Adventure, August 3, 1919 — page 197: what you’re looking at

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A Free Question and Answer Service Bureau of Infor- mation on Outdoor Life and Activities Everywhere and Upon the Various Commodities Required Therein. Con- ducted for Adventure Magazine by Our Staff of Experts. Aeron UESTIONS should be sent, not to this office, but direct to the expert in charge of the department in whose field it falls, So that service may be as prompt as possible, he will answer you Z by mail direct. But he will also send to us a copy of each question and answer, and from these we shall select those of most general interest and publish them each issue in this department, thus making it itself an exceedingly valuable standing source of practical information. Unless otherwise requested, inquirer’s name and town are printed with question; street numbers not given. When you ask for general information on a given district or subject the expert will probably give you some valuable general pointers and ' refer you to books or to local or special sources of information. . Our experts will in all cases answer to the best of their ability, using : their own discretion in all matters pertaining to their departments subject only to our general rules for ‘““Ask Adventure,’”’ but neither they nor the magaziné assumes any responsibility beyond the moral one of trying to do the best that is possible. These experts have been , chosen by us not only for their knowledge and experience but for their integrity and reliability. We have emphatically assured each of them that his advice or information is not to be affected in any way by ou whether a given commodity is or is not advertised in this magazine. 1. Service free to anybody, provided stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. Correspondents writing to or from foreign coyntries will please enclose Inter- national Reply Coupons, purchasable at any post-office, and exchangeable for stamps of any country in the International Postal Union. 2. Send each question direct to the expert in charge of the particular department whose <7 field covers it. He will reply by mail. Do NOT send questions to this magazine. 3. No reply will be made to requests for partners, for financial backing, or for chances to join expeditions. ‘‘Ask Adventure’’ covers business and work opportunities, but only if they are outdoor activities, and only in the way of general data and advice. It is f2 NO sense an employment bureau. 4. Make your questions definite and specific. State exactly your wants, qualifications and intentions. Explain your case sufficiently to guide the expert you question. 5. Send no question until you have read very carefully the exact ground covered by the particular expert in whose department it seems to belong. 1. % Islands and Coasts Captain A. E. Dincre, Cove Cottage, Pembroke West, Bermuda. Islands of Indian and Atlantic oceans; the Mediterranean; Cape Horn and Magellan Straits. Ports, trade, peoples, travel. 2. TheSea Part) Covering Maine; fishing, hunting, canoeing, guides, outfits, supplies. 7. Middle Western U.S. Part1 . . Capt.-Ab}. JosEPH Mitts Hanson, care Adventure. Cov- ’ ering the Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas. Hunting, fishing, travel. Especially carly history of Missouri valley. B. W. BRINTNALL, 5527 Thirty-third Ave., N. E., Seattle, Wash. Covering ships, seamen and shipping; nautical his- tory, seamanship, navigation, yachting; commercial fish- eries of North America; marine bibliography of U. S. and British Empire; seafaring om fishing-vessels of the North Atlantic and Pacific banks, small-boat sailing, and old-time shipping and seafaring. 3. % The Sea Part 2 Captain A. BE. Diners, Cove Cottage, Pembroke West. Bermuda, Such questions as pertain to the sea, ships and men local to the U.S. should be sent to Captain Pine: not Mr. Brnntnall. 4. Eastern U.S. Part 1 Raymond 8. Spears, Little Falls, N, Y. Covering Missis- sippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan and Hudson valleys; Great Lakes, Adirondacks, Chesapeake Bay; river, lake and road travel, game, fish and woodcraft; furs, fresh- water pearls, herbs; and their markets. §. Eastern U.S. Part 2 Harsgurc Lrgee, Orlando, Fla. Covering Tennessee, Alabama, souinyer, ? and N. and S, Carolina, Florida and corgia except Tennessee River and Atlantic seaboard. Hunting, fishing, camping; logging, lumbering, sawmill- ing, saws, 6. Eastern U.S. Part3 Dr. G. E, Hatnorne, 44 Central Street, Bangor, Maine. (Enclose addressed envelope with Return postage not required from U.S. or Canadian soldiers sls Dossessions, or Canada. 187 8 Middle Western U.S. Part 2 JouN B, Tuompson, P. O. Box 1374, St. Louis, Ma. Covering Missouri, Atkansas and the Missouri Valley up to Sioux City, Iowa. Wilder countnes of the Ozarks, and swamps; hunting, fishing, trapping, farmimg, mining and range lands; big timber sections. 9. Western U.S. Part1 E. E.. HARRIMAN, 2303 W. 23d St., Los Angeles, Calif, Cover- ing Califémia, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Arizona. Game, fur, fish; camp, cabin; mines, mi 5 mountains. 10. Western U.S. Part 2 and Mexico Part 1 (Editor to be ointel) Covering Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and the border states of old Mexico: Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. ll, Mexico Part2 Southern EpGar YOuNG, 84 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Covering that part of Mexico lying south of a line drawn from T'am- pico to Mazatlan, Minus agriculture, topography, travel, hunting, lumbering, history, natives, commerce. 12. North American Snow Countries Part 1 Rayaonp S, Spears, Little Falls, N.Y. Covering Min- nesota, Wisconsin. Hunting, fishing, trapping. Canoesand snow-shoes; methods and materials of Summer and Winter subsistence, shelter and travel, for recreation or business. 5 cents in coin NOT stamps) , Sailors or marines im service outside the U. S., Ecomicbooks.con