Adventure, July 1, 1928 — page 194: what you’re looking at

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ASK Z is Liat |V Weae ? eS ey ee For free information and services you can’t get elsewhere Alaska HE Copper River region offers ex- cellent prosptcts for good fishing and big game hunting. Request:—“About June 1, 1928, my brother and I intend to go to Alaska for about a two year stay for an outing. We would like to go inland about fifty miles to a place where we could enjoy hunting and fishing, Will you please furnish us with in- formation as to the best part of Alaska for this purpose, also as to equipment required for a trip of that duration; also about what the cost of the trip would be for clothing, arms and food supplies.” —GEO, CARTER, San Quentin, Calif: Reply, by Mr. Theodore S. Solomons:—There are so many, many places fifty miles or so from the coast where you would have ideal conditions that I hesitate to select any. Also the great Yukon Valley is pretty attractive, with mighty good hunting and fishing. You might say most anywhere. The big hunting region most people know about is the Alaskan Peninsula, Kodiak Island and Kenai Peninsula, and also around Prince William Sound and the Copper River. You get plenty of big game around there and big bear especially. But you'd have to employ a guide some of those places and you probably don’t want to be bothered. It would cost you a great deal more to go into the Yukon, not only in transportation up there but in groceries and such afterwards. Chicle ROM the bush of far off Guatemala comes the principle of one of our favorite vices. Request:—“Will you tell me about chicle? How is it obtained? Are the natives of Central America the ones that made it into a commercial product?” —ROSE CHEW, Los Gatos, Calif. Reply, by Mr. Charles Bell Emerson:—Chicle, also called balta, the crude basis of chewing gum, is obtained from the forests of Peten District, in Guatemala. Balta is the dried juice or gum of the bullet or bully-tree, used for insulating wires, ete. It is the gum chicle of the bully-tree juice that is used in chewing gum manufacture, and also as a substitute for gutta-percha. The chicle is put up in bales weighing from 100 to 150 Ibs. each, making ‘a bundle.about the size of the cakes of artificial ice as sold in the cities of the United States. The milk of the chico-sapote or sapodilla tree, 188 comnliclooolks.com