20 FUR FACTS 



the world, and the number of shipments of furs for the season 

 of 1919-20 is estimated at 1,068,000 shipments, as compared with 

 12,386 in 1877, and totaled the gigantic sum of $60,000,000.00. 

 This includes fur shipped to St. Louis from all over the world. 

 The value of fresh pelts trapped during the winter season of 

 1919-20 in surrounding territory and shipped to St. Louis is 

 so much greater than the business of the early fur traders that 

 there can hardly be any comparison. In 1810 the value of pelts 

 marketed in St. Louis was estimated at thirty thousand dollars 

 ($30,000.00) a year. In the Fall of 1919 and early Wiiiter of 1920, a 

 little over one hundred years later, the value of the shipments of 

 furs received in St. Louis from North American trapping grounds 

 was estimated at thirty five milUon dollars ($35,000,000.00). 



