Adventure Magazine Cover, August 18, 1921 — page 192: 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. Peer “2 AY pin mt eae expert in charge of the section in whose field it falls. So that service may be as prompt as possible, he will answer you 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 may 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 sections 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. These experts have been chosen by us not only for their knowledge and experience but with an eye to their integrity and reliability. We have emphatically assured each of them that his advice or information is not to be affected in any Oh esoest in should be sent, not to this office, but direct to the way by whether a given commodity is or is not advertised in this magazine. 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 Send each question direct to the expert in charge of the particular department whose Do NOT send questions to this magazine. No reply will be made to requests for partners, for financial backing, or for chances to ‘‘Ask Adventure’’ covers business and work opportunities, but only It is in State exactly your wants, qualifications Explain your case sufficiently to guide the expert you question. 1. any country in the International Postal Union. 2. field covers it. He will reply by mail. > 3. . join expeditions. if they are outdoor activities, and only in the way of general data and advice. no sense an employment bureau. 4. Make your questions definite and specific. and intentions. 5, Send no question until you have read very carefully the exact ground covered by the particular expert in whose section it seems to belong. 1. & Islands and Coasts CapTAIN A. E. DINGLE, Hamilton, Bermuda. Islands of Indian and Atlantic oceans; the Mediterranean; Cape Horn and Magellan Straits. Ports, trade, peoples, travel. (Postage § cents.) 2. The Sea Part 1 BERIAH Brown, Seattle Press Club, 1209 Fifth Ave., Seattle, Wash. Ships, seamen and shipping; nautical his- tory, seamanship, navigation, yachting, small-boat sailing; commercial fisheries of North America; marine bibliography of U. S.; fishing-vessels of the North Atlantic and Pacific banks. (See next department.) 3. & The Sea Part 2 : Captain A. E. DINGLE, Hamilton, Bermuda. Questions on the sea, ships and men local to the British Empire go to Captain Dingle, not Mr. Brown. (Postage 5 cents.) 4. Eastern U. S. Part 1 : RaAyYMmonp S. SPEARS, Little Falls, N. Y. Mississippi, 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. 5. Eastern U. S. Part 2 HapsBurG LIEBE, Orlando, Fla. Tennessee, Alabama, Miss- issippi, N. and S. Carolina, Florida and Georgia except Ten- nessee River and Atlantic seaboard. Hunting, fishing, camping; logging, lumbering, sawmilling, saws. 6. Eastern U. S. Part 3 Dr. G. E. HATHORNE, 44 Central Street, Bangor, Me. Maine. Fishing, hunting, canoeing, guides, outfits, supplies. 7. Middle Western U.S. Part 1 JosePpH MILLs HANSON (lately Capt. A. E. F.), care Adven- ture. The Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas. Hunting, fishing, travel. Early history of Missouri Valley. 8. Middle Western U.S. Part 2 JOHN B. THOMPSON, 906 Pontiac Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Mis- souri, Arkansas and the Missouri Valley up to Sioux City, Iowa. Wilder countries of the Ozarks, and swamps; hunt- ing, fishing, trapping, farming, mining and range lands; big- timber sections. 9. Middle Western U. S. Part 3 LARRY ST. JOHN, Saugatuck, Mich. Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Lake Michigan. Fishing, hunting, trapping, lumbering, canoeing, camping, guides, outfits, motoring, agriculture, minerals, natural his- tory, clamming, early history, legends. 10. Western U. S. Part 1 E. E. HARRIMAN, 2303 W. 23rd St., Los Angeles, Calif. California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Arizona. Game, fur, fish; camp, cabin; mines, minerals; mountains. 11. Western U. S. Part 2 and Mexico Part1 Northern J. W. WHITEAKER, 1505 West roth St., Austin, Tex. 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, Apartado 168, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mex- ico. Lower California; Mexico south of a line from Tampico to Mazatlan. Mining, agriculture, topography, travel, hunting, lumbering, history, nagives, business and general conditions. (Postage 5 cents.) 13. +« North American Snow Countries Part 1 S. E. SANGSTER (‘‘Canuck’’), L. B. 393, Ottawa, Canada. Height of Land and northern Quebec and Ontario (except strip between Minn. and C. P. R’y); southeastern Ungava % (Enclose addressed envelope with 5 cents in stamps NOT attached) (Enclose addressed envelope with 3 cents in stamps NOT attached) 186 © CloOOOLKKS CO 5}