68 ECONOMIC MAMMALOGY 



The less-pronounced increase in exports, imports and manufactures 

 from 1919 to 1920, and the marked drop in auction sales in 1921 are 

 due partly or wholly to declining prices, rather than to decrease in 

 the quantity of material handled. To the totals must be added a con- 

 siderable amount of small business scattered over the country, not re- 

 ported. We are told that the amount spent annually for fur garments 

 in America is about $100,000,000 with from $200,000,000 to 

 $300,000,000 invested in the industry. 37 



The following information is obtained from the Statistical Ab- 

 stract of the United States for 1925 : 38 



Total exports of furs and fur manufactures from the United States in 



1925 $ 26,482,000 



Fox 1,537,000 



Muskrat 1,969,000 



Raccoon 393,ooo 



Skunk and civet cat 7,825,000 



Opossum 4,653,000 



Other furs 9,042,000 



Miscellaneous fur manufactures 1,063,000 



Total imports of furs and fur manufactures to the United States for 



1925 $115,349.000 



Furs, undressed 



Beaver 3,676,000 



Fox, except silver and black 15,839,000 



Hare, cony and rabbit 23,731,000 



Marten 1,940,000 



Mink 2,426,000 



Mole 396,000 



Muskrat 1,920,000 



Squirrel 13,725,000 



Miscellaneous 37,940,000 



Furs, dressed and manufactured 13,756,000 



Total furs dressed and manufactured in the United States in 1925 : 



Cost of Value added by Value of finished 



material manufacture product 



Furs dressed $ 20,558,000 $ 47,326,000 $ 67,884,000 



Fur manufactures 340,143,000 214,037,000 554,180,000 



Total $360,701,000 $261,363,000 $622,064,000 



According to Innis, from 1914 to 1919 the number of fur-dressing 

 plants in the United States increased from 96 to 141, the total capi- 

 talization from $2,489,868 to $8,867,403, the wages from $906,030 

 to $6,338,835, and the value of the product from $2,875,036 to 



87 Dearborn, The maintenance of the fur supply, U. S. Biol. Surv. Circular No. 

 T 35. PP- 3-12, 1920. Johnson, Roosevelt Wild Life Bull, in, 208-209, 1925. 



88 Statistical abstract of the United States 7925, U. S. Bureau of Foreign and 

 Domestic Commerce, 1926. 



