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off from 167,202 skins, of twenty species, valued at $468,960.46, in 

 1927-1928, to 103,508 skins, valued at $280,309.66 in I928-I929. 46 

 The foregoing examples are taken at random, including one of the 

 largest and one of the smallest producers, but every state in the Union 

 produces some furs. 



Even residents of Louisiana were astonished by the statement of 

 Arthur to the effect that the catch of furs in Louisiana per annum ex- 

 ceeds that of any other state in the Union, and is also greater than 

 that of all Canadian provinces and territories and Alaska combined, 47 

 the Louisiana catch for the season of 1924-1925 having been 6,771,265 

 pelts, Alaska only 285,645, and Dominion of Canada combined catch 

 3,820,326. The value of the 1924-1925 catch in some of the states and 

 Canadian provinces is given by him as follows: 



United States Canada 



Louisiana $6,490,340 Ontario $3,406,868 



Michigan 3,000,000 Quebec 2,2/2,095 



Pennsylvania 2,500,000 Alberta 2,030,974 



Minnesota 2,399,200 Northwest Territory 1,780,666 



Tennessee 2,000,000 Manitoba 1,589,078 



Alaska ,657,448 British Columbia 1,403,769 



New York ,500,000 Prince Edward Island 326,669 



Arkansas 500,000 Yukon Territory 309,549 



Wisconsin ,341,000 Nova Scotia 271,753 



Texas ,000,000 New Brunswick 246,091 



Maryland 500,000 



Kansas 250,000 



Oregon 250,000 



Virginia 200,000 



Vermont 150,000 



However, on page 415, while giving the total catch of Canada for 

 1926-1927, from figures furnished by the Dominion Bureau of Sta- 

 tistics, as only 4,289,233 pelts, their value is given as $18,864,126, 

 nearly three times as much as that of Louisiana, the difference being 

 due to the fact that the Louisiana fur-bearers are chiefly muskrat and 

 other lower-priced furs, while a very much larger proportion of Ca- 

 nadian furs are higher-priced kinds. 



In Kansas, for the fur season of 1927-1928, 742 fur dealers' licenses 

 were issued. Five dealers reported a business aggregating $462,766. 

 The following is the catch reported for the season, the values being 

 the amounts paid by the dealers to the trappers: 48 



^California Fish and Game, xn, 272, 1927; xyi, 164, 1930. 



47 Arthur, The fur animals of Louisiana, Louisiana Dept. of Conservation Bull. 

 1 8, pp. 14, 47, 411, 415, 1928. 



48 Dose, Kansas' enormous fur trade, Kansas Fish and Game, No. 2, pp. 67-69, 

 1928. Third Biennial Report of Kansas State Forestry, Fish and Game Commission, 

 for period ending June 30, 1930, p. 32. 



