The daily progressive-miner., 1916-05-02
OF INTEREST TO
 FUR DEALERS
FOXES BRING HIGH PRICES, SAYS AN EXPERT FUR
 BUYER.

the foremost fur dealers in Ameri- ca, MT A. B. Shubert, president of A. B. Shubert, Inc, Chicago, U Ss A. (the largest house in the world dealing exclusively in American raw furs) we take pleasure in quoting an accurate report of conditions ex- isting in the American raw fur markets and prediction of the future for the leading articles.
 MT. Shubert says: Notwithstand- ing the European war, the war talk at home and the unceasing eff forts of a great many large manu- lecturers to depress the market. the unusual large collection of northwestern furs has been market ed at a much higher price than the trappers and dealers could reason ably expect. It is really remark able how well our western market has stood up under the pressure of tiic tuNS1Sc SOiiutiAuiiS SuIiOtuulllsS it. Stocks in the hands of dealers in the primary markets are small and small collectors and dealers in the country are practically sold out. Receipts at all primary markets are large for this time of the year. Should business with our manufact- urers be as good this fall as they anticipate it will be from the quan- tity of early orders that they are now receiving, they will find no difficulty in disposing of the entire output of their factories and will be obliged to come into the market for further purchases of raw ma terial.
 It is impossible for one to say which has been the best selling ar ticle this season. Every article seemed to have friends. However. foxes seem to be the most active with lynx a close second. The low price of some articles attracted purchasers, while in the case of otn- CT furs it seems as if the higher the price was lifted the more buy CTS there were for them and the better the buyers liked them
 They all want some kind of Q fox. The demand for long haired furs is the fad and fancy of the day. Fox is not a seryiceable fur. everybody knows that, but it don't stop the demand or the price. Some day they will take a drop. Today red, cross, white, silver and black and blue fox bring record prices. The demand is here and may stay all winter. They make very at tractive articles and sell extreme ly well. The adies want them re- gardless of the fact of their wear ing qualities. Foxes are the fash ionable article of the day, and that alone establishes the price, Any old fox will do, but it must be fox.
 Marten-Alaska and far northern collection of marten are selling very freely and we are of the opinion that the demand will continue thru out the summer and fall. The west ern marten or the light-furred skins are in about the same class as mink. This class of marten has a few friends. "Shubert" is one of them We have always carried an ex- tremely large quantity of this sec tion marten, and have done it cheerfl,iiy Manufacturers have wori.,d them in the past, and some one will get them started again on the upgrade.
 Mink-sorry to say we cannot see bright spot in the market for mink. They will come back some day, but that is an indefinite time. At present they are extremely hard to sell at the prevailing low price. They say "every dog has his day" and 'the cats have the night" The mink don't seem to cut in on eith- CT, night or day. @shubert" likes 'em, have made money on them in the past and will stick to lem just the same, win or lose.