FUR-FARMING IN CANADA 109 
“There were 480 silver fox skins sold at the March, 1910, 
Oreinvs auctions, which brought £540 as the highest and £9 as the 
lowest price. In June 64 of these skins were offered, the 
prices ranging from £230 down to £5, and at the October sales 167 
skins brought prices from £150 to £36. 
“At the March Lampson sales, there were also offered 3,315 white 
hare skins, prices for which ranged from 54d. to 4d.; 1,311 Persian 
lambskins, prices 23s. to 3s.; 307 sea-otter skins, prices £350 to 
£4; 763 bales of North American rabbit skins, prices 8d. to 3d. per 
pound; 689 fur sealskins (dry), prices 13s. to 2s. 6d.; 2,124 hair seal- 
skins (dry), prices 6s. 9d. to 1s.; 2,410 wombat skins, prices 2s. 11d. 
to 7d.; and 928 wolverene skins, prices 46s. to 4s. At the June auctions 
200 brown bearskins brought prices vai ying from 90s. to 9s., and 4,100 
marmot skins from 3s. 1d. to 1s. 9d. 
“At the December seal auctions, 13,584 Alaska skins were offered 
in 1910, against 14,350 in 1909, and brought from 240s. to 80s., which 
was somewhat lower than in the earlier year. From the northwest 
coast came 12,589 skins, against 13,972 in 1909, the prices averaging a 
trifle higher in 1910 than in the preceding year and ranging from 168s. 
to 35s. Prices were 10 per cent. lower for South Sea skins, the number 
sold being 1,060 in 1910, compared with 2,086 in 1909, and the returns 
being 182s. for the finest quality and 78s. for lower grades. Cape Horn 
skins numbered only 213 in 1910, compared with 912 in 1909, but the 
prices, 58s. to 38s., were 25 per cent. higher. 
“Tt will be realized that in the valuation of furs so much depends 
on size, condition, colour, age, district, etc., that a mere list of prices 
is no guide to the fluctuations of the auction-room value of the skins.” 
PRICES OF SILVER Fox SKINS 
Emil Brass, a German commercial agent, who, for thirty- 
Saaeiapel five years, has been engaged in collecting statistics of the 
oduction ‘ 
fur trade, states that the average number of fox skins pro- 
duced annually in the period from 1907 to 1909 was 2,042,300. The 
following figures are based on his estimates: 
Common Rep Fox Redisktnsee sae isi aavccet. 1,515,000 
(Vulpes vulpes) @rosaiskan sen ienctssesieicacssis she ole che» 18,000 
SHIVGRIS KIS! us ciate sla ie sagas Setene 4,300 
Ponar Fox Wihiterskineyse jer. letcie'sioveilel ser 105,000 
(Vulpes lagopus) BIWe pric cialens cre s,s) wre the espe 11,000 
Kat-Fox 
(Valet satas } Hana Meee Oy EAN es ety Satara 64,000 
Grey Fox 50,000 
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