CHAPTER XXXI. 



GOOD WAGES TRAPPING. 



I questioned a couple of hunters (brothers) 

 this summer, as to the results of their hunting 

 adventures of the past season, and as I wanted 

 to find out their positive net gains, I got the 

 following figures from them. 



They are just fairly good trappers and their 

 success is about what two industrious men 

 could do who had a knowledge of trapping. 

 Their work was in two spells. Three months 

 in the fall and early winter and a month and 

 a half in spring. 



The provisions they took inland for the three 

 months (ascending one of the North Shore riv- 

 ers) was the following with costs given: 160 

 Ibs. pork, |20.00 ; 20 Ibs. butter, $3.00 ; 360 Ibs. 

 flour, $6.40; 6 Ibs. tea, $2.10; 24 Ibs. sugar, 

 $1.20; 2 Ibs. soda, 10 cts. ; salt and pepper, 20 

 cts.; $33.00. 



Their canoe was pretty well laden when 

 they left the coast, inasmuch as besides the 

 foregoing gross weight of provisions their outfit 

 of tent, axes, pots, kettles, guns, tracking line, 



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