Daily inter mountain., 1900-08-18
If YOU ARE GOING
TO CAMP OUT
You Can Build q Little House of Your
Own, or Can Dwell in the
Old-Fashioned Tent.

September Is the month for mping
out. The fish run well in the streams
and the game laws allow the hunting
of many wild thing. Nature is at her
lsweetest and coolest and the odors of
the full ripening of vegetation are in
the air. You can shut your ewes at
any time during the coming twelve
month and scent the forest If you are
so fortunate as to be allowed the in
Indulgence of September camp
A Brooklyn man started for the Maine
woods not so long ago with his family
and the determination to have home.
He purchased a few loads of timber
from the nearest town and branched off
into the forest with two carpenters. In
| side of three days he had a house. not
a town house, but a forest home, and,
within a week he had it covered with
|canvas and draped with the branches
of trees. 1t was very picturesque.
| Baskets of fruit and quarters of west
ern beef found their way to the woods
VERY often and an obliging woodsman
Journeyed to the camp twice a week
lwt ha supply of ice. 1t was camping
out with all comforts of home.
| Tenting is the most popular form of
camping and very commodious some of
the tents are. They are light to carry
easy to pitch and very comfortable to
dwell in. tent for person should
oS lIe rue al the tents DelnS Satnereu
| in one little colony, in the center of
which burns the camp fire all night
rms keeps away mosquitoes and
frishtens the wild animals without
which no camp is ever complete.
Campingout things have, of course,
long been articles of sale by the dealers
in sportesmen's goods. but there never
was time before when they were Of
fered in such variety, and of such per-
feet adaptability to their use as now
OF tents there is a great variety. of all
kinds and styles and sizes, for from one
or two people up. and if these tents are
not in stock the dealer makes any of
them to order within twenty-four hours
There are camp stoves and camp ovens
and various camp cooking utensils. Among
the new things in this line the cooking
kits of very light metal which are wonders
Of lishtness and compactness, such kits
are made OF various Sizes for from two
An aluminium coking kit and camp OUT
Mt for six persons occupies when packed
s1s sam transIportationsa m .I space little. if any,
nary water bucket: Such a kit contains
four pals. nesting, snugly together and
en each provided with a cover and a bail
There are in the kit knives and forks ana
spoons and cups and plates and coffee bot
ana frying pans-eVerything that could be
needed for the convenience and comfort of
!he ca campers, and everything made SO that
1t will go inside the innermost of the nest
of pals. e7'
The frying pans are ingeniousy contrived
to be used with pole handle, which is cut
at the camp and inserted in the handle of
the frying pan, SO that the cook doesn't
have to bend down over the fire in smoke
but can. with his long-handled frying pan
stand up straight and away from the heat
and manipulate the pan in comfort.
me hunter or fisherman who camps out
can OF course, build a bed for himself with
crotched sticks and poles, he can make
hed or boughs upon which to spread his
blankets; or he can buy sleeping outfit
less time than he could build a bed from
natures materials and that would at the
same time give him, in the midst of nature
abs oute luxury. besides being when not
IN use, light and portable to a high de-
gree.
Folding camp beds have long been made, |
put they are made nowadays lighter and >
10 do up in completer form than ever One
can buy camp bed very comfortable to
sieep on that will do up for transportation
into a light bundle feet long by 6 inches
square. II he wants something more COM
lortapie stlll he can buy air amttress
Wnich can be quickly infla ted, and which,
ne'iated, ,l makes roll 80 inches in length
Dy inches in diameter !
sleeping bags. which, not many years
ago were articles of limited sale, and which
Mneh USED, We're more likely to be sup
phtd hy the guides, are nowadays made in |
variety and sold in considerable numbers |
Ifey are lined with furs of various kinds |
or with lambs wool, or blankets, heavy or
hsht, sleeping bags being made for use in !!
any climate. Sleepinss bags may be cost
~, or inexpensive according to the mate
flais as OF which they are made. ,
ihefe are compaSses, of course, the mod
efh camp compass being put into a nickel
case like a watch case, most convenient
10 carry and use; there are waterproof |
and SO on. There is in fact
to be found in these days, for camping out
everything that could be required for con-
Venience, for comfort, or for luxury, and
all these up-to-date in economy of place
and weight.
The camper-out can also get in the sport
ing goods establishments food in consid-
erable variety, this being like the sports
mans camp equipage food put up in the
eompactest possible form He can buy in
a cylindrical paper box of the size of
quart measure, and very light to carry, in
the form of a powder, the yolks of six
dozen eggs; in form somewhat like that /;
of dynamite cartridge, six inches in
length by an inch an inch and half
in diameter, can be bought in this highly