The Alaska daily empire., 1920-02-03
FUR SALES ARE
 SMASHING ALL
 KNOWN RECORDS
Prices Not Advanced; Ger man Buyers at St. Louis
 First Time Since 1913

ST, LOUIS, Feb 3.-Sales of furs
 at the International Fur Exchanges
 annual auction, which opened yes first day. Prices have not advanced
 but very little, the sales showed Fore than four million dollars
 worth of furs were sold yesterday. The sale will last two weeks in- stead of the ten days which prevail
 ed at the September sale. President Philip B. Fouke amour ced that twenty eight car loads of furs had arrived in the last two days and that, although eight stores and | warehouses had been rented through out the city, it had been necessary also to rent the old Southern Hotel as a storage place for the excess furs. The entire lower floor of the former hostelry is now covered with the bales.
 So great is the aggregate of ship ments that the total at the pending sale will be in excess of the totals at the five other internationally known auctions-the New York and the four London sales.
 World Fur Supply President Fouke also stated that the sale would be unique. inasmuel,t as it would contain the majority of the furs available today in the world. This is due to the conditions in !! Russia.
 we heard from our agency in Vladivostok that in the battle of
 November IS. fighting was going on
 within half block of our building.
 but no one of our staff was hurt" he said. But at the same time the
 Bolsheviki managed to get as far as
 Irkutsk, thus cutting off the region
 that produces about S5 per cent of
 the vast Russian fur crop. "At the same time the Australian
 Government has put an embargo on
 some of its most valuable skins for
 period of two years. so the game
 can increase They have shiped us
 tremendous quantity of rabbit and fox skins however So at present St. Louis contains majority of the raw skins in the world"
 Shipments were on hand, he added from China, Japan. Australia, Siberia, India, South America, Switzerland, Holland. Belgium, Norway, Spain
 and Italy, besides Russia A ship i ment of German mole and fox skins has been permitted under special dispensation of the United States Government :.
 German buyers will appear at the sale for the first time in some years. A party of twenty three buyers has obtained permission to come to this sale by way of Holland, under per init of the government.
 Total invoices for the sale total over $'5,0OO,O00 More than 600 buy CTS from all parts of the world are here A party of Russian shippers
 came from Siberia.
 $500 Russian Stables Among the shipments are $500
 Russian sable skins, now extremely VoiudUic, Ludt arc cotiuudICu ot ~A' 500,000. Silver fox skins to the
 number of 1900, of exceptional quail ity, have already arrived and are estimated at $500,000. Japanese
 marten and mink and squirrel skins
 arrived in. large numbers, also large
 quantities of Chinese dog mats,
 much used in making coats for.
 stockmen. Sealsk.ns from the United States Government, dyed in St. Louis
 with a dye which is pronounced the
 finest in the world, have been sent here in large numbers. Commission CT of Fisheries. H. M, Smith is at i tending for the United Statesand
 w. A. Found of Canada is here for
 his government Eight sea otter
 skins. now very rare. are in the con signment from abroad. Holland
 sends 100000 of rabbit skins. I A dinner will be given to the buy
 CTS on February at the Jefferson
 Hotel. where the models will wear the latest fashions in fur designs by Otto Kahn, of New York. America has to provide the world
 with furs." said Fouke. ''and this years business will break all records
 Last wear our business amounted to .. $35. 100000. This year it will reach
 s65.0Oo. 900.