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FOREST AND STREAM 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company 
Chas. A. Hazen, President Charles L. Wise, Treasurer 
W. G. Beecroft, Secretary 
22 Thames Street, New York. 
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formation between American sportsmen. The editors 
invite communications on the subjects to which its pages 
are devoted, but, of course, are not responsible for the 
views of correspondents. Anonymous communications 
cannot be regarded. 
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COVER ILLUSTRATION. 
This week’s cover illustrates a section of the 
new “Highway of the Great Divide,” the Banff- 
Windermere automobile road at Sinclair Canyon. 
ANCIENT AND HONORABLE IN TITLE— 
BUT VERY MODERN OTHERWISE. 
The Ancient and Honorable Hudson Bay Com¬ 
pany, the organization of which dates back ori¬ 
ginally to 1670, and which has made untold mil¬ 
lions out of its dealings with Canadian Indians 
and trappers, is accused of being responsible for 
an action which we trust is not altogether true 
in detail. 
The present European war is demoralizing the 
fur industry and destroying the market for the 
raw product shipped to London from all parts of 
the world. The Hudson Bay Company has on 
hand an enormous stock and does not wish to 
increase the amount carried over. Its custom, 
as is well known, is to advance to the Indians 
and other trappers dealing with it sufficient sup¬ 
plies at the beginning of each fall season to 
carry the trapper into the spring, when he settles 
his bill by turning in the result of his season’s 
labors. Now, however, when money is tight the 
world over, the company does not feel like put¬ 
ting out its funds to further glut the market, 
and an announcement is made that the usual ad¬ 
vances are to be withheld. 
This spells tragedy for a large part of the 
Indians of the interior portions of Canada. The 
Dominion Government is expected to step into 
the breach and support, partially at least, the 
hordes of dependents and their families, but one 
can imagine how futile this will be in accom¬ 
plishment. 
It begins to look as though starvation stared 
the Indian in the face, and yet from an economic 
standpoint, even if sentimental reasons don’t 
count, the action of the Hudson Bay Company 
appears to be akin to that of the farmer who 
turns his live stock out to starve in the winter 
because he has no work for them. 
Already the snow is piling up in the forests of 
the interior of Canada, and we can imagine that 
many an honest Indian trapper, as he sits 
moodily by his fire, contemplating with dread a 
coming fierce winter, finds it difficult to connect 
the cause of the privation confronting him and 
his family with the white man’s war, raging 
three or four thousand miles away. 
FIGURES AND FACTS. 
According to the record kept by “Printers 
Ink,” the volume of agate line advertising in the 
September outdoor journals (exclusive of pub¬ 
lishers’ own advertising), was as follows: 
Forest and Stream .. 1 5,545 
National Sportsman.11,648 
Field and Stream. 10,248 
Outer’s Book .. 7,924 
Outing . 7,420 
Outdoor Life . 7,168 
Recreation . 4,886 
Established for more than forty years, the 
supremacy of Forest and Stream as a represen¬ 
tative outdoor publication has never been threat¬ 
ened. Particularly impressive, in view of war 
conditions, is the record shown above- 
CAMP SITES AT NOMINAL RENT. 
The Conservation Commission has directed 
forest rangers to obtain full information concern¬ 
ing all state lands in the forest preserve, which 
may be required in the discussion of certain pro¬ 
posed amendments to the state constitution. The 
commission advocates the utilization of matured 
timber and the leasing of camp sites in the 
Adirondack and Catskill state parks and the 
requisite amendment of the constitution has re¬ 
ceived the endorsement of various sportsmen’s 
ciganizations and friends of forest preservation. 
Without in any way injuring the forests, but on 
the contrary enhancing their value and beauty, 
the proposed selective method of cutting, and 
sale of ripe timber will wipe out a fixed annual 
carrying charge of $365,000 on the Forest Pre¬ 
serve (of which $200,000 is for interest and $150.- 
000 for taxes), and substitute a net annual in¬ 
come for the state of $635,000. 
A trained forester of the conservation depart¬ 
ment has been assigned to take charge of the 
work of securing the particular information 
needed under the direction of the superintendent 
of state forests. Blanks have been sent out to 
•the forest gangers to assist them in compiling- 
data concerning the various parcels of state land. 
The rangers have been instructed to report on 
the various parcels, giving their ideas as to the 
quantity and value of the timber, number and 
value of the camp sites, and other information 
which may be of assistance to the constitutional 
convention. We heartily indorse the section 
applying to reytal of camp sites for, after all, 
there is no reason why persons, generally non¬ 
tax payers, should not be assessed a nominal 
charge for their summer residence site, even 
though it be on state land, and, we doubt not 
that any person, worthy of the right of occupancy 
will be willing to pay his share of the upkeep 
of the wonderful territory offered, such locations, 
in fact, as the camper could not afford to rent 
were he to pay the tax demanded by a corpora¬ 
tion or individual land owner. 
TIMBER CUTTERS AND THE DEER. 
The proposition that the worst offenders 
against the game law have been found in log 
camps, seems to be quite general- It may sur- 
p:ise many people to learn that in the Adiron- 
dacks, at least, there are men of various callings 
who hold that the proprietors or “bosses” of log 
camps are better game protectors than some of 
the sportsmen who visit the woods in the open 
season. The men who express this belief in¬ 
form us that while in years past loggers were 
persistent offenders, at the present time many 
of them require their men to observe the laws 
closely. 
There is little sentiment in this action. Busi¬ 
ness methods apply. They hold that the posses¬ 
sion of rifles by their employes is a menace to 
these business methods. If an employe who is 
fond of hunting has a rifle, he will want “a day 
off” to look for game, and in the closed season, 
when every man’s efforts are needed in getting 
logs into the streams, the loss of each day may¬ 
be a serious item when the ice breaks up. If 
one man is granted time to hunt, others will 
insist on a similar privilege. The result is de¬ 
moralizing. At best it is hard to keep good 
loggers in the woods throughout the long season, 
and “born logmen” are becoming scarcer every 
year. 
Again, the sound of the rifle shots carries a 
long distance in the forest. Residents are not 
in sympathy with the logmen, and if they hear 
shooting near a camp, they are likely to ask the 
nearest protector to investigate. The arrest of 
an employe is a costly item to the “boss,” for 
several of his fellows may be called as witnesses 
to a distant town, and when a logger “strikes 
town,” its attractions are likely to hold him far 
beyond his leave, if indeed he returns alt all. 
If a camp “boss” shows an inclination to let 
his men hunt, and buys the deer they kill for 
the mess, he receives frequent requests for leave 
to hunt, since a man can sell a deer for more 
than his day’s wages would amount to. The re¬ 
sult is ever unsatisfactory, and the risk is great. 
That deer are frequently killed and sold to the 
log camps is no doubt true, but judging from talks 
with loggers, camp proprietors, guides, protec¬ 
tors and many other persons in various parts of 
the Adirondacks, we feel sure that the timber 
cutters have come to a realization of the fact 
that lawlessness among their men cannot now be 
winked at as it was in the days when jacking 
and hounding were legal methods of hunting 
deer. 
A PROOF READER’S ERROR. 
Lexington, Ky., Oct. 12, 1914. 
In your issue of week before last you advised 
an inquirer for a mosquito repellant to use 33 1-3 
per cent, carbolic acid in olive oil. I hope no one 
took this advice, as the material would be danger¬ 
ous and if used over an extensive surface might 
even prove fatal. I would almost certainly take 
the skin off, if it did no further damage. What 
the would-be authority probably had in mind was 
to use one part of dilute carbolic acid, which is 
5 per cent., to three parts of olive oil. You owe if 
to your readers to withdraw the dangerous ad¬ 
vice. DR. CHAS. T. McCLINTOCK. 
