Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1896 — A Curious Camp Stove. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Camp Stove.

An Aroostook, Maine, woodsman, B. B. White, has a curious and unique arrangement for cooking food over an open fire, which he calls a camp range. It consists of a three-fourths-lnch Iron gas pipe, eighteen inches long, hammered to a point at one end and plugged with metal, through which there are' three small holes, each of a size fit to hold the end of a wire, say, three-six-teenths of an inch In diameter. Loops are made of wire, into which skillets, palls, pans or other tapering cooking utensils are fitted snugly. A washer of 6heet Iron fits over the end of the gas pipe and is prevented from slipping clear down by a snug metal wristband. The washer serves to brace the wires. The gas pipe Is driven Into the ground

and red embers and coals placed abqpt it. The food is cooked easily and quickly. A coffee pot hanger is also used, it being bent up so that the long coffee pot will swing clear of the fire. Had White cared to do so, he might have made a snug sum of money by patenting and selling bis bandy contrivance.—Lewiston (Maine) JonrnaL