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Department of Conservation of Louisiana 



The sum of $1,487.36, for which no pelts are specified, 

 was for payments made to the state on the fur tax where 

 certain dealers, buyers and trappers rendered their returns 

 in lump sums without separating the different species of 

 fur bearers. This additional sum, it might properly be 

 pointed out, would be equal to 595,944 muskrats, or the 

 same number of opossums, or 29,747 raccoons, or even a like 

 number of mink, which would swell the 5,425,014 figure 

 considerably. 



Escapes from this fur tax law were from a milllion 

 muskrat pelts or more that were smuggled over the Sabine 

 River into Texas from the rich Cameron Parish marshes; 

 and from the pelts of raccoons and opossums and mink, 

 from the central and northern sections of the state, where 

 a large number of small shipments are made each winter 

 by farmer folk and others not actually in the trapping busi- 

 ness, who do not record their catch, nor is the fur tax paid 

 as required by law. 



SEASON 1925-1926 



Species 



Muskrat . . . 

 Opossum . . , 

 Raccoon . 



Mink 



Otter 



Skunk 



Civet cat . . 

 Ring tail cat 

 Wild cat . . 



Fox 



Wolf 



Trappers' licenses 



Fur buyers' licenses 



Resident dealers' licenses 



Non-resident dealers' licenses 



Total 



3 



3,299,650 



1S0.797 



117,239 



46,864 



1,846 



21,814 



6,319 



8 



437 



543 



19 



3,675,536 



16,422 



885 



83 



26 





y 4 c 



%c 



5c 

 5c 

 25c 

 lc 

 lc 

 lc 

 lc 

 lc 

 lc 



$1.25 



5.00 



25.00 



50.00 



+-> 

 o 



o 

 U 



8,249.12 



451.99 



5,861.95 



2,343.20 



461.50 



218.14 



63.19 



.08 



4.37 



5.43 



.19 



$ 17,659.16 



20,527.50 



4,425.00 



2,075.00 



1,300.00 



$ 28,327.50 



|$ 45,986.66 



