The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-06-04
WILD ANIMALS.
ley Cost When Set Down in Zoo
logical Garden.

iey Cost When Set Down in a Zoo
logical Garden.
One would hardly think that the co s
of transportation from their native
homes often exceeds the money paid
for animals in wild state, and that it
would be impossible to replace some of
the animals at any price, says the Phil
adelphia Record. Take one of the 300
bears bought in the Rocky mountains
FOR instance 1t was probably sold
among its rocky wilds at $50 by the
hunter who had shot it's mother the
previous day. The cost of transporta-
ton of the cub to this city would be
about $780, Mule deer caught in the
Rocky mountains were sold there, prob
ably, for s25 each, but it would take $50
each to bring them here.
1t would be next to impossible to re-
place Bolivar, the giant elephant, if he
should die. Travellers say there is only
one Naples, and children agree that
there is only one Bolivar. 1t took S1O,-
900 to import Bolivar when he made his
first bow to the American public and
started on triumphal tour through
the country as one of the stars in the
Forepaugh show. But the knowledge
that he was $4,000 beauty was too
much for Bolivar's head, and the latter
swelled so much that. Bolivar's temper
swe1fed in proportion, and he became
SO vicious that as a last resting place he
was gifted to the Zoo. In the cultivated
atmosphere of Philadelphia he has had
time for sober reflection and his man
ners are slowly improving. He is ten
feet high at the shoulder, and absolute
ly without rival in his peculiar line in
tdhe world. The average price for full
grown elephant is about 81, 800.
rButwhati of the almost priceless herd
of the Zoos sixteen, buffaloes? They
are valued commercially at $500 each,
but they are so rare that it would be
impossible to replace them if the de-
stroying angel would come down some
night and sign their death warrants.
1t is food for reflection to be told that
twenty years ago buffalo hides were
sold for so to IS cents each, and that the
two great herds of buffaloes in the
country numbered over 100000. But
the noble animals were wanted for
Heather, SO into leather they went Now
there are about 500 buffaloes alive, an =
mounted buffalo heads are sold from
$3.50 to $3.50 each.
Since the Zoos rhinoceros has taken
up his residence there his value has in
creased by about $4,000 He is worth
s., 1000, and could not be replaced for
less thanrs7 ,00a- The Zoo has not had
a hipIopotamus since the $4,000 one
died il 1886. A giraffe costs about
$4,000, ,ut a gorilla is SO rare in cap
tivity that one would probably bring
$50, 900.
The children remember ''Pompey,"
the big lion who recently died at the
zoo. In his prime it would have taken
<s1. 200 to replace .'Pompey." The two
Old lions now at the Zoo are valued at
s., 900, and that their worth has in |
creased maybe seen when it is said that |
the two young lions, which are about 1
10 months old, are only valued at $1,000. !
The python,l12 feet long, is valued at |
800, but a 20Ifoot python or boa could |
not be got for less than $500. The Zoos |
zebra is valued at 81, 900, and could not |
be replaced at less than $1,000. The |
ostrich is very fine specimen, and is
valued at $500