The independent-reporter., 1922-10-26
Arrived in Newfoundland
st. Georges. Nfld
October 1922
The Independent Reporter,
SkoWhegan, Maine.

October 1922
The Independent Reporter,
Skowhegan, Maine.
Gentlemen.
viii you please publish the follow
ing letter to my friends:
We left Waterville August 25 at 12.f5
for St. Georges, Newfoundland. We
arrived at North Sidney, \. S. Aug.
26 at 730. we went aboard the boat
at go and had a very pleasant night.
arrived at Port-adx- Basques at $50 a.
m. Took the train there, arrived at
st. Georges, Mid, at 2.30 p. m from
POrt-aux- Basques to st. Georges is
about one hundred miles. There was
some of the most wonderful scenery
that we ever saw There was range
of mountains on one side covered
with ferns and vines and now and then
d small pond with just lodges enough
to make it beautiful. And on the
other side one of the toughest casts
in the world. There are places
along this coast where in the winter
time they have to stop and chain the
cars to the track to keep from blow
ing over. There are only few small
trees and they are all blown and
twisted to pieces.
st. Georges is small fishing viii
age and all the people do is fish and
eat and steal from each other every
else they can it is said. We arc log
ging on Little Barachois Brook The
brook is about as large as Sandy
Stream and Carrabassett combined. 1t
runs between two ranges of noun
tains. They average about seven hun
dred feet high. On the top of the
mountains they are barrens and small
ponds The spruce, fir and pine are
Just the same as is Maine. But there
are no hemlock, cedar rock-maple,
beech or oak and they call silver birch,
witch hazel Our upper camp is Sc
venteen miles from the coast. We
tote in with teams eight miles. Then
by motor boat four miles. Then five
miles more by team. We have some
very pleasant camping grounds. With
the best of water coming out OF the
mountain The climate is about the
same as in Maine only at this time
of tne year we have more rain here.
There are quite a few men here that
have worked in the Maine woods and
they say there is not as much snow
here as back in Maine and the coldest
they ever saw it here was 20 below.
AS for the game. bear and caribou are
very plentiful and thcre are quite a
few moose. Open season on carbon
is from July ! to October /. Then
from October 90 to February l. With
no open season on moose. Geese are
very plentiful here. We were mp on
the mountains one day and we got
into some bushes by the side OF a
pond. There we're three AOcks OF
geese came and lighted in the pond.
There was over one hundred in the
three nocks and some were within
thirty feet Of us as the pond was
small il was nearly all cove cd with
geese. We got three at one shot and
nine in all They would average
about fifteen pounds apiece. The
geese here stay around the coast night
and day. They go up to the ponds on
the mountains and on the barrens for
blncberries. There are thousands of
acres of blueberries on those barrens.
Now boys if you get any geese this
fall with a few y shot in them you
Will know they came from Newfound-
land
LAURISTON F.. HOWES.
p. s. get thc Reporter every Sun
dav. There arc eleven of us from
Maine and we all grab for the paper
like letter from home, which comes
more regularly than the letters, and
before the next paper arrives the old
one looks like shop worn goods.
BURNS Observation-Disclosures
Mrs. f. S. Taylor and son from
Sidney was a visitor at Fred Davis
last week.