PUBLISHER'S NOTES.\ 



In a recent letter from the Page Woven 

 Wire Fence Co., of Adrian, Michigan, they 

 say: 



"We were never so well equipped as at 

 present to furnish Page fences. Having 

 our own steel, rod and wire mills, and 

 having largely increased our weaving ca- 

 pacity, we are in good shape to supply the 

 demand for 1903. We make a standard 

 style of fencing for every farm, poultry, 

 stock, or railroad requirement; use double 

 strength horizontal wires in all these styles, 

 and coil or spiral every one of them from 

 end to end the whole length of the fence, 

 thus providing for expansion and contrac- 

 tion. Page wire will retain this coiled 

 shape even after it has been drawn out 

 straight 1,000 times. No locks, staples or 

 other devices are used to hold the horizon- 

 tals and crossbars together, because Page 

 fence is a real woven wire fence. Horizon- 

 tals and crossbars woven together is all 

 there is of it. 



The ad of the Page Fence Company ap- 

 pears regularly in Recreation and if you 

 have not yet investigated the merits of their 

 fencing, you should write for catalog, de- 

 scriptive matter and prices now. 



Catalogues come so fast that it really 

 keeps an editor hustling to tell of all of 

 them; yet there are many coming to this 

 office that are of such vital interest to my 

 readers I feel it my duty to keep them 

 advised as to these works. 



The latest book in my line comes from 

 Parker Bros., Meriden, Conn., makers of 

 the old reliable Parker gun. This book, 

 like many others I have had occasion to talk 

 of, is replete with information of great 

 value to bird shooters, and contains some 

 elaborate illustrations of the Parker guns, 

 both in their complete form, ready for use, 

 and in detail as to mechanism. Only rarely 

 does a man who uses a Parker gun need 

 anything with which to repair it, but in case 

 such a thing ever should happen, it would 

 be handy to have a copy of this pamphlet 

 at hand, for it illustrates every piece used 

 in the Parker. Each part is numbered and 

 named, so that even a novice would have 

 no difficulty in expressing his wants. Of 

 course, every reader of Recreation will 

 want a copy of the Parker catalogue, and 

 in writing for it you should say where you 

 saw it mentioned. It makes a lot of dif- 

 ference to me whether you do this or not. 



The making of the gaily colored blankets 

 of the Navajo Indians bids fair to become 

 one of the lost arts in the near future. The 

 old squaws are the only people in the tribe 



who can be induced to weave these blan- 

 kets, and they will soon have passed away. 

 The younger people prefer to buy their 

 blankets from post traders, and if they 

 work at all they prefer to work on some- 

 thing more interesting and less confining 

 than the slow process of weaving blankets 

 by hand. Therefore, persons who wish to 

 procure samples of these beautiful blankets 

 and thus retain relics of the handiwork of 

 a passing people, must do so in the near fu- 

 ture. The Edward Smith Indian Post Trad- 

 ing Co., whose ad appears on page xxxvi 

 of this issue of Recreation, has a man 

 traveling all the time among the Navajos, 

 buying all the blankets he can find, and 

 shipping them to the company's warehouse 

 at Canyon Diablo, Arizona. The company 

 has issued a catalogue of these blankets 

 and of other rare and interesting Indian 

 curios, which can be had by asking for it. 

 In writing for it, please mention Recrea- 

 tion. 



The demand for our boats has increased 

 so much within the last few months that 

 we are compelled to work overtime to 

 keep a supply on hand. So far this year 

 we have sold twice as many of these boats 

 as we did during the entire year of 1901, 

 and we feel that the ad in your excellent 

 magazine has been greatly instrumental in 

 bringing us many orders. The demand 

 does not seem to be confined to any par- 

 ticular part of the country, but comes from 

 all over the United States and Europe. We 

 recently shipped a large order to Germany. 

 Last week we forwarded a car load to the 

 Simmons Hardware Co., of St. Louis, Mo., 

 and one to the Marshall- Wells Hardware 

 Co., of Duluth, Minn. The ad in Recrea- 

 tion has been a great factor in the sale of 

 these goods and we would not hesitate to 

 recommend it to the use of any one who 

 wishes to place worthy goods before the 

 sportsmen of this country. 



W. H. Mullins, Salem, Ohio. 



The Southern Railway announces ex- 

 cellent service and schedule for the South- 

 ern travel for the season of 1902 and 1903. 

 Operating from New York over the Penn- 

 sylvania, 12 through sleeping car lines daily 

 touch almost every prominent city in the 

 South and Southwest. This road also gives 

 high class dining car service on all the 

 through trains. This route operates the 

 Washington and Southwestern Limited, 39 

 hours, New York to New Orleans, connect- 

 ing with the Southern Pacific Sunset Limit- 

 ed from New Orleans to the Pacific coast; 



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