PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



All big game hunters will be glad to 

 learn that the Winchester Repeating Arms 

 Co. has evolved a new cartridge for the '95 

 model box magazine repeating rifle. This 

 new cartridge is of 35 caliber and is said 

 to be the most powerful, at both long and 

 short ranges, ever offered. It is loaded 

 with a soft point metal jacketed bullet, and 

 develops a muzzle velocity of 2,200 feet a 

 second. This means a muzzle energy of 

 2,685 foot pounds. At 15 feet from the 

 muzzle this new bullet penerates 15 pine 

 boards each % of an inch thick. This in- 

 dicates a tremendous killing power for the 

 new cartridge, and it is sure to become 

 popular at once.. 



This Company has also recently put 

 on the market a line of high velocity, low 

 pressure cartridges for 45-70, 45-90 and 

 50-110 Winchester rifles. These new cart- 

 ridges are loaded with smokeless powder 

 and soft point metal patched bullets. The 

 cartridges are specially designed for big 

 game hunting at distances up to 200 yards. 

 The company has made a careful series of 

 tests of this new ammunition as to velocity, 

 penetration and trajectory. The result has 

 been tabulated and printed and copies of 

 these tables can be had by addressing the 

 Winchester Company at New Haven. 

 When you write please mention Recrea- 

 tion. 



Skagway, Alaska. 

 Messrs. H. J. Putman & Co., 

 Minneapolis, Minn. 

 Gentlemen : It is but right I should let 

 you know your No. 678 is more than I 

 asked for or expected in the way of a boot. 

 It was not only as comfortable as an old 

 shoe from the beginning, but it is the happy 

 combination of minimum weight and maxi- 

 mum staying qualities. Should anyone ask 

 me where to buy the best boot for hunting, 

 fishing, climbing mountains or knocking 

 about at out of door railroad work in all 

 kinds of weather, I should certainly advise 

 him to make his wants known to you. 

 Few if any who have not summered and 

 wintered in Alaska can understand how 

 much "all kinds of weather" means, es- 

 pecially when it includes conditions under 

 foot as well as overhead. 



Yours truly, 

 J. R,. Van Cleve, Master Mechanic, 



White Pass and Yukon Route. 



The Polk Miller Drug Co., Richmond, 

 Va., makers of the Sergeant dog remedies, 

 have been running y 2 page ads in Recrea- 

 tion during the past year, and have recently 



sent me a voluntary order for 12 full pages, 

 beginning with this issue of Recreation. 

 This proves 2 important claims : First, 

 that Recreation is a good advertising me- 

 dium and has proved such in the case of the 

 Polk Miller Co.. Second, that the Sergeant 

 remedies are real remedies. If they were 

 not, dog men would have found it out long 

 ago and the sale of them, instead of grow- 

 ing as it has grown from year to year, 

 would have ceased entirely, in spite of lib- 

 eral advertising. Moral: If you have a 

 good dog, order a full line of the Sergeant 

 remedies and keep them on hand for emer- 

 gencies. 



Eastern sportsmen are every year going 

 in larger, numbers to the Northwest for 

 their fall shooting. The Great Northern 

 reports that the demand this year for their 

 "Shooting and Fishing Guide" is greater 

 than ever before. Any sportsman, who 

 contemplates a trip to the Northwest, or 

 who wishes to keep posted on its attractive 

 game fields, should send 6c. in stamps to 

 F. I. Whitney for copy of his 1902 edi- 

 tion of "Shooting and Fishing along the 

 line of the Great Northern Railway." 



F. C. Huyck & Sons, Albany, New York, 

 makers of the famous Kenwood sleeping 

 bag, are again advertising in Recreation, 

 and I again cheerfully recommend these 

 people and their goods to everybody. I 

 know many people who are using Kenwood 

 bags and have never yet heard an adverse 

 criticism of them. I therefore advise all 

 readers of Recreation who have any idea 

 of buying sleeping bags to write these peo- 

 ple for descriptive circular. When you 

 do so please mention Recreation. 



The Union Metallic Cartridge Company 

 has issued a book entitled, "Shot Gun Am- 

 munition," which illustrates and describes 

 the various goods manufactured by this 

 company, and which gives prices thereof. 

 This is a most valuable work for reference 

 and every shot gun shooter in the country 

 should have a copy. When you write for it 

 mention Recreation. 



The firm of Jespersen & Hines, formerly 

 of 10 Park Place, New York, has discon- 

 tinued business and dissolved. Mr. H. L. 

 Jespersen, who was the head of the firm, 

 is now with R. H. Macy & Co., Sixth Ave- 

 nue and 14th Street, New York, where cor- 

 respondence will reach him promptly. 



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