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158 The ordinary immigrant is usually taken care of at our well-conducted Immigration Department here, where he is looked after and where jobs are found for him. In your case, however, it will really be necessary for you to personally canvas the field as it would all depend on your personality and ability. The country is growing rapidly and times generally are good. Therefore I think you should have no difficulty in securing a position that would be satis- factory to you. The cost of living is increasing here as everywhere else, but is not quite as high as in U.S.A. Rents are high in Sydney, but not so bad in other centers. Here you would have to expect to pay 25/ to £2 per week for an ordinary villa of from four to six rooms, according to locality. Flats are very ex- pensive, but if you are prepared to live a little way ~ out of the city, or in the country, you could be ac- commodated very cheaply. Our cities are growing outward, and transporta- tion facilities:are becoming better ‘all the time, and as rentals have increased so much in and near the cities people are taking to living some distance out so as to secure the benefit of the lower. rentals and the healthier life. Our railways, which are owned by the government, are considerate of the suburban dwellers, and you can get commutation tickets on’ the railway very reasonably. You can journey to suburbs about 15 to 20 miles from the city at from 3] to 4/ per week. I certainly would advise you to sell your furniture and buy again over here as we possess many fur- niture factories and are turning out household re- ' quirements at about the same price as you would pay in America or Canada. Ii you desire to buy a house or bungalow of about five rooms as you suggest you would have to expect to pay from £750 to £1,000 according to locality, and even more than this if you desire to live in one of the more fashionable sections of the city. All our _ best bungalows are built of brick, which we find to be the most suited to this climate as it provides warmth in the Winter and coolness in the Summer. However, they are now going in for the half-brick, half-wooden structures such as you find in California; and in the working man’s suburbs the homes are built almost entirely of weather-board. The price of all building material has gone up very greatly of late, and building is becoming so expen- sive that it is really wisest to look for the best chance of buying a ready-made home, which you can secure on easy terms, the usual arrangements being ten per cent. deposit and the balance over a long term of years. I can quite appreciate your desire to change from Alberta to Australia. I spent a short time in Western Canada and am not anxious to go there again; not because I do not appreciate the attrac- tion of the country and its great possibilities, but because I found the cold most trying. In Australia we never have to suffer from the climate in any way. Wespeak of the weather in the usual formal manner, but we are never really seriously inconvenienced by the changes of climate. Put at least five cents postage on all let- ters addressed to Ask Adventure editors who live outside the U. S. Always enclose at least five cents in International Reply coupons for answer. Adventure A Vacation Trapping Trip HE auto-truck seems to have been added to the shanty-boat as an aid to the footloose trapper, judging by the subjoined brace of letters: Question: —“Thank you very much for your kind letter. I don’t care so much for adventure but I want to take a vacation of some sixty days about October first and I can not content myself loafing nor hunting or fishing for any lengthof time. Trap- ping is about all I’ve ever done during vacation. I do not expect to get a thousand dollars’ worth of fur, but if I can only catch enough to pay the ex- pense of our trip we will be satisfied. Would like to have found a location where we could get some skunk, mink, muskrats. Have you ever been down on the Humboldt River in Nevada? Thought some of going in near Winnemucca and going up the Little Humboldt and then work back again. I want to get out where we will be alone in an uninhabited part, it Ican. If any muskrats or mink I can get my Four years ago an old trapper and sacl trapped a river up in Wisconsin. Were gone three weeks and caught five hundred and forty muskrats and ran through thirteen sets of other trappers; but we could not do it now as there is a trap about every rod the whole length of the river. Only way to get fur now is to get away back where other fellows don’t care to Could a man run a boat and carry his camp and supplies on the Green or Humboldt Rivers? What material can he get for fuelP How about drinking and cooking water? Is any to be had through that country or is it all bad water? Possibly you can tell me more than any one else. If you write to residents they often say trapping is good when the facts in the case are that a man possibly catches eighteen or twenty muskrats in a season. Others say no good when there would be plenty for a man who knows the business. Kindly inform me as best you can. No hurry about it; any time you get spare time.”—C. C. NOLPr, Orangeville, Ul. Answer, by Mr. Spears:—They told me there is good trapping here and there all through that Nevada genes Water is scarce. We got the rankest of alkalis right there at Green River op- posite Vernal. Get U. S. Topographical Survey Index sheets, Director U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C., and get maps of the Duchesne country— showing mountains, etc. The Wasatch Mountains hit my eye, I sure wanted to go to Mt. Gilbert— timber up there, great fishing, not much fur, but good fur up there. Two days’ travel to the moun- tains from the river valley, toward the south. Right through there, wolves right bad. Nevada is just desert valley and desert mountains. We saw trappers that called Nevada fine—two lads in auto—$3,000 last Winter coming from Utah to southern California, in a Ford outfit. You’d do better in a little Ford truck outfit, wandering around ae there prospecting, than taking any man’s word or it. I believe there’s good trapping in that back country of Nevada, Utah, Western Colorado. I saw tracks—muskrats; not plenty, though. For COPMICGLOOO KS at