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Show HOTTEST PLACE In America Is Yuma, Where the Sun Burns Out Men's Eyes. The Journcj tij roll from t.os Angeles, Ange-les, fill , 10 riioenix, Ariz , these midsummer mid-summer daja la without doubt the hot-Hat hot-Hat nnjvvherv In tho cuumij I'loin the moment tho traveler ctosses the Sli ruin at llnnnlng. Oil , und drops down the eastern slope of tho mountains, moun-tains, ho Hilda a temperaluie th it Is seldom bi low 10& degrtes In the shnde un.l often neater 1 dcgries l-everil times leiently the lempeia-turo lempeia-turo In the 1 irs whlio crofsiiiK tho Colorado und Mnrlrc.pa deserts has beui tven l.'l degrees. Trom June Jrd to Jul) 4th the average dally tempera-tine tempera-tine nt stations nn the desert alone tho rallrond wus UJ degrees, nnd the old-llmera said Ihut the sun hid not l begun to get down to ,11 live business busi-ness In nil this region itma Is acknowledged acknowl-edged 10 he the burner hot town of America The wrltei observed the imiuirv In the. mo. inters at Yuma the other ililj wllh Ihietcst At 3 i in the metcury stood nt 117 digr.is In the shndi of a wl.lo pnuh At J It registered 111 degrees and nt .140 It wan nt l.'i) d. grees That was the highest notch for tho day At I SO the nterrur) wus baik nt US, and at 6 It vvns down to 116, and ftom tint hour until : n in It fell every hour until It stopped at lav Then the Vutnn people went lu bed on cots lu the dnarjnrds and on piazzas to tnke ndvnntngc of the cool night for slumber slum-ber This Is a fair sample of ihe weather In Yuma nnd southern Ailzona towns from tho middle of June until every I October Oei iBlonall) tho temperature I will ilso to 1J1 un.l ien lo 127 degrees und theio hao been 11 few seasons I when foi sixteen or eighteen daja ut n jstretih the tempeinture 111 Yuma has 1, 11. god f 1 urn 111 10 126 I Ilxperlencc has taught people living In thi.' region to give heed to their diet onl) the simplest foods mu be eater, wllh Inipunlt) Melons, coin, fiulls and ci reals eumprlse the food nf tin. wlso ones All manner of Mexican dishes and roups nre popular Nil one who has never experienced It run have un ude.unto Idea of what sue h heat means Miny a soldier of ihe rrgulnr 111 my la now draw Ing 11 pension for total blindness tauscd by fining tho frightful Blare nf the sun und the nwful hcut from the desut while serving In nn Arizona garrison The wulls of the buildings arc us wurm as If they were about ovens. The railroad men handle coupling links nnd pins only with liathern mittens 1'iesslng ones hind ngnlnst a window pnne Is like tnuchlr.fr a hot plate New ork bun |
