Adventure Magazine Cover, October 30, 1924 — page 196: what you’re looking at

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186 write Supt. of Public Documents, Wash, D. C., for catalog of all Government publications. For U. S., its posses- sions an and most foreign countries, the Dept. of Com., as For he Philippines, Porto Rico, and customs receiver- ships in Santo Domine? and Haiti, the Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Dept., Wa For Alaska, the * Ainge "Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, Central Bldg., Seattle, Wash. For Hawaii, Hawaii Promotion Committee, Chamber of et Honolulu, T. H. Also, Dept. of the Interior, as For Cuba, Bureau of Information, Dept. of Agri., Com. and Labor, Havana, Cuba. A Correction ie os are a couple of letters—one from a member of our writers’ brigade, the other from an ‘“‘A. A.” expert, the accuracy of whose work has never been called into question before: Asheville, N. C. Several gentlemen in Asheville who must read their Adventure pretty closely have called my at- tention to an “A. A.”’ answer given by Mr. Barbour to William Brown of New York regarding a tramp- ing tour in the Blue Ridge and Smokies. It was in the issue of May 30, 1924. Most of it was all right, but there were several points of error in regard to the Asheville plateau region at the present time. Mr. Barbour must have been thinking of years agone when he said there was ‘‘a logging road up Mt. Mitchell.” There is, in fact, one of the most beautiful and easily traversed motor roads in America nearly to the top. Also apart from this hard surface road from Ashe- ville, more than half of which is a boulevard, there is the beautiful trail up Big Ivy from the southwest which a pedestrian might prefer. The State of North Carolina has a park on top of Mitchell for motor tourists, and there is a fine hotel at Camp Alice as well. Also Mr. Barbour errs when he says there is a question about ‘Mitchell being the highest peak of the Appalachian ranges.’”’ He mentions Cling- man’s Dome as possibly a rival. Now Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt, formerly State engineer, and Mr. Leslie Jones, director of the U. S. Geodetic Survey, after complete computations say that Mitchell, at 6,711 feet, is the highest peak in America east of the Rockies. These gentlemen and others will be glad if Adventure will note these corrections. Mr. Barbour is right about starting any such trip, either tramping, by horse or motor—from Asheville. Any part of the Smoky or Blue Ridge ranges is best reached via the fine hard roads which penetrate from here to any of the wilder regions. And as for climate! JI wore an overcoat last night! There are not five nights all summer here as hot as you'll have it, week after week, in any Northern city. Blankets every dawn, sure as shooting. Cold, rushing rivers, green-robed peaks. lovely valleys —CHARLES TENNEY JACKSON. A copy of Mr. Jackson’s letter was sent to Mr. Barbour, who replied as follows: New York. The logging road up Mt. Mitchell was still in operation when I was last there about four years Adventure The Pan-American Union for general information on Latin-American matters or for specific data. L. S. Rowe, Dir. Gen., Wash., D. C. For R.C. M.P., Commissioner Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa, Can. Only unmarried British subjects, age 18 to 40, above 5 ft. 8 in. and under 175 Ibs. For Canal Zone, the Panama Canal Com., Wash., D. C. National Rifle Association of America, Brig. Gen. Fred H. Phillips, Jr., Sec’y, r108 Woodward Bldg., Wash., D. C. United States Revolver Ass’n. W. A. MORRALL, Sec’y- Treas., Hotel Virginia, Columbus, O. National parks, how to get there and what to do ‘shatag ae Address National Park Service, Washing- ton, D. C. ago. I did not know that it had been abandoned. The motor road too must have been extended since I was there. The supremacy of Mt. Mitchell as the highest peak in the East has been in dispute for several generations. ‘There is apparently no question that Mt. Mitchell is 6,711 feet, for it has been accurately surveyed. Clingman’s Dome in the Smokies has not been so accurately surveyed, or had not been the last I knew. People around Knoxville still claim it to be higher. One rather rough triangulation gave the figure 6,666 feet, or forty-five feet lower than Mt. Mitchell. Mt. Guyot and Le Conte in the Smokies are about the same height as Clingman’s Dome, whatever that may be. Personally I believe Mt. Mitchell is the highest, but many people still question it. Mr. Jackson is certainly right in all he says about climate and scenery.—WM. R. BARBOUR. The full statement of the sections in this department as given in this issue, is printed only in alternate issues. Big-Game Hunting in South Africa OM TIDDLER,” the character to whom reference is made below by Captain Franklin, is the discoverer of some wonderful gold-field, with nuggets as big as footballs, that neither he nor any one else could ever find again: Question:—“A friend of mine and myself are thinking of a trip around the world and stopping at Mombasa to arrange for a short trip lion-hunting in the Lake Victoria Nyanza District. We would like to get some information as to how much a two or three months’ trip would cost, and get hold of a map, etc. We have guns and ammunition and some equipment. How much is the hunting license, if any is needed for lion, as we do not care about any- thing else?” —TuEo. S. JEwETT, Laconia, N. H. Answer, by Capt. Franklin:—You will notice that I do not cover the Victoria Nyanza district in my territory for Adventure magazine. I am, how- ever, writing you to urge you not to hunt from Mom- basa. This territory is a kind of ‘“Tom Tiddler’s ground” these days. There are a great number of hunting-expeditions from Mombasa. Licenses are very expensive; so are your Carriers. I would strongly advise you to come down from Mombasa to Beira in Portuguese East Africa and COmichoookSs.c@ Al