Fur-Bearing Animals. 



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fox skins are worth 840 each, and over 10,000 are shot or trapped in 

 the northern regions yearly. The blue fox skins are worth S20 apiece, 

 and'about 7,000 are captured annually, but some of these are secured 

 on the borders of the White Sea and Greenland. The other varieties 

 bring from one to five dollars. Of the ordinary red fox over 100,000 



BLUE, GKKY, AND WHITE FOXES. 



are secured every year among the Hudson's Bay Company's posts of 

 the north. 



The ermine, or the stoat, is a fur of ancient times, when only 

 the nobility were allowed to wear them; but the demand for 

 them to-day is as great as when they were confined to royalty. 



