The Kusko times., 1929-01-12
STORY OF DEVELOPMENT
 OF THE FUR INDUSTRY IS
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of Canada, John B. Marshal, Juneau attorney, who owns fur farm near, Mendenhall glacier, summarizes. the development of the fur industry Anl reprint of ] his article appeared in a recent issue of Stroller's Weekly. as follows:.,
 There is outstanding interest thru the Canadian. Northwest today in the amazing :. development of the un- dressed fur market of the United States 1t is the big economic fact in the development of the fur-mer- chandizing industry of the world.
 in pre-war days the United States annually imported but S15,00000o of raw furs. Between 1910-14 the an- nuai average was $14,700,000 Last year the imports went up to S123,- O00000.A And this represents. in the manufactured article, approximately s2G0, ,5Ua,000. The American people offer a fur market which surpasses anything previously known. And. what is of special importance, the States -are reaping the chief profit. from the increasing mania for furs.. It is in. the manufacturing end of the romantic game that the big profit lies. The United States wears the most ex- pensive fur garns entts of today worn and it also manufactures them.
 In pre-war days London was the raw fur-marketing center of the conmercial world, as Russian was the. country. where the most expensive finished furs were bought. Of course the trade knows this, but the average. man on.woman does not appreciate the change. Today many tourists through the Canadian Northwest buy fur garments under the impression that, being near<the vast region from whence comes much of the raw ma- teriai, they can purchase more econ omically than in St. Louis, Chicago, New. York, Boston or Cincinnati. In truth, 1.-the chances are in. favor of buying. fur coat that was manufac- turod lin the American city from whence they have come. They have paia the duty that was imposed when the raw pelt went into the States frone,a1 sanada and the customs tariff on the manufactured article when it came back across the border.
 Tnaispeople nearest to the vast Northland pay more for a fur coat than those thousands of miles9 re- moved. from the 'trapline."
 Sixty per cent of Canada,s fur ,ex- ports last year. went to the :, United States.s This year it is predicted that American manufacturers will buy, at least 80 per cent of the catch. from the Canadian Northwest. Americas domination has made big dicerence in the trapping industry through the Hudson Bay region. For instance. in 1910 the raw fur exported. to all coun- tries by Canada had a. values of but $3,680,949, so valued by customs off cials. London was the: objectives of the Hudsion'c Bay Company's big shipments as we'll as of the other large dealers in raw furs.
 But the war disturbed conditions, among. United Kingdom firms; that for 200 Ysars had been handling the product of the. pioneer organizations in and around Hudson's Bay. During the var Russia passed out of the picturs, where she had for centuries, been the largest consumer of the richest furs in the world. The prize belts of the Canidan trap line were a. drug on the market.
 Every effort was made in the re- mote reaches of Northwest Canada to curtail proauction. There were limit ed funds fer the industry and more limited market for the raw products. Gradually the tide changed United .-.