The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-12
BIG MONEY FOR PELTS
sKuNks RANK HIGH IN THE FUR
PRICE LIST 900
There Is Much Wealth Walking About
in the Woods of the Northwest
Bears and Silver Fox Bring Much
Lucre to Those Who Get Their
Hides

No longer is there any excuse for a
healthy mali to lie around st. Paul
during the autumn months and bewail
the fate that makes him poor or unem-
ployed
The woods are full of money, or at
least. if he knows where to look, he
may find spots where they fairly TEEN
with that wherewith gold may be ac-
quired in large quantities.
All that is needed is some kind of a
gun and ticket to the wilds. And
then he may hunt the elusive skunk
and make good living thereby; on
dull days he can venture downward
and take shot at a dog or two and
still be in the money-making class.
But if he is really ambitious and
manages to drop salt on the tails of a
few silver foxes he will be in a posi-
ton to sit on a stump at eventide and
sing to the shade of old trapper, j. j.
Astor, the First, the little ditty about
going Back, back, back"
-Four silver reynards per diem will
force his daily earnings to the $1,000
mark.
Even the lowly, despised skunk, may
be made, when sufficiently dead, to
serve as a means of getting into the
class of affluence now monopolized by
the plumber and the coal man.
Four of these mephitis mephitica a
day will almost enable him to buy a
piece of coal or two when he gets back
to civilization, as they are listed in the
price list offered to hunters by local
fur buying firm as high as $3.50 each.
Big Money for Roosevelt.
To the man who cares to take chanc-
es with mountain lions in preference
to skunks the concern offers $3.50-if
| they're first-class ones-and all the
way down to SO cents However, con-
sidering the relative danger and trou-
BILE in getting at them and dogs 1t
would seem to be rather an inconsist-
ent fact that good dog pelt will bring
40 cents in the market.
Bear skins, according to the locality
whence they come and the condition
Of the fur, range from half dollar to
$50, which ought to be a good tip for
the persons who have been engaged in
the bear hunting game on the streets
of Duluth, where fourteen bruins have
been killed within the last few days.
Other prices offered are as follows:
Oller, 81 TO ~; mink, 1U cents 10 So.oU,
marten, 25 cents to SIS; lynx, rs cents
to 81; fox, other than silver, 10 cents to
| $11; badger, 10 cents to Sill; beaver, rs
! cents to $3.50; raccoon, Is cents to
| $3.50; wolf, 10 cents to SO; wolverine,
81 to 81; muskrats, cents to Is cents.
Cats Are VaIuabIe-Dead.
But the offer which will strike terror
to the heart of the gentle owner of
purring Tables and cause a CORE
spending amount of joy to the small
boy is that of Is cents for house cats
the low point being 5 cents-this prob
ably being for the genus alley.
This figure is liberal, apparently, as
the man eating wildcat of the North
in all his free and terrible glory, is
only a commodity in the 10 to 70-cent
class, duly skinned and ticketed.
But to go back to the beginning
whoever heard of a proud woman at
Christmas time replying to a question
as to her beautiful new furs," say:
Yes, aren't they perfectly lovely?
My husband says the man told him
they were real, genuine Minnesota
skunk-and the trimmings little John
ME next door killed with brick down
behind Clancy's saloon |