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# The Hollow Tree — A Pen Pal Column This page shows the masthead and introductory text for "The Hollow Tree," a correspondence column conducted by Helen Rivers. The column facilitates letter exchanges between readers seeking friends and correspondents in different regions. Below the column guidelines appears the first reader letter, from a self-described "Cassiar Sourdough" with fifteen years of Alaskan experience, seeking four men aged forty-five to fifty-five to join him in prospecting for gold in the Cassiar and Stikine River country of British Columbia. The letter emphasizes the region's abundant wildlife and mineral resources.
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