The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-06

eyer-frozen north. but they would not find it there, as it is worn by the chin chilla, among the rocks on the heights of the Andes Mountains in Chill and Peru. It is a small animal, somewhat after the style of tine chipEnunk, a gray animal striped with white. The fur is softer than any known manufacture of man. and when dressed is about six inches wide by foot long in the ex- treIne portions. squaring about four by eight inches These skins sell from three to fourteen dollars apiece, depend ing upon the size and quality. They are used to trim collars and cuffs, one hide being required for each cuff and several for a collar The fur is far from durable and is one of the most expensive furs to maintain in good shape, as it must be renewed practical ly every season.
 If one is looking for the fur which has advanced the most in price in the last year they would probably strike it the first time, as it is that of the ermine A year ago ernine skins sold as low as
 forty and fifty cents each; to-day the
 nominal price is one dollar for the skin al it comes from the animal, with little
 to be found The coronation of the king of England took all of the available fur
 of this animal in the market, and those who would wear the royal fur now find
 it practically impossible to secure it.. The most popular of the wild furs Of the country to-day is that of the red fox, al- %.,,4 ia h SlTy the wearer of fur garments, and is de- cidedly out of style But the fur of the blue fox is very much worn. So far as
 known there never was blue fox on earth in it's proper season, but the dy- CTS have at last succeeded in blending the fur of the red fox so that it appears as blue and it has caught the popular fancy. The cross fox sells at very much the same price as does also the gray fox. The hides of coyotes and wolves are treated now in the same manner and there has been consider able advance in those fllrs in their nat ural state. But fur of the skunk is the | best all-around fur to be found, for II can be made to parade under more dis
 guises than any other, and it is de- pendable fur in every respect. A good green fur to-day will bring about $l.SC 1 on the market, and when it has left the hand of the dresser will command all most any price, depending upon the 1 treatment it has received. This fur IS known to the trade as brown marten
 and as such is worn by all persons whc 1 wear furs at all.
 1 Everything is fish that comes to the l furrier's net, and the common ciVet cat l with it's mottled coat, Is purchased free ly. but not at the price commanded bS its larger cousin, the skunk. These cal skins sell at fifteen cents each in natu ral state, but are not wanted dressed They are not used at all in the Unltec States as it is impossible to remove tht white hair from the brown as can b' done with the skunk. In Europe there is a demand for them, but they canno
 be shipped in dressed, and for that req son the undressed skin alone is Wortl any price.
 l The most of the coats worn in thl
 mart of the country are from imported furs from domestic animals, the furs fthe Persian sheep and astrachah lThere has been slight advance in th'
 nrice of these furs, but the percentag is not so high as the advance on Wil' lfurs.
 ! One of the scarce furs is that of tn heayer. It will in short time be lmemory unless some plan is devised b! (which they can be in measure domes !