| Show WHICH IS HOTTEST PLACE Yuma Ariz and Needles Cal Where Thermometer Dally Daily Reaches Mark Given Honor New York With With the advent of hot bot weather the old controversy between Yuma and Needles the first In Arizona Arizona Ariz Ariz- Arizona ona ona and the other In California as to which Is the hottest place In the United Uni ted States has bas been revived Neither is clamoring for the distinction oh oh no each is striving tl to thrust it upon the other As a matter of fact the difference Is so 60 slight that it Isn't worth quarreling about From now on until late In September Septem ber t the e mercury will climb cUmb up in the I I IF C F Hotel at Needles Cal tube until It reaches the mark nearly every day In both places and there are weeks at a stretch when It never falls Calls below even at night One can cook eggs hard by simply burying them in the hot sand The Mojave Indians of the lower valley of the Colorado river always go barefoot and the hot bot sands and stones have calloused calloused cal cal- loused their feet until they ther are as ashard ashard ashard hard and as insensible to pain as the hoofs of a horse they can walk through fire and trample red hot coals without flinching The extreme heat Is due to the low altitude combined with the proximity of the Colorado and Mojave deserts For 1000 miles on the east and on the north and west stretches a a waste of sand and cacti With every mile traversed by the tho winds they gather gath gath- er heat so that a cooling breeze from rom any direction is an Impossibility The man nian man that traverses the deserts doesn't wonder that Yuma and Needles are hot He only wonders that they are not white hot hott Persons who can stand the excessive save sive heat beat find Needles and Yuma health resort adapted to the cure of consumption bronchitis and rheumatism However most peo pie would consider the disease more tolerable than the cure A year ago a pretentious hotel was built at Needles for Cor the purpose of exploiting the place as a winter re reo sort It is all an right In winter time but in the summer months New Yorks York's tenement districts are are cool and delightful delightful de de- de in comparison Electric fans are installed in the hotel In every room and corridor and wide balconies protect every apartment from ever receiving the direct rays of the sun At nights guests pull pun their beds out outon outon outon on the corridors but neither science nor Ingenuity has devised a way of making malting life me tolerable in Needles in summer time |
