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at $2.50, $25 ; 1 beaver, $7 ; 2 bears at $7, $14 ; 

 3 bears at $20, $60 ; 4 fishers at$7, $28 ; 1 otter, 

 $15 ; 120 musquash at 15c, $18 ; amount, $547.00. 



SUMMARY OF TRAPPING. 



By total hunt, $547.00 ; to provisions, $49.50 ; 

 sundries, 70 cts; 2 men's net earnings for 135 

 days at $1.84 equals $496.80. 



The amount per diem clear to each of the 

 brothers may not appear to the reader as very 

 remunerative, yet compared to working in the 

 shanties they did much better. The wages for 

 good axe men last winter were from eighteen 

 to twenty dollars per month. 



Compared with the same length of time 

 working in the lumber camps the figures would 

 stand thus: 4^ months lumbering at average 

 wages of $22 equals $99; 4| months trapping, 

 $248.40. In favor of trapping, say in round fig- 

 ures $150.00. 



I submit the foregoing to the readers of H- 

 T-T, hoping it may prove interesting. 

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It is no doubt ancient history, still it may 

 be interesting to the readers to know the large 

 hunts made by some of our Indians in the latter 

 '60's. Referring to a note book kept in those 

 days I find the hunt of one particular Indian 



