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wd by mail direct. 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. 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 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 magazine assumes any responsibility beyond the moral one of trying to do the best that is possible. chosen by us not only for their knowledge and experience but for their integrity and reliability. These experts have been We have emphatically assured each of them that his advice or information is not to be affected in any way by whether a given commodity is or is not advertised in this magazine. 1. Service free to anybody, provided stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. Corre- spondents writing to or from foreign countries will please enclose International! 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 field covers it. He will reply by mail. Do NOT send questions to this magazine. 3. Noreply will be made to requests for partners, for financial backing, or for chances to join expeditions. no sense an employment bureau. 4. Make your questions definite and specific. Explain your case sufficiently to guide the expert you question. and intentions. 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 in State exactly your wants, qualifications 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. DINGLE, Hamilton, Bermuda. Islands of Indian and Atlantic oceans; the Mediterranean; Cape Hern and Magellan Straits. Ports, trade, peoples, travel. (Postage 5 cents.) 2. The Sea Part 1 BERIAH Brown. Seattle Press Club, 1209 Fifth Ave., Seattle, Wash. Covering ships, seamen and shipping; nautical history, seamanship, navigation, yachting; com- mercial fisheries of North America; marine bibliography of U. S.: seafaring on 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. DINGLE, Hamilton, Bermuda. Such questions as pertain to the sea, ships and men local to the British Empire should be sent to] Captain Dingle, not Mr. Brown. (Postage 5 cents.) 4. Eastern U. S. Part 1 : RAYMOND S. SPEARS, Little Falls, N. Y. Covering Missis- sippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan and Hudson valleys; Great Lakes, Adirondacks, Chesapealze Bay; river, lake and road travel, game, fish and woodcraft; furs, fresh- water pearls, herbs; and their markets. 5. Eastern U. S. Part 2 Hapssurc LIesBeE, Orlando, Florida. Covering Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and N.andS. Carolina, Florida and Georgia except Tennessee River fand Atlantic seaboard. Hunting, fishing, camping; logging, lumbering, sawmill- ing, saws. 6. Eastern U. S. Part 3 Dr. G. E. HATHORNE, 44 Central Street, Bangor, Maine. Covering Maine; fishing, hunting, canoeing, guides, outfits, supplies. 7. Middle Western U.S. Part 1 JosEPH MILLS HANSON (lately Capt. A. E. F.), care Adven- ture. Covering the Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas. Hunting, fishing, travel. Early history of Missouri Valley. 8. Middle Western U. S._ Part 2 : JOHN THOMPSON, 906 Pontiac Bldg., Chicago, III. Covering Missouri, Arkansas and the Missouri Valley up to Sioux City, Iowa. Wilder countries of the Ozarks, and swamps; hunting, fishing, trapping, farming, mining and range lands; big timber se t‘ons. 9. Middle Western U. S. Part 3 Larry St. JoHN, Melbourne Beach, Fla. Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Lake Michigan. Fishing, hunting, trapping, lumbering, Canoeing, camping, guides, outfits, motoring, agriculture, minerals, natural history, clamming, early history, legends. 10._. Western U. S. Part 1 E. E. HARRIMAN, 2303 W. 23d St., Los Angeles, Calif. Cover- ing California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Arizona. Game, fur, fish; camp, cabin; mines, minerals; mountains. ll. Western U.S. Part 2 and Mexico Part1 Northern J. W. WHITEAKER, 1505 W. roth St., Austin, Tex. Cover- ing Texas, Oklahoma. and the border States of old Mexico; Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila. Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. Minerals, lumbering, agriculture, travel, customs, topog- raphy, climate, natives, hunting, history, industries. . 12. Mexico Part 2 Southern: and Lower California C. R. MAHAFFEY, Lista de Correos, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mex- ico. Covering Lower California and that part of Mexico lying south of a line drawn from Tampico to Mazatlan. Mining, agriculture, topography, travel, hunting, lumbering, history, natives, commerce, business and general conditions. Covering & (Enclose addressed envelope with 5 cents in stamps NOT attached) Returs postage not required from U. S. or Canad'an soldiers, sailors or marines tn service outside the U. S., sts possessions, or Canada. 185 CO MICLOOOKS C©