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Forest and s t r e a m 
April, 1919 
EVINRUDE MOTOR CO., 
DISTRIBUTORS 
CD Cortlandt St., New York, N. T. 
214 State St., Boston, Mass. 
436 Market St., San Francisco, Cal. 
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Y our EVINRUDE gives added pleasure 
to your fishing days. It takes you quick- 
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THE 
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Return to Wrangell 
T he Canadian Customs House at the 
international boundary line was our 
next stop, for no one is allowed to 
pass it without an inspection for dutiable 
goods. But the Customs House was with- 
out a tenant. Last November, when nav- 
igation and travel on the Stikine was 
ended, Mr. Dixon, the collector at this 
point, received orders to abandon his post 
for the winter and report at Prince Ru- 
pert. 
Dixon was an old soldier and not a 
woodsman although he had lived on the 
edge of civilization nearly all his life. 
He was a good shot, a perfect gentleman 
and well liked by everybody. In some 
lines he was above the average in intel- 
ligence and training. He could write 
with either hand and add up a column of 
figures and write the totals with one 
hand while he signed his name with the 
other. The weather was bad when he 
started down the river to Wrangell, a 
distance of twenty miles, and he was of- 
fered the company and aid of a trapper 
to see him through ; but he declined it as 
he had full confidence in himself. Noth- 
ing was heard of him afterwards and not 
until March was any search made and 
then only a partial one. This spring, 
when travel opened, his boat, suitcase 
and camp outfit were found on one side 
of the river and his rain coat and some 
letters the trapper had given him to mail 
on the other. The theory is that he was 
lost in the river or in trying to weather a 
storm in crossing the eight miles of salt 
water between the mouth of the Stikine 
and Wrangell. This river is a danger- 
ous one and has a record of more than 
one life a year. 
The spring bear hunter cannot hope to 
hunt this territory with any comfort, or 
in fact hunt at all, unless he hunts from 
a boat. The reason for this is that the 
snows are so deep that it is quite im- 
possible for the hunter to get about, and 
even were the snow not deep the brush is 
impenetrable, but with a boat and a good 
man paddling he can be sure of seeing 
plenty of game. 
A beaver cutting on the Stikine 
