Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-15
WEALTH IN BELGIAN HARES
Two Sides to the Question Of Raising Them
for Money Making.
Circular Sent out In Regard TO the
Alleged Value OF Harcsklns
for Rurs.

Now that the Belgian hare fad Is
taking hold, and much has been pub
lshed In favor OF the animals as wealth
producers. It Is but just TO the people
TO give something that Is presented on
the other side. In salt Lake the
market now has a boom, and quite a
number OF people have become inter-
ested In the way Of prospective wealth
getting, where their Investments may
not turn out as expected.
The Belgian hare Is a beautiful ami
NAL, with good flesh. ard is raised with
a fair amount Of care. The real value
OF does Is an the way from So 20 $50 In
the ordinary market according 90 the
perfection OF the animal aa 10 points
The value OF bucks range from s. 10 $50
on the same rules. Recently these
figures have been run up much higher,
principally for imported animals An
Illustration OK an importation Is given
In one case where a fine doe was pur-
chased IN this city from q local breeder
Tor Sli. sent away and billed az
$500 animal, and some OF her offspring
resold here. TO persons unfamiliar ,lth
the facts, at $50 each. In the case \
bucks. a So animal has been carted
around till It comes back here as a 500
beauty. This illustrates some of the
proceedings OF the fad, OF course there
are In the legitimate business bucks
whose value is $3.50 among fanciers, and
does hat reach threc-hfths of that sum,
but there are many animals billed az
high prices Ia the boom now that
really can be duplicated right here az
a small proportion Of the sum asked
by some hare merchants SO IL Is
worth while for hare struck people to
look around a little.
Anent this subject. here Is part Of
circular sent out BY well known MIN
neap0lis house, the Northwestern Hide
and Fur company, which deals with the
value Of hareskins as follows:
Dear Sir-We have received an Inn
mense number of Inquiries TO know
what we are paying for Belgian hare
skins Thousands OF farmers through
out the country are being humbugged
by being induced TO 90 into the Belgian
hare business. and the press has been
imposed upon by the shrewd manipula-
tors of this scheme They say that
immense fortunes are easily made by
raising the hares for market. They in
form the press that the skins are
worth from SOC TO s. each, and that the
meat finds ready sale in all the leading
markets of our country az zoe per
pound. There is no demand whatever
for the skins; and there is no regular
market In any Of the cities IN the COun-
try. In a small way they may be sold,
but there Is a large number now
raised, which Is proven by the numer.
GUS inquiries we have as TO what we
win give for their skins, and asking as
where they can find sale for the meat,
with or without being dressed There
is no present market for them in New
York. Philadelphia, Boston or san
Francisco. There was one humbug
firm. WOodmaor & Co., Of San Fran
cisco, that adyertiad last winter 10 buy
their skins. This was part Of their
fake scheme. for We wrote 10 them
twice, asking them what they paid for
skins and we got no reply. We wrote
20 the publishers who had their ad-
vertisements In their journals. They
wrote us that they had never received
any pay for their advertisement and
they now believed as we did that they
were a fraud and took out their adyer-
tisement The skins have no more
value IN this country than the common
hare Of Ike size. The fur is only used
in this country for 'hatters' stock and
the Belgian hare skins from foreign
countries can be had dressed and dried
for less than one-fOurth what these
humbugs claim the skin Is worth here
II Is the poorest and cheapest OF an
furs being so tender that there Is no
wear 20 H. We are greatly annoyed
by farmers and others asking us what
skins are worth as fur Win you
kindly aid US I'm exposing this humbug
business? There Is one part Of this
there is no fake IN; that's the wonder
full way they increase In numbers"