The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-01-13
Commercialize Coyotes
and Muskrats
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show the American people how mucl
they are FORGETTING by not cultivatin,
greater crops of those things that ar
coated in feathers and furs. Fo
over 100 years the Hudson Bay com
pany has been gathering it's million,
and millions annually from Ameri
can fur, and the fur-bearing animal.
have been gradually dying out ant
promise to become extinct unles.
something is done to raise them IL
captivity.
May Become Extinct
In 1914 the Hudson Bay company
harvested 800 pelts of the silver
fox. Last year they harvested 800
So rapidly is the silver fox dying gu,
that unless steps are taken to raise
them in captivity those beautiful furs
that sell for thousands Of dollars
each, will soon be thing of the past
The same may be said of the red fox
the black fox and a long list of other
fur bearing animals.
Distribution OF Wealth
People of great wealth give fabu.
lous sums for furs to wear. Only
a short time ago a New York wo-
man paid $4,000 for enough fur
with which to have a coat made. A
Chicago woman has just paid $780,
600 for enough silver fox fur to
make her coat. These are except.
ional cases, but people of grea
wealth have always been and always
will be willing to pass out thei.
wealth to other people for the real
and beautiful things they want And
it is right that they should part with
their money and give people il til
humber walks of life a chance to gat
it and use it, 1t is right that the
people in the humber walks of life
should do something useful and pro-
duce something useful in exchange
for the wealth that is passed to them
A World Market
If Idaho should go to work right
away to learn how to raise fur-bear-
ing animals, and if large portion of
the population of Idaho should en-
gage in that industry, they would
never be able to make dent in the
fur market of the world, because of
the tremendous decrease in the fur
bearing animals in those vast domin-
ions like Canada and Siberia, for the
production of a single state or all
the states would not glut the market
Idaho has the natural advantages
of mountains, cold springs, warm
springs and valleys, already for pro-
ducing the finest specimens in the
world. 1t is the purpose of the as
ISOLATION | represent to organize
local units turnout the state for
teaching the young men and the
young women to raise any friend in
feathers and fJrs that they may
choose to raise-to help them to get
started just right so they may make
a success of it which will yield them
both pleasure and profit. The boys
and girls on the farms who have
such interests as these will become
as interested and will find as much
pleasure in them as did the group of
small boys at Gary, Ind, when they
became acquainted with the baby
skunk. Their interest will be inten-
sified by the friendship, the COM
the entertainment, the love
that will build up between them and
their pets and the large profits that
will come to them from the sale of
the increase or the sale of the pelts.
How to Start
But such an enterprise as this
must be conducted carefully and in
Our plan of organization
loes not make it necessary for the
person starting in business to buy
any animals. We loan them the
and if they are cared for &C
to instructions they retain
he animils just the same as if they !
lad bought them in the first place
Ind they sell the increase or do
whatever they want to with them.
Idaho Has Advantages
Idaho can produce as fine furs as
AN be produced anywhere in the
world, in the same latitude. There
s vast difference in the condition
If furs according to the way they are
If an animal is running
Wild and trots out on river where
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'reature, and this animal chances to
1t down on the ice for minute and
lis fur freezes fast, some of the fur
will be pulled out or broken off when
lie jumpes up. A fur in that condi-
Jon will not sell for nearly so much
s If that had not happened. There
re certain kinds of animals whose
ur is faded slightly by the sun, and
he furs in that condition do not
ring the top prices. The black fox
or instance, has very beautiful
ur, but there is way to develop its
loss to increase its value greatly
t very slight expense. If black
OK is captured and his fur is in good
ondition and he is put into an en-
losure where the sun does not shine
n him, or the light fall upon his
ur, for about six weeks, it will de-
elop gloss and luster of the most
xquisite beauty. The method of
filing the animal is not by shooting,
or by blow on the head, nor cut
Ing its throat, nor any of those
hfn0a that would damQ0o tho fur