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Theoretically fur is something to be gotten for nothing
By Courtney Ryley Cooper,
Author of '7He Last Frontier.

1t isn't because they hate the trader that they
haggle with him. AS long as the fur trade is
in their hands it represents something concrete,
something they can understandable long
months they've put in to get it, the hard trips
over the trap line, the cold and loneliness and
danger. But when that fur has been trans
formed into money 1t becomes valueless to most
of them. AS far as the trader Is concerned, he
is often the trappers best friend.
For instance, If were to count all the side
lines of fur n aiding part of the cost of car
rying on business, my books would show con-
sistent loss. know a great many trappers.
Some I have argued into saving money, which
entails my doing their banking business for
them and doing out to them what cash they
should need for their winters work. I never
come back to civilization without at least
score Of errAuds to run, traps to buy, letters to
write for men who cannot use pen, reports of
law infracttons to be made to the police. I've
even purc1RAed q wedding trousseau and
brought in wooden leg for repairs. buy
clothing, caSAD equipment, settle love affairs or
unsettle them, loan money without interest, col
lect bad debts, furnish ball. assist the police and
act as an unofficial envoy between Indians and
the Government.
Once I lent halfbreed $50 with which to
bury his baby. He had no money no possess
sions except one beaver skim which at that time
part payment
mo, john" said, you'd better keep it.
There may be some other expenses and the
money might come in handy"
Evidently there were other expenses. He
kept the beaver skin, and about that time
beaver began TO 60 up. When it reached $50
John came In to civilization with the same skin
ne had offered me before and squared the debt
I've often wondered what woman got that pelt
and what she would think If she knew that it
represented funeral
But for that matter, every piece of fur has a
history. There were the stacks and stacks of
skins, for instance, which came out of the
Northwest some years ago as the result of an
invasion of free traders into a country where
the inhabitants always had dealt with one of
the big companies.
They're hidebcund, these big outfits The
Indians never ere out of debt to some of them
borrowing in the Su;nmer upon ther fur catch
of the next White: AM ic,SjKx saat chat IL
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W0feJoqOl Populatioa.

THE Biological Survey is undertaking what, ON
the face Of II, seems like a hopeless task,
yet which is merely q question of ratios, pro-
-viding the sportsmen Of the country cooperate.
Uncle Sam wants to know what the water
fowl population Of the country is To find out,
5000 ducks viii be banded and hunters every
where are TO be requested to report any ducks
killed bearing the bands If, for instance, 600
banded ducks were reported killed and at the
same time 100000 other ducks were reported
bagged by hunters for the year. 1t would mean
that there are 100000 ducks in the country.
BY careful check-up each year it will be
possible to obtain fairly accurate estimate
after each season of just what the duck Scpula-
ton is.
The same would hold true for othe agra
cory waterfowl.
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using poison and imported bait I told them
that as soon as they quit doing this themselves
something might be done regarding the white
trapper."
This incidentally, is not merely an incident
of one district Of the North; it Is an example OF
many: There the trappers are in the same po-
sition as the farmer who fed his seed corn to
the hogs The breeders have been mined out;
there is nothing to furnish supply.
THE cause of 1t? One is the improvidence of
the trapper. If furs are high, he traps all
he can get because they will mean more money.
When the bottom drops out of the business, as
it did last Winter following the stock market
collapse, he traps harder than ever so that he
may make up for smaller prices by Q larger
number Of skins For other causes Of fur deple-
ton add greed and trickery.
When some unsuspecting woman buys fur
in cheap fur store in New York and allows the
proprietor to wrap 1t up, instead of carrying 1t
out over her arm, she may find surprise on
her return home. The fur doesn't look quite as
good it did In the store, for the simple reason
that it has been substituted, and the purchaser
bewails the present-day methods of merchan-
dising. But it isn't new; the history of greed
in the fur business goes back to it's beginnings.
The longest barreledE rifles in the world were
always to be found In the fur districts of the
North when Indian piled beaver skins to
the height of the gun he got that gun in ex-
change, and the more barrel there was the more
beaver skins 1t brought.
Theoretically, fur is something to be gotten
for nothing, and that excites the most ava
ricious instincts men possess. The present-day
limitations, the substtutions, the multiplicity of
trade names for what may be cat or wolf or
rabbit-all these little tricks are rooted deeply.
There is even an axiom in the fur business that
to be popular fur must not be priced too
cheaply. If it is, a woman suspects it or be-
lieves that every other woman can have it, and
therefore refuses to buy it.
But the strange part of greed as it concerns
the trapper at least, is the fact that it is in
tangible. 1 have haggled for hours with trap
pers over bid and then, as soon as the money
has changed hands, watched them walk forth
with their pockets wide open have seen them
give that money away 70 persons they did not
even know.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27

~ WO sorts of fortune-hunters have
always had my sympathy One of
them is the prospector, working away
the best years of his life to find a
- mine with the usual result that he
The Ely miner., 1930-05-23

bert, Mantel, Starkman and Veranth.
Absent: None.
Moved by Jones, supported by Lam
bert that the minutes of the regular
meeting of April 9th and special meet
ing of April 14th, 1880 be approved as
read. Motion carried unanimously.
Moved by Anderson, supported by
Lambert that the district employ one
of the baseball players as one of the
groundmen during the baseball season
at a salary of one hundred twenty-five
dollars per month beginning June End,
1880. Ayes: Anderson, Lambert,
Mantel, Starkman and Veranth.
Nays: Jones. Motion carried.
Communication from Max M. Herseth
asking for reinstatement was read
and laid on the table for further con-
Sideration
Bids for the installation of dust
The Ely miner., 1930-05-23
lOEEDINGSOF THE
1HOOLBOARD
DISTRICT NO. II.

:, Minnesota, May 13, 1880.
r meeting of the Board of
n of Independent School Dis
II was called to order at
hirty o'clock P. M. by the
n, E. H. Starkman. On roll
following members were found
esent: Anderson, Jones, Lam
The Ely miner., 1930-05-23
Americas Nationas Emblem

The bald eagle was adopted by the
United States as the national emblem
In 1882. This bird ranges about three
feet in length, with wing spread of
perhaps seven.
The Ely miner., 1930-05-23
A REORGANIZATION SURE

Friend (referring to newborn babeJ
Just think, Tom, there's your son
having his first day of crying.
Dad-I can hardly think 1t is Jim
sounds to me like he's had lot Of
practice before.
The Ely miner., 1930-05-23

Eagle Lock Co., Maintenance, 5.72
East End Shoe Shop, Repair
Track Shoes, .............. .3U
Educational Test Bureau,
IeSCS, iO.to
Ely Bakery, Supplies, ........ 1875
Ely Gas & Oil Co., Supplies, 102.15
Ely Hardware Co., Supplies, BIO
Ely Lumber Co., Maintenance, 1925
Ely Miner, Publishing, ..... 39.15
Ely Pharmacy, Supplies, -. 41.1o
Farmers Power & Light Co.,
Electricity, commemorative. 5.ol
Carl Fischer, Supplies, ...... 8.97
Chas Gorshe, Supplies. ..... 37.05
August Haapala, Supplies, -. 87.21
Gust w. Hill, Saving Wood, 1900
/ H. r. Hunting Co., Library
BOOKS, oIoo
James Drug Store, Supplies, 1205
Josten Manufacturing Co.,
SuppneS, o5z
| Kapsch Bros, Supplies, -. 5292
Kelly-How-ThomSon Co.,
supplies, oz5
| Joseph Klun, Supplies, ...... 3285
Arvo Knuuti, Supplies, ...... 1000
Laing Hardware Co., Sup
| pies, zooo
Library of Congress, Library
| Cards, -. .................. S.zz
Linde Air Products Co., Oxy-
| gen, .................. OBI
Lowe g. Campbell Co., Sup
pueS, ................ LII
Marshall Wells Co., Supplies
and Equipment, ...... 56.12
P. D. McCarty, Inoculations, $500
Mcknight & Mcknight, Sup
1 .Uh
Miller Store Co., Supplies, :. 1852
Minneapolis Paper Co., Sup
plies, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .6O
Northland Seed & Nursery
Co., Seed, .......... $50
Northwestern Blaugas Co.,
BlaugaS, Sfou
Mrs. August Ojala, Supplies, 58.14
Oliver Iron Mining Co., Sup
| plies, l.UO
Oxweld Acetylene Co., Sup
| pies, .zU
Theordore Partti, Supplies, :. 48.42
Pete's Garage, Supplies, -. 4770
Prest-O-Lite Co., Acetylene, 1882
Range Oil Products Co., Sup
plies, 104.40
Range Paper Co., Supplies, :. 26.01
Range Typewriter Co., Main
| Cenance, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 0.UU
Remington Rand Business
Service, New Equipment :. 4.36
Rikhus & Vertin, Supplies, :. 21.53
j. A. Rothman, Supplies, -. 21.0o
st. Paul Blk. & Staty. Co.,
Library Books, ........... 6.52
John A. Salzer Seed Co.,
supplies, .................. 2l.U0
Sanitary Service Co., Sup
plies, ..... $4,000
Paul A. Schmidt Music Co.,
sheridan Rn Grocery Supplies, 1888 ss
Shipman Hospital, Physical
Examination, ............. 200
Frank Skala, Supplies, ...... 1926
Thurston Manual Training
Supply Co., Supplies, ...... 1922
Town of Fall Lake Electricity, 315O
United Products Co., Supplies, 62.00
Frank Veranth, Fuel ...... 1,065.21
World Book Co., Tests, ...... 1856
| lOIdl, t0,OOttO
Moved by Lambert, supported by
Mantel that the report of the Com
mittee on Finance be approved and
the proper officers be authorized to
issue vouchers in payment of the var
ious amounts. Motion carried unani-
mously.
Moved by Lambert, supported by
Veranth that the acquisitions for Art
and General Supplies for the ensuing
school year, and supplies for the
Buildings and Grounds, Dental Clinic
and Industrial Departments be ap-
proved and referred to the Sales &
Purchasing Committee with power to
act Motion carried unanimously.
| Moved and supported that the
meeting adjourn until 7:30 o'clock P.
M, May 21st, 1890. Carried
JOSEPH VERANTH,
| Secretary.
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q moment. On one flight there was a
miss in picking up the bag owing to an
improper placement Of the cup to which
the mail sack to be picked up is fastened
and into which ball on the end of the
dragged to make the pickup.
Pilot Sebree's Work Lauded.
One of the outstanding features of
the weeks demonstrations has been the
consistently good flying of Trowbridge
Sebree, chief pilot for the Clifford Ball
mail and passenger airline, who has
flown the New Standard plane used for
all the tests. Scores of times he has
flown over the device, which from the
air looks no larger than a postage
stamp, trailing a mail sack at the end
of cable into the opening of the chute.
The keenest judgment of height and
wind are necessary to make the con-
tact successfully, even though the plane
is stalled down to speed of 80 miles
per hour. Only twice in more than 100
attempts, however, did Sebree miss the
chute and then only when unexpected
gusts of wind caught the trailing mail
sack and whirled it away from the
chute opening.
Fred Streck of the staff of DR.. Lytle
S. Adams, dental surgeon of Seattle, the
inventor of the pickup, operated the
reel in the airplane which discharged
and received the loads in the cargo
cockpit of the plane. Many Government
ofhcials and members of Congress have
witnessed the tests during the week.
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A|RMA|L PICKUP
UNDERGOES TEST
P. 0. Official to Report
Whether or Not Device Will
Be ServiceabIe.

Following a week of flight demon
STATIONS of the Adams airmail pickup
at Hoover Field, F. E. Smith, assistant
s,,perintendent of the contract airmail
sivision of the Post ONCE Department,
is preparing a report to the department
which NAV determine whether this de-
vice will be approved as an accessory
tn the present airmail service to permit
The discharge and picking up of mail
bv airmail planes at points where land
ing facilities are not available.
A series of $50 consecutive runs
was ordered by the department at
Hoover Field so that Mr.. Smith might
make a check on the number of misses
or incompleted deliveries or pick-ups.
one hundred of the runs were to COM
bine discharge and pickup OF mail
sacks, rs discharges alone and Is pick
ups alone.
Informal Count Shows Averages.
While Mr.. Smiths report probably
will not be made until early this week
an informal count of pick-ups made
during the past five days shows very
high average Of successful discharges
and pick-upS under weather conditions
varying from strong and gusty cross
winds to head and tail winds and dead
calm and with mail sacks weighing
from to 100 pounds.
Twice in some $50 operations there
were clean misses, owing to gusts OF
wind sweeping the trailing mail sack
away from the opening to the pickup
chute. In both cases the plane made
a short circle and completed the opera
ton successfully with the loss of only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
HIGH COMBAT FLYING
TO BE TRIED BY PILOTS
Members of 95th Pursuit Squadron,
California, to Attempt Formation
at $4,000 Foot Altitude.

Combat formation flying at attitudes
I of $4,000 feet will be undertaken at
Rockwell Field, San Diego, Calf, by
pilots of the 95th Pursuit Squadron,
Army Air Corps, which has just taken
delivery of the first five planes of an
order of 90 Boeing 9-12 pursuit planes,
powered with Wasp air-cooled engines
and supercharged for extreme altitude
flying.
Preliminary high altitude work has
been in progress for several months
at Rockwell Field. formations OF two
and three ships having been flown.
Larger formations have been impossi-
bic because Of lack of SUFFICIENT planes.
The 95th will be the FIRST pursuit
squadron to receive its quota OF the
new P-l2's, after which deliveries viii
be made to the 1st Pursuit Group,
Selfridge Field, Mich, and other pursuit
units. One or two of the new ships
will be delivered at Boiling Field later
IN the Summer.
The P-12 has a wing span OF 80
feet and weighs approximately one ton
with pilot and full military load. These
planes have flown from the ground to
10000 feet and back in less than hVe
minutes and have reached maximum
attitudes of more than 10000 feet.
The Navy uses an identical type OF
plane as fighter, with the addition OF
an arresting gear attachment for use IN
landing aboard the aircraft carriers.
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A|RPLANE SERVICE
SHOWS PROGRESS
U. S.-South America Mail and
Passenger Line Covers
1900 Miles.
During the year which has just been

During the year which has just been
concluded since the Inauguration by
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh of the first
Pan American Always airlnan and
passenger line between the united
States and South America. the operat-
ing system of the company has grown
from 26l miles to $4,000 miles, connect
ing rs countries.
Col. Lindbergh a year ago this month
few the first plane on scheduled serv-
ice over, the route from Miami; fla, 10
Cristobal, Canal Zone. Since that time
route after route has been added to
what is today one of the worlds great
est international air transport systems.
Today the company is operating II
airports and over its airways is flying
A multi-engined transport planes. 1t
has on order the two largest commercial
TRANSPORT planes ever built In this coun-
try and. except for the German DO-X,
the largest planes in the world. These
are 41-passenRer Sikorsky amph1bians,
each to be powered with four 52o-
horsepower engines.
Pan American Always IS operating
IS ground radio control stations today
and is constructing or has planned 90
additional stations. During the year
10000 passengers have been flown and
265 tons of airmail carried to and from
the United States over the lines to
Mexico, the West Indies, Central Amer
lea and South America. It is claimed
that 1854 per cent of all scheduled
flights called for under Post once De-
partment contracts have been COM
pleted.
The first mail fight over Pan Amer
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the officials of the National Mu-
scum.
Nearly $50 Entered.
Nearly $50 local boys exhibited
their own scale models of famous
planes and gliderS at this time.
The judges of the contest were:
Capt. E. E. Adler, Army Air Corps;
Lieut.. Comdr. A. c. Miles, Bureau
of Aeronautics, U. S. NJ, and John
Chamberlain, director of manual
training, District of Columbia
public schools.
This was the second exhibition
and contest for model planes held
under the auspices of the District
of Columbia Model Aircraft
League, the first having taken
place in the Autumn of 1928, in
the Washington Building, when
more than so boys exhibited their
models to constantly increasing
crowds of interested and enthusi-
astic onlookers.
Tools Given Winners.
The prizes this year were boxes
Of model plane builders tools to
the winner Of first place in both
junior and senior groups in all
three classes, making six awards
in all.
Each point winner in first, sec
ond or third place of any class
of plane, both junior and senior,
will be registered. in the District
Of Columbia Model Aircraft
League and will receive the
sweater emblem of the District of
Columbia Model Aircraft League.
Harold Snyder, of the Commun-
ity Center Department was in
charge of the arrangement of
planes in the exhibition.
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will be transmitted. together with the
Hampton Roads report, over the Navy
weather network.
The lower Rappahannock Valley has
a bad reputation with pilots, the Navy
Department has announced It ha!
been noted frequently by Navy pilot,
that when there is fair weather both a.
the Anacostia Naval Air Station ane
at Hampton Roads, bad weather, will
fog or thunder storms, will be encoun
tered over the mouth of the Kappa.
hammock.
A great deal OF flying Is done by the
Navy between Anacostia and Hampton
Roads, the route passing directly
through the Rappahannock storm area.
The reports from Urbanna also viii be
Of value TO commercial pilots clearing
from Anacostia for Hampton Roads.
The Army Air Corps also has quite a
bit of regular flying over this route.
from Boiling Field to Langley Field.
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/ NAVAL ACADEMY GETS
NEW TRAINING PLANES

Several of the best of the new patrol
plane types now used by the Navy will
be sent to the Naval Academy, Annapo-
lis, Md, for the Spring flying training
for midshipmen, according to the plans
of the Navy Bureau Of AeronauticS.
Two PN-l2 twin-engined patrol
planes, one ISL flying boat OF the old
tyne. one phil twin-engined patrol
plane, the latest type adopted by the
Navy; one XPB, one OLD Looming
amphibian, one XPH or xPY, the Con.
solidated twin-engined patrol plane, ana
the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadel-
phia, for the training season. ;,
Officers of VN Squadron 8, who VIII
be in charge of the training program,
recently visited the Glenn Martin plant
at Baltimore to study the progress of
construction of the PM seaplares now I,H
being constructed on order for the navy
The first PM-1 is to be sent to the Ana
costa Naval Air Station for hight
tests this Spring.
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WEATHER BUREAU AID
!. WILL ASSIST PILOTS
To Chart Thunderstorms in Rap.
pahannock Valley
* Region.

To guard pilots flying in this section
of the country against Summer thunder
storms which breed in the valley Of
the lower Rappahannock River, the
Weather Bureau has trained an airways
observer in the methods of observing
and reporting weather conditions for
the Navy weather net" and has sta
toned him at Urbanna, Va, about Is
miles from the mouth of the Kappa
hammock.
This observer will report weather
conditions at Urbanna every two hours
to the naval. ste ton at Hampton Roads,
Va. From Hampton Roads the report
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
CALL AVIATION CONGRESS,

An aviation congress of the nations
of the Americas will be held this year
in Uruguay in conjunction with the
centenary celebration of that republic,
according to a report received by the
Department of Commerce from the
consulate at Montevideo.
All outstanding aeronautical subjects
OF Importance will be proposed Tor con-
sideration. 1t was announced. In con-
nection with the congress it is pro-
posed to hold an international aero
nautical display and exposition of mill
tary airplanes, transports, aircraft mo-
tors, aerial sphotograp aerology, avia-
ton signals and other similar equip
ment.
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Contest April 5.
The contest will be held April S
at Hoover Field. Twenty five
prizes will be awarded The
awards will be given to the best
flyer in an endurance flight con-
test; to the flyer making the most
perfect take-off; the best glider
model, the best scale model and
the model showing the best work
manShip.
The judges for the contest fol-
low: Mr.. lie Gore, Maj. Luke Chris
topher, chairman of the competi-
ton committee for the National
Aeronautical Association; Maj
Harry Horton, president of Con-
gressional Airport; Frank Ed
monds, Walter Hinton, pioneer
transatlantic flyer; Capt. Roy
Fonke and Lieut.. B. H. Merchant,
U. S. Air Corps Reserve.
PendIeton Appointed.
The Junior section of the Dis
trict of Columbia Air Legion is
commencing to show promise of a
successful first season, having in
Quoted four members during the
past week. John r. Pendleton, jr..
well known local model builder,
was appointed the first instructor
of the junior section.
Pendleton announces the fol-
lowing tentative curriculum for
the first class in model building:
CD Kite building and contest. 90
Model glider building and contest.
49, Baby r. o. G. building and
contest. t4) Endurance tractor
building and contest. (5) Endur-
ance pusher, building and con-
, test. (6J Indoor commercial,
building and contest. CD Indoor
fuSelage model building and con-
test. 80 Flying scale model,
building and contest. 90 Outdoor
ships, building and contest, and
(10) Exhibition scale model, build
ing and contest.
The. contests at the expiration
of each portion of the course will
be in the nature of examinations,
and eacch junior member will be
rated on the performance of his
model, prizes being given to those
having the highest ratings. A
grand prize will be given to the
member having the highest gen.
eral average.
Ground Course Promised.
After graduating from the model
building course. the junior men,
bers will be allowed to take the
gliding course, and after COM
pletion of that will be allowed to
take the legion'S limited CONNER
cial ground school course.
1t is the sole aim of the District
of Columbia Air Legion, in offer
ing these junior memberships, to
make it possible for the boys of
Washington to learn enough
about aviation to decide whether
they wish to follow it as q career.
The true scale model contest
for workmanship was conducted
Friday and Saturday at. the
United States National Museum,
Tenth and B streets, under the
auspices of the District of Column
bia Model Aircraft League, with
the cooperation of the Office of
Public Buildings and Parks, and