The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-11

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full Set but these modified by the dimensions Of the
cape which varies from the half to the full SET
consisting simply OF nua cuffs and vicorne
be lad Tor considerably less than the amounts above emu
meraed There are as may be expected, gone varia
tons in those that have put down. but the prices
given will be found on investigation be generally
Auson hiss air eady beer made 10 the great demand
which exists for fur goods in this city, in proof OF which
we may state that the safes Of one house amount to
eight hundred thousand dollars year. These sales are
altogether confined 10 fancy urs, which comprise all de
scrptons of skins manufactured in this couptryslegh
robes caps coats, gloves and all articles by
well as women In addition TO this the same house
shipped in year three hundred AMI fifty thousand dol
lars worth OF shipping furs, consisting OF OTTER beaver
muskrat fisher bear silver fox wolves red and
gray fox raccoon opossu rabbit and skunk which last
during the past four FIVE has entered largely
the amount of exported furs. The skin Of the skunk
which formerly was considered worthless for manufac
turing purposes meets with ready sale in the European
market The white portion Of the far it appears is
out and sold for fisher An unrelentpg warfare will here
after be waged upon the skunk, and his peculiar odo
ferrous quality which at one time perfect bulwak
OF protection, will no longer save him. =
Having referred at length those which may be called
par excellence the fashionable furs well as those which
though not SO fashionable, still extensively worm
brief allusion to the fur trade will not be deemed
inappropriate in conclusion. The yearly sales Of
one OF the largest houses in the world which is that
Lampson 4 Co., London; amounts to about million and
half Of dollars, while the Hudsons Bay Company dis
poses every OF about two millions Of dollars worth
The value Of the furs disposed Of in Europe and America
is estimated at about twenty five millions and Of these
large proportion is taken this continent In this es
mate are of course included all varieties whether used
for wearing apparel or for manufacturing purposes
Throughout the United States alone they collect
about three millions Of muskrat skins, while the
number gathered in the Hudson's Bay Company 9
possessions does not exceed thirty thousand Of sable
this company sold hundred thousand skins
years spring sales, and of other kinds as folows-97s5
otter $50 Usher 800 silver fox 1851 fox sss red
fox 2O74 white fox, 1910 kit fox, 2626 black bear
sol brown, gray and white bear, 1924 lynx 6913 wolf
Gas wolverine, 202 skunk, Ill 074 marten Hudson
Bay sable 49, $50 mink "a 862 beaver musquash
1885 badger and other skins in proportion There were
Of the otter 2S6 Of the kind which the most
costly furs, and which sometimes sell for two hundred
dollars the single skim description Of the various
10 which all these different furs are applied would of
itself afford material for long and interesting article
we think we have said sufficient TO show the importance
Of the fur trade the growing demand for the expen
sve kind of furs, and to afford idea Of the immense
amount OF capital invested in the business well the
large number who must be dependent upon II for their
support From this trade has grown OF the greatest
monopoes the world has seen and which has been
The means Of shutting from the enterprise and indus
try of the thrifty and hardy settler tracts of
country that would otherwise have yielded abundant
and profitable return for his abors So long the Hud
sons Bay Company hold unrestricted possession those
vast territories long will they desolate will
derness ravesed only by the Indian or the white trApper
and hunter.