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allowing 25 per cent as their annual rate of increase, it also seems 

 fair to assume that 2,000 could be killed yearly without diminishing 

 the stock. 



But even this does not tell the whole story because there is still 

 another important potential source of revenue to the State. Mr. 

 G. W. Bartlett, Park Superintendent of the Algonquin Provincial 

 Park, Ontario, Canada ('21), states that during the last year covered 

 by his report he received orders for over 100 beavers for shipment 

 to the United States. He states (p. 117) that: " I would therefore 

 recommend that the price of live beaver, * * * be put at $150.00 

 a pair. The dealers we have at times supplied in the States charge 

 $100.00 per animal, and we have been supplying them at $30.00 

 each. * * * The price, however, should be at least four times the 

 value of the pelts, as they represent at least that much additional 

 cost. A large quantity of fur has been taken out and sold in Toronto, 

 bringing the nice sum of $14,179.00.'' 



It would therefore be good policy to use surplus Adirondack 

 beavers for stocking other regions, and if 100 were sold each year 

 at $100.00 each that would add $10,000.00 to the $50,000.00 which 

 can probably be derived from pelts, thus making a total of $60,000.00 

 annually. 



Such a revenue would thus in one year pay for all the damaged 

 timber, and probably in a few succeeding years for all damages to 

 property of other kinds. It ought even to produce funds for possibly 

 correcting the alleged damage to trout streams and for continuous 

 supervision of such waters. 



Recent valuable papers on the methods of cultivating beaver in 

 the National Forests have been written by Mr. Smith Riley, formerly 

 U. S. District Forester at Denver. He says ('21a, p. 200) : " The 

 present status of the beaver in the Cochetopa Forest in Colorado is 

 an excellent example of what can be done in the average mountain 

 region suitable for beaver culture. It is estimated that this Forest 

 which' covers some 900,000 acres contains 12,000 animals distributed 

 over about half the available water area suitable for production. As 

 the animals were causing damage to ranch property in one locality 

 near the Forest boundary, a plan was drawn up for cooperative 

 trapping with the State game department. It provided for the exter- 

 mination of the beavers where they were committing actual damage ; 

 for their increase unmolested in streams of the Forest not fully 

 stocked; and finally for the transplanting of the beaver to streams 



