Adventure Magazine, April 10, 1924 — page 193: what you’re looking at

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Lost he traveled over could be called his ranch, for his stock was on it. Hope that this dope will be of help to you in winning your argument. Enclosed is a monograph on Tezas. look that over. Let them Bicycle Touring in the United States WO and a half million miles of good highway: Question: —“T am or was an enthusiastic hiker; but last Fall I took a bicycle trip through Indiana and Kentucky, and now I don’t like hiking so well. What I want to know is this: Is it feasible and possible to take a bicycle trip through Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas? If one wished could he continue on into California? I wish to start about September ist. Would one encounter good or bad roads? Also if I wished to continue on the road would it be possible to earn my way at this time of year? For long trips is bicycle touring preferable to hiking?”—Harry Atvis, West Liberty, Ill. Answer, by Mr. Spears:—Whether one goes hiking or bicycling is almost wholly a question of choice. I have done both, and am astonished that more do not go touring on bicycles. There are some 2,500,000 miles of highway in the United States, including streets. Concrete, macadam, and wonderiul dirt roads are available clear to the Rockies. Grades are now easy. Compared to the bicycle irails I followed, bicycle tripping would be easy now. You would find a trip through Missouri, Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma somewhat diflicult on account of mud and rutted roads. The western regions of Texas could be traversed, subject always to desert conditions and rain in the central part. But I should say if you went across Missouri, down through Little Rock, Ark., and into Ft. Worth, Tex., you would be stopped by mud. My choice would be across Lowa on the Lincoln, south from Omaha across Kansas and central Oklahoma, through It. Worth and on the Bankhead Highway to El Paso-——a won- derful trip with hundreds of miles of desert that is "Frails I9gI dangerous if not prepared for, with water and fore- sight as to trails, conditions, etc. Highways lead to California from El Paso or ¢7u Amarillo and the Sante Fé Trail. You should have a good map of the trails of the country—Sectionized Map of U. S., published by the National Survey, Chester, Vt., is one of the best convenient books. I went to Texas by mine: As to earning your way—that depends. Work is ie be had here and there. I enclose a slip. Cood uck. Whales Biseest animals that ever lived: Question: —‘‘Have heard so much about how large an article a whale can swallow, but doubt some of these stories, so would like to have you explain this if it’s in your line. Also give me some idea of their weight, and about how they spawn. Has the whale any enemies ip the d:cp sca? En- closed find postage.” —FRANK NOLL, f'rankfort, So. Dak. Answer, by Capt. Dingle:—The Greenland whale has a small gullet. It can swallow only small ob- jects. But the sperm-whale, or cachalot, has an enormous throat, easily big enough to swallow lumps of deep-sea squid weighing upward of sixty pounds. There is little difference in the respective size of these two species of whales. Of course there is a vast difference in the size of individual whales of either species. Take a range between thirty tons and a hundred tons, and you will find most whales come'within these limits, although my father, one of the old-school whalers out of Peterhead, told me he had cut in a sperm-whale registering a hundred and twenty tons. A whale does not spawn. Whales are not fish nor reptiles, but animals. They bring forth calves as Jand cows do, and suckle them at the breast. As for enemies, there is the thresher whale, which gang together and licks Mr. Whale—sometimes—and the eiant squid, which the whale eats. The whale is a whale of a survivor against all but man. therefor. 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Except in case of relatives, inquiries from one sex to the other are barred. We reserve the weekly and daily editions, to any BURKE. Former se operator on Trans- Wireless acific Army transport for five years. Believed to be working in vicinity of San Luis Obispor, Calif. Write—Address ‘‘Spmrr’’ Mort, Naval Air Station, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, T. H. BUCKLEY, JIM. Your friends are anxious to hear from you. Please write—Address Hazen and ANpDy TayLor, Room 805, 830 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. repent in Ui—S.:-Army: Inquiries will be printed three times, then taken out. In the February 28th issue all un- found names asked for during the past two years will be reprinted alphabetically. F P. H. Last heard of on board S.S. Nelson. Gave letter * to your mother. Will send you a letter care of Ad- venture, N. ¥Y.C. Have it forwarded to you, and let me know through Adventure if you receive it—“Birb.”’ COnmicloo C 5) (C@ 5}