VALUE OF MAMMALS TO MAN 



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value of game, for the State game commissioners testified 



several years ago that the game — deer, moose, and others 



— was worth five million 



dollars to the State. In 



other words, that amount 



of money was expended 



by the sportsmen every 



year, going to hotels, 



railroad guides, gun and 



powder dealers, and 



others. 



r, . . ,, , Fig. 24. —The Moose. 



Statistics tell us the 



enormous sum, far up in the millions, represented by cattle 



alone in America. Chicago is the center of this vast trade, 



and great cattle ranges are found all over the West where 



cattle are raised for the market and sent to Chicago, where 



Fig. 25. — Roping Cattle. 



the business of preparing them has been made a science. 

 Animals are reduced to their component parts in a remark- 



