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Show TENTS FOR WINTER HABITATIONS. A man who has wintered in Alaska tells the Detroit Free Press that he lived three years ago one winter in a tent in Alaska, when the thermometer was 40 below zero, and was not uncomfortable. It was a double walled tent, with an air space between the two walls, and he adds, what a great man prospectors pros-pectors ,in the West know, that a tent is far warmer than is commonly supposed. It is true that a heavy tent, well banked around the bottom, is a much more comfortable winter residence res-idence than a board house. We are surprised that more people in southern camps in Nevada have not sent for house tents, because be-cause they can be put up in a day. They only need a trifling amount of lumber and they are warmer in cold weather than a board house. |