THE FUR, LEATHER AND HIDE TRADES 



Otter 90,000 to 124,000 



Coon (raccoon) 500,000 to 600,000 



Sable 175,000 to 235,000 



Skunk ' 1,200,000 to 1,500,000 



Squirrel 15,000,000 



Rabbit 70,000,000 to 80,000,000 



Fisher 10,000 



Innis 25 presents an elaborate and very instructive table giving esti- 

 mates of many kinds of furs of various countries in 1863, 1907-1909, 

 1913 and 1923-1924, for purposes of comparison. A very few im- 

 portant standard items are here chosen from the table, to show the gen- 

 eral trend of the market during that long period: 



(OOO's omitted) 



The same author (Innis, p. 83) gives another table showing the 

 total number and value of all the furs for the various countries for 

 1863, 1907-1909 and 1923-1924, in which the grand totals for the world 

 are as follows: 1863, $17,456,650; 1907-1909, $73,400,000; 1923- 

 1924, $212,600,000. In 1911 Russia produced 4,525,000 squirrel skins, 

 sold as raw pelts for $2,000,000, and 21 tons of squirrel skins valued at 

 $5.50 a pound, and annually sold about 200,000 ermine skins for 

 $35o,ooo. 26 



At the February, 1920, fur auction in Saint Louis, $27,000,000 

 worth of furs were sold in twelve days. 27 The New York sales during 

 the same month totalled $10,600,000, and included the following do- 

 mestic furs: 28 27,000 red fox, 175,000 opossum, 73,000 raccoon, 32,000 

 wolf, including coyote, 239,000 skunk, 4350 badger, 6200 gray fox, 

 41,500 mink, 7700 marten, 58,000 "civet cat/' 68,000 ermine and 

 9800 wildcat and lynx. Also the following foreign furs: 234,000 



3 Innis, The fur trade of Canada, table opposite p. 76, 1927. 

 28 Jones, Fur farming in Canada, p. 106, 1913. 



' Dearborn, The fur situation, Journ. Mammalogy, I, 144-145, 1920. 

 28 N. H[ollister], Journ. Mammalogy, i, 160, 1920. 



