Adventure, August 1917 — page 190: what you’re looking at

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188 Salvador, Guatemala. Travel, customs, language, game, local conditions, minerals, trading. 17. The Balkans ARTHUR D. HowpEN SmiTH, Evening Post, 20 Vesey St., New York City. Covering Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Turkey (in Europe); travel, sport,customs, language, local conditions,markets, industries. 18. Asia, Southern GorDON McCreEaacu, care R. J. Neuman, 160 Seaman Ave., Inwood, New York City. Covering Red Sea, Persian Gulf, India, Tibet, Burma, Western China, Siam, Andamans, HM aley States, Borneo, the Treaty Ports; hunting, trading, raveling. 19. Japan and Korea : ROBERT WELLES RITCHIE, Mountain Lakes, N. J. Cover- ing travel, hunting, customs of people, art and curios. 20. Russia and Eastern Siberia A. M. LocHwitzky (Lieut.-Col. I. R. A., Ret.), Adventurers’ Club, 26 N. Dearborn St., Chicago. Covering Petrograd and {ts province; Finland, Northern Caucasus; Primorsk Dis- trict, Island of Sakhalin; travel, hunting, fishing; explora- tions among native tribes; markets, trade, curios. 21. Africa Part1 THOMAS S. MILLER, 1604 Chapin Ave., Burlingame, Calif. Covering the Gold, Ivory and Fever Coasts of West Africa, the Niger River from the delta to Jebba, Northern Nigeria. Canoeing, labor, trails, trade, expenses, outfitting, flora; tribal histories, witchcraft, savagery. 22. Africa Part 2 GEORGE E. HO tT, Castle View, Meriden, Conn. Morocco; travel, tribes, customs, history, etc. Covering Adventure 23. ** The South Seas Part 1 Tom L. MILLs, The Feilding Star, Feilding, New Zealand. Covering New Zealand, Cook Islands and Samoa. Travel, history, customs; opportunities for adventurers, explorers and sportsmen. STANDING INFORMATION For general information on U. S. and its possessions, write Sup’t of Public Documents, Wash., D. C., for catalog of ail Government publications. For the Philippines and Porto Rico, the Bureau of Insu- lar Affairs, War Dep't, Wash., D. C. For Alaska, the Alaska Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, Central Bldg., Seattle, Wash. For Hawaii, Hawaii Promotion Committee, Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, H.I. Also, Dep't of the Interior, Wash., D.C. For Cuba, Bureau of Information, Dep't of Agri., Com., and Labor, Havana, Cuba. For Central and South America, John Barrett, Dir. Gen., Pan-American Union, Wash., D. C. For R. N. W. M. P., Comptroller Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Ottawa, Can., or Commissioner, R. N. W. M. P., Regina, Sask. Only unmarried British subjects, age 22 to 30, above 5 ft. 8 in. and under 175 lbs., accepted. For Canal Zone, the Panama Canal, Wash., D. C. For U. S., its possessions and most foreign countries, the Dep't of Com., Wash., D. C. ¥% (Enclose addressed envelope with 3 cents NOT attached) California Homesteading Question: —“Would like information regarding California and Oregon, especially Trinity County, California. Can one get homestead land that is any good there and make a living hunting and trapping? What is the principal game and what are the fur- bearing animals? Can one get work in the Summer in the mines, and what is the scale of wages? I have a friend who is consumptive. How would the climate agree with him? What caliber rifle would you advise one to take? Where can I obtain a reliable book on trapping? I have had considerable experience trapping small animals but none with the larger ones.” —J. W. VINING, Webb City, Mo. Answer, by Mr. Harriman:—Trinity County, California, about which you ask specifically, is almost all mountains. It is heavily wooded, the standing timber being estimated by government experts to have a value of thirty million dollars. About eleven billion feet, board measure. The county varies from 450 feet elevation to 9,000. In the last fifty years it has yielded one hun- dres million dollars in minerals and has many de- posits of gold, cinnabar, copper, platinum and asbestos still unworked. Homestead claims may be taken up and school land bought at $1.25 an acre. There are only 2,500 people in the County. It is full of good apple land, many mountain benches that run from one acre to two hundred being excellent for apples. But you must remember that as yet trans- portation is limited, for the major portion of the county, to pack-mules. It is excellent land for cattle-raising and the Government is charging only 56 cents a year for grazing cattle, 70 for horses, 34 for hogs, 14 for sheep and goats. The land open for homesteading is heavily- wooded and any one can get from the federal offi- cials the Government test of the soil, so he may know just what the land is good for. The scale of wages in the mines runs from $3 up. Other em- ployment is limited to road-building, lumbering on forest reserve sales, and fighting occasional fires in the forest. The Trinity Forest is one of the best game sec- tions in the land. Hayfork Mountain, which is forty miles long and from four to six thousand feet high, contributing eleven hundred deer to sports- . men in 1915. Black bear are abundant in some parts. Mink swarm along the streams when salmon are running. Coyotes are thick, too thick, and in an adjoining county the officials have raised the bounty to $20 for females, $7 for males, and $3 for pups. The old bounty prevails in Trinity. Wildcats, lynx, (the rufous), mountain lions or panther, civet cats, skunk, polecat, and some other small fur animals are common. The trappers of Trinity count on about $1,200 to $1,800 per annum as their catch. Small game such as squirrels, rab- bits, grouse, quail, are plentiful, and the lakes and streams are filled with trout. The salmon cram some streams yearly followed by the steelhead in great numbers. Water-birds are plentiful on the lakes. Regarding your consumptive friend, I have a friend who spends his time, all except the three wettest months, at Hyampom. He was consump- tive; he now is free from it. Care against wetting and colds, living outdoors, eating a plenty of nour- ishing food, and guarding against overexertion, he would do as well there as anywhere. My rifle is a Winchester 32—40 and it is all I care to have, but men who like the high-powered guns and hunt here are given to the use of the 25—35, the 250—3000 Savage and such small-calibered guns. A small bore is ‘he gun par excellence, now. I would not buy anything more than .32 for myself, as that will take care of a grizzly, with the proper powder charge behind it. But it had better be high, rather than low, pressure, for the sake of speed, CoOMmiclsoo CO