The sun., 1912-05-26
CANADA LYNX SKINS
IN GREAT DEMAND
TrspperS Who Used to Be Glad
70 Get s. for Them Now
Receive $40 Apiece.
HABITS or THE ANIMAL
Runs Like an Express Train and
Fights Like Il Dynamo and
n Gang Saw Together.

day whiCh h0u the rheCt O1 apprlS-
ing me Of two things. says writer
IN outing. One was that | had
dropped behind the procession, the other
,ha, my old time friend the Canada
vn1 had grown into a gentleman OF some
Importance in the commercial world.
Il have long desired and coveted
sleigh robe Of lynn skins. have u Norsk
friend who is a trapper. ! met him on
the street few days ago and said to him.
ole. want six prime lynx skins to make
sleigh robe
So. he replied -How much WI tank
ia. lynx skin cost
! would bc willing to pay from 81 to
"a apiece for them
For answer Ole hauled ont a price
l,s W an Eastern fur house and showed
me- where prime lynx skins were worth
80 each have spent some hours figur-
ins out how much ! would be worth now
4 lynx skins had been thai price when W.
s-s' settled in Idaho One spring We
shipped lis vnx skins and got on an aver
average of 81 each for them. and We were
'l"klad 10 death 10 set it.
This Canada lynx that has so suddenly
grown fashionable is an interesting ami
MAJ Naturalists and pseudo natural
So have written about him. but there is
much vet 20 tell to mon who desire TO
know how he lives and where
like his cousin the cougar. the lynx
is difficult animal 10 locate ill hunting.
hut unlike the larger ca, he does not slip
away IN the brush unless he ia reasonably
sur. YOU have seen him first IL he i'm
AGNES himself undiscovered he v u crouch
down on the snow where his gray body
blends so perfectly that he Is as hard TO
see a. a snow. shoe rabbit
He l. more arboreal than the cougar
too. and once in tree he has trick Of
stretching full length on n limb, his head
between his front paws. ears laid back
close to his head. in which attitude il re-
quires keen eye 10 separate him from the
bark. what though YOU may almost know
that he is in that particular tree. BY FAR
the larger number OF our lynx were killed
before the hounds. though the steel trap
account ad tor several.
The INnX l. IA strictly noCt uynal ANNA l.
50 far as my w!edge extends. he never
hunts in the daylight. The most appro-
PIRATE time 10 starr upon his traii i IN
nv his night proving has had the time to
dssipate
The favorite location is an upland
iarch thlcket where the -nowshoe rabbits
and partridges congr"gate in winter
These are his principal winter food and
he knows full we'll wher. TO find theta
on winters morning you may sae as
many lynx a. rabbit tracks around a
Copse Of this character
During the day the lynx does not
stray far from his feeding ground He
will be found either in jhe thcket itself
or in an adjacent gulch beneath a fallen
log or the overhang Of ii cti' or rock
lfthe dogs take the track AT all II IL reason
ably sure they will start the game within
a short run.
The rapidity with which a lynx takes
tree when jumped del.ud- largely
upon the condition Of the snow. If the
snow is dry and powdery he may rum for
several miles while # il i Wet and sticky
re will collect balls Of il on his hairy feet
and soon tire. have known them o II,
DOWN. gnaw the sno~ba!ir on their
feet, then get up and 60 again
A full grown lynx with the proper
stimulus behind HIM is no slouch of a
foot racer His legs are rather long IN
proportion 70 his body and he covers the
now in long, regular leaps which eat
NJ distance like an express train.
We're he 10 keep 81 straghtaway course
there is no dog on earth thar could over
haul him. but III fact II ~ a aimost lmpos-
sple to get him TO leave his feeding
ground
In this too he differs from the cougar
Who seems TO have no choice, but will
light out for the other county a. soon
a. he finds the dogs on his trail A sound
lynx will fight when he /. cornered and
cannot escape, but wounded lynx is
the veritable Spirit Of Battle He Is a
power sausage mill. n gang saw and an
electric dynamo oil tied up together in a
loose, gray hide hung on his frame in such
manner tina, he can turn himself around
IN It without any trouble whatever
dog gets "A lynx by the throat and
ssefully starts To choke the animal to
death. when To his surprise and conster-
nation the animal whirls around in his
ss.n and hands that dog kick that puts
him ont of the running. perhaps per-
rnanently The lynx will use his front
avs as weapons occasionally " and can
strike "a powerful blow with them. but he
nspenGs largely upon his hind feet for
defence
watched a lynx family moving out
one day. II was an interesting sight
S8s cruising out a mountain road TO a
dump Of cedar timber that we intended
:" harvest and had no weapon but my
cruisers AK While creeping silently
through the timber heard a cat mewing
seated myself on a fallen log just in the
ge Of the dense timber and waited and
watched Presently ! located the sound
a. coming from fallen hollow cedar a
lew rods from where sat.
Shortly "A lynx appeared at the open
ing looked back into the hollow. and
sHad encouragingy. She was joined
10y Two half grown kittens that stood
blinking ~ the bright sunlight, The old
me moved off a few feet and called TO her
hrood They todded out and joined her,
she PLAYED with them. cutting them over,
nl'ns d, them. mewing and purring ex-
a',y d. tabbv does with her family.
In short time she moved on and again
stopped and Coaxed them to follow 1t
'ook her half an hour 10 lead them into
'h' protection Of the forest. My AK was
rrt an elective weapon and had ! been
"'herwi-e armed could not have brought
myself to modest the scene"