Cone offered $300. "Me no sell," said the Indian. "Me want 

 $1,000." 



An Eastern fur buyer, who happened to be in the store, 

 pulled out a printed price list and said: "Why, look here. 

 The fox prices only go up to $300." He then read off quite a 

 list of the printed amounts. 



To the utter amazement of both white men, the Indian, who 

 had seemed to have scarcely enough intelligence to make 

 himself understood in English, took the list from the buyer's 

 hand and read the prices that were listed for foxes up to $700. 

 He had far more education than they had thought. 



"How much do you want for your fur?" he was again asked. 



"Me no sell," he said, putting it back in the bag. With that, 

 the copper-skinned family departed. 



Enough Foxes in One Catch to Clear a Title to a Claim 

 Gray Foxes Common. 



Mr. Cone also tells a story of a Duhith young man by the 

 name of McLaughlin, who in one catch of foxes made more 

 than enough to clear his title to his claim on the north shore 

 of the lake. This happened about four years ago. The young 

 man once brought a small fox cub pelt and asked Mr. Cone 

 what it was worth. He was told that it was- worth $2.50. It 

 was of little practical value, but had some value because it 

 was a silver gray fox. The young man said there were many 

 such foxes prowling around his cabin. Mr. Cone then told 

 him how to make a good catch of them when the trapping 

 season came. He was to feed them and get them into the 

 habit of coming to a certain tree and after the summer feed- 

 ing had well established this habit, he could set his traps in 

 the dead of winter and make a complete haul. 



McLaughlin followed this advice and some months later re- 

 turned with six beautiful silver gray fox hides. He had caught 

 the father, mother and four half-grown cubs altogether. Mr. 

 Cone took the pelts to Chicago, where he sold them for $1,700, 

 of which $1,300 was turned over to McLaughlin, giving him a 

 chance to clear his title to the claim, as well as to pay for all 

 the time he had to spend proving up his claim. The same fox 

 pelts now would bring about $2,700. Duluth Herald. 



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