2i8 THE UPPER YUKON 



for them. Alas for the purchaser; the fash- 

 ions changed, the prices dropped, and good- 

 ness knows what he had to sell them for. Per- 

 haps the price was once more but fifteen cents 

 each. 



The fur trade is always subject to violent 

 fluctuations in price, governed by the sales 

 from continent to continent. As fashion al- 

 ways fixes upon one fur to the exclusion of 

 others, upon that caprice alone does the life 

 or death of millions of fur-bearing animals 

 depend. 



