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190 below minus 5 degrees. The nights in Summer are invariably cool. In general the temperature may be classed as mild at all seasons of the year, extremes either of cold or heat being the exception. So I would advise you to take along just an ordinary camping outfit and your mining equipment and your fishing and hunting outfits, as the Bitter-Root Mountains are widely known for their unsurpassed beauty and as a recreation ground for hunters and fishermen. The north fork and its tributaries are among the best trout streams of the Northwest. Deer, elk, mountain goat, moose and bear frequent the higher ranges. = If you are going via auto, a good route is wa the Yellowstone Trail and National Parks highways up around Missoula and the Coeur d’Alenes and down to Lewiston, and if you are going va rail you can go direct to Lewiston, by which place you strike the north fork; or go to Hamilton, Mont., and cut across the mountains. These places can both be reached via Northern Pacific Ry. Apply at library at Lewiston or Orofino to see U. S. Geological maps. Call at the Continental Oil Co’s office, or at one of their service stations, for a large folder map of blazed trails in Idaho. The Bahamas “VV HERE every prospect pleases ——” Question:—“T’m planning a trip to the Bahama Islands, and would like some information regarding same. What temperature could one expect? Do you need a passport? If so where would I procure same? Could a white man get employ- ment at Nassau, the capital city? What would be the best way to get there from Norfolk? Please withhold name in case of publica- tion.” —P. S., So. Norfolk, Va. Answer, by Capt. Dingle:-—The average general temperature of the Bahamas is around 70 degrees in Winter. It gets hotter in Summer. There is a rainy season from June to October. Find out about passports either by writing to your Secretary of State, Washington, or applying at any tourist agency, Cook’s for example. Such an agency would be able to tell you about route, too. The nearest way I know of is for you to travel by train either to New York or Miami, then take steamer. Miami would be my choice, J think. I don’t know what you can do, so can not advise you about getting employment. If you ever ex- pect lucid advice on that subject, never merely ask— “Can a white man get employment there?” If you are a railroad man there are no railroads. If you are a store clerk you may find work which will give you a living. If you have capital, expect to take up land and settle as a cultivator, there are openings. Otherwise I think your only way of finding out is to go down and see. Nassau is choked with men now, and even negroes leave their jobs to get knee-deep in the liquor business. Prohibition in the United States has bred a nest of nastiness in these charming islands. Nassau is full of Americans, not of the best sort, and all seem prosperous. Perhaps you might well take the trip on chance. You would scarcely lose. Adventure Orange Culture in Florida ee per cent. a year return on your equity in a grove: Question: —“I am thinking of retiring from in- door work. Have about $10,000. I want to find some good place to live where there is a lot of fishing, and have a few acres of good land to raise part of my living. Could you give me some good location of this kind where it is healthy for a Northern man? I always had an idea that most of Florida was rather unhealthy. If published please do not use name.”— ——- ——, Asotin, Wash. Answer, by Mr. Liebe:—First let me tell you that Florida is not an unhealthful place to live so long as one drinks good water, keeps away from the swamps and mosquitoes and observes the average laws of health. Our record is probably better than that of any other State in the Union as concerns health; and one should take into account the fact that many people come down here at the last minute to die. To me Florida is a paradise. As I see it, after five years down here, the best bet for making a sure living here, and an easy living, is in oranges. If I had $10,000 and wanted to get on “Easy Street” I would buy ten acres of grove that was either bearing or about ready to bear, and pay $5,000 down on it, which can be done. This grove should net you about $3,000 per annum; you sell the fruit on the trees, and don’t have to pick it. You can pay 1,000 per year on your indebtedness of $5,000 and have left $2,000 to live on. The $5,000 you kept out of your original $10,000 you can do as you please with, but my advice would be to put it into something absolutely safe as an investment. Then if we have a killing freeze, which comes once in every ten to fifty years, you can start all over again, whereas a man with no resources would be broken up. Our last big freeze was in 1895. I know one man who bought 100 acres of frozen groves, budded them from the root, which was not killed, and now is worth half a million or more. As for a good place to live, I recommend Orlando in Orange County, Eustis in Lake County or Lakeland in Polk County. These are the best orange and grapefruit counties we have, the best towns we have, and are in the fresh-water lakes region, where there is any amount of fishing for such fish as bass and pickerel. Now let me sound a warning. If you buy a grove, be sure the trees are the right kind as to budding stock, that they are not diseased in any way and that they are on the right kind of ground. Worthless ground often lies close to good land, and it is easy to be deceived. You should get next to the citrus-fruit game in regard to the above before you put money into it. Make every possible in- vestigation, and don’t accept the first price that is offered you; they'll all come down more or less from the first price. If you get down into my section and there is any- thing further I can do for you, let me know. The ten-cent stamp you sent is not necessary, and I am returning it herewith. P.S. In saying above, ‘Something absolutely safe as an investment,”’ J mean something on the order of Government bonds, nothing less. IOOOLK (C@