The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-12
POINTS FOR CAMPERS
Chicago Inter Ocean9

| Those who are really close to nature S
heart perhaps enjoy camping quite as
well as any other form of vacation re-
1avation. It can be combined with so
many other ioys-canOeiug. fishing,
/ heating. sailing, bathing, tramping-
sketching. shooting and just loaiing
I Vet the camp where all the campers
/ loaf all the time will be a sorry place,
/ for there is an amazing lot Of work to
be done unless everything is turned
I over to guides-Which is adNlsaDle only
under unusual circumstances Ihere Is
I a certain amount of Work that must
/ be done. and the way to make the camp
/ a success is to get enjoyment out of the
work. And to make the work enjoyable
the .outfft should be sUitable-and a
rea ssnable amount of brains used In the
/ handling Of it,
The literature of camping is extern
sive. and there are ssYeral really ex-
| cellent works that viii give an lnJelllr
/ gent reader a fair idea of how a camp
should be QUILTED, established and
/ run. This is no place for a cOmprehen-
sive article on camping, but, assuming
/ that the reader Is not an absolute ten
derfoot. here are some pointers that
will be found helpful being the result
/ Of experience.
/ Here is an ideal site for a camp; An
/ open knoll, a ridge of point Juttlng
out into the water. There must be good
natural drainage. The tent must have
/ exposure TO sunlight for several hours
/ in the day. the morning preferred Pure
water must be reasonably close at hand
and there must be wood suitable for
/ the campfire.
Camp bedding should be taken out Of
the tent and hung up in the sunlight
| every day.
/ If the varmints of the wood show dis
| position to eat up your grub, hang the
/ edibIes from branches by cords OF wires
or run a stout cord from one tree TO
another. Don't forget TO protect these
| edibles from rain and sun.
Do your cooking and eat your meals
away from the sleeping tent this VIII
| help to keep out insects and vermin. A
/ dining table is easily made by driving
four stakes for legs, mailing cleats
across the end and covering the top
with bark or sticks or boards Benches
can be made at each side on the same
! principle A rough framework over
which is stretched a tarpaulin OF tent
| fly, is a luxury.
Dig a sink or rubbish hole within easy
reaching distance for such refuse as
will not burn-dish water, etc, and
throw in every day a layer Of earth or
ashes. This will prevent a nuisance Of
flies
/ chips and bits of bark there viii be a
great saving Of dish washing.
A rack against a tree near the tent,
something like a rack for billiard cues,
is handy for fishing rods, which can be
stood up, full riggeds without the dan
ger of falling down.
To keep the butter sweet put the tin
or jar IN a bag or net and sink it IN q
cold stream or spring, tying it TO the
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IF you have more than one spring
build a refrigerator over one. If you
have no spring to spare, dig a hole I'm
the ground, line it with stone or bark
and cover the top-this will make d
fairly good refrigerator.
A folding canvas water pail is a very
handy article about camp
Beware of taking glassware into
camp; stuff in bottles is never safe.
When all the woods are wet you can
get dry wood from any standing dead
tree.
High ground is dry ground and the
best to camp on, even If you have TO
carry wood and water some distance.
In casting either artificial fly or min
now, short line we'll handled is more
successful than long. bUngling casts.
The pneumatic canoe carrier or yoke
is luxury on a canoe trip where there
are many pOTtages 10 be made.
The new vacuum bottle is expensive.
but is a very handy thing to keep
liquids either hot or cold for many
hours.
The best camp lantern is the folding
candle lantern, which folds fiat when
not in use and burns ordinary candles
A folding canvas water bottle is al
most a necessity in camp where good
drinking water is not available al all
times.
A pile of drift wood piled by high
water beside q stream is always good
store of frewOOd. and some Of IL is al
ways dry
Any gun will shoot about four timet
as far as you think it will Therefore I
be careful that nothing is in range be-
yond your target.
Go light. But don't go so light as to
suffer hardships from insufficient sup
plies or equipment The knack Is in /
going light, but right"
II you will have to depend upon /
compass. get a good one. A good one /
viii cost considerable, but a poor one I
is worse than nothing
You should take even better care Of /
yourself in the woods than at home /
because you are not used to frregulari- I
ties and are more apt to get sick un-
less you watch yourself.
Take a medicine chest with you. It I
should contain tablets for cold, a ca
thartic and other simple remedies that I
any doctor or any intelligent drug clerk I
Will recommend.
The general rule among campers Is /
to have company stores" That is ali /
right, but each man should have his
own complete kit of personal necessi- /
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