Dec. i, 1906.I 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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LEFEVER WON HIGHEST 
POSSIBLE HONORS, 1905 
( American Handicap—score 99-100 
GRAND-! Preliminary Handicap—score 98-100 
(Canadian Handicap—score 49-50 
and is already well started on its 
VICTORIOUS CAMPAIGN OF 1906 
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reation grounds in the east are limited. More 
and more, as the cilies swell, and the pressure of 
industrial life becomes severer, it is of the highest 
common concern that nature be safeguarded and 
encouraged in her beneficent work of building 
up and sustaining the great world of recreation, 
in which care is thrown aside and cramped limbs, 
bent shoulders, and weary brains may find free¬ 
dom and invigoration. The forest for recreation 
has become a much needed investment in the in¬ 
terests of the whole community. 
A RIVER OF ROLLING SAND. 
A river of sand rolls past Kansas City. The 
bottom of the Missouri river, from the moun¬ 
tains of the northwest to where it empties into 
the Mississippi, is one rolling, shifting bed of 
sand, ever moving slowly onward to the sea. 
If you were to go down in a diving suit to 
the river bottom you would see this sand con¬ 
stantly moving down stream, rolling over and over 
in the current. Opposite Kansas City this sand that 
forms the river bed is fifty feet deep in places. 
But it is always the same depth at the same place. 
It is continually shifting exactly as sandbars shift 
upon the shores in the treacherous current. 
This sand comes from erosion of the mountain 
rocks. No one knows or can guess how many 
years ago the sand, now drifting past Kansas 
City, was on its long journey from the mountains. 
It may have started many thousands of years 
ago. It may have been halted upon the way for 
hundreds or thousands of years. The “Big 
Muddy” has a trick of dumping a few million 
tons of sand by the wayside and of leaving it 
there for years. But the river always claims 
and takes it again some time. 
It is a part of the tearing down and building 
up plan of this mysterious old earth. Eventually 
the sand will be deposited upon the floor of the 
Gulf of Mexico, forming a vast plateau that some 
time, by some great convulsion of nature,, will be 
uplifted from the waves and form a fertile con¬ 
tinent. 
This river of sand helped to build Kansas City. 
Wherever you see a bit of concrete or street pav¬ 
ing or cement work there is sand from the river 
in it. 
Along the river front of Kansas City are 350 
acres of level, drifting sand. The sand is from 
twenty to fifty feet deep all over the 350 acres. 
There are millions of tons of sand there, and 
every grain of it was pumped from the bottom 
of the Missouri river. 
There are two boats which work day and night 
pumping sand upon the land that is being re¬ 
claimed from the river. From the pump upon 
the boat the sand and water are forced through 
a long iron pipe and are discharged upon the 
land. In this way the 350 acres have been re¬ 
claimed from the river. The land is owned by 
the Armour-Swift interests. It is worth $30,000 
an acre now. 
The water of the Missouri river where it flows 
past Kansas City averages twenty feet in depth, 
and the current is very swift. Anchored 100 feet 
from the shore are the pump boats and sand 
barges. They have powerful engines and pumps 
and long steel pipes that are lowered to the bot¬ 
tom of the river. The nozzle of the pipe sinks 
into the sand and the pump sucks it up. The 
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A Big-Game and Fish Map of New 
Brunswick. 
We have had prepared by the official draughtsman of 
New Brunswick a map of that Province, giving the local¬ 
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abundant, and also the streams in which salmon are 
found, and the rivers and lakes which abound in trout. 
Price, $1. 
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WOODCRAFT. 
By Nessmuk. Cloth, 160 pages. Illustrated. Price, $1.00. 
A book written for the instruction and guidance of 
those who go for pleasure to the woods. Its author, 
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GAME LAWS IN BRIEF 
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