Oct. 8, 1910.] 
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Los Angeles (Cal.) Revolver Club. 
Los Angeles, Cal.. Sept. 27.—Scores made in the 
outdoor championship matches of the United States Re¬ 
volver Association on the outdoor range of the Los 
Angeles, Cal.. Revolver Club, subject to the official scor¬ 
ing of Secretary-Treasurer Axtell, the week of Sept. 18-25, 
are as follows: 
Match A. 
A B Douglas. 86 85 91 87 89—438 
Hr L M Packard. 78 75 72 79 85—389 
Match B. 
Dr L M Packard. 
R T Fraser. 
1 C D ug as. 
W E Smith. 
] E Holcomb. 
86 87 S4 90 86—433 
89 88 86 83 86—432 
85 S7 82 88 85—427 
84 81 85 88 87—425 
70 SI 81 88 91—ill 
I. C. Douglas. 
FUR TRADE OF RUSSIA. 
In the last edition of the Trappers’ Guide, re¬ 
cently issued by the Forest and Stream Publish¬ 
ing Company, considerable reference was made 
to the fur trade in Russia up to the year 1909. 
We now have more detailed and later facts and 
figures from a report from Consul-General John 
H. Snodgrass, stationed at Moscow. 
Customs returns do not show the extensive fur 
trade carried on between Russia and the United 
States. As the business is nearly all transacted 
through German and English commission houses, 
the sales and purchases are accordingly credited 
to Germany and England. 
For the past two centuries a trade in furs has 
been carried on between Russia and the United 
States, there having'been an interchange of pur¬ 
chases with the old Hudson Bay Company, and 
with our marvelous growth in population and 
wealth the sales (indirect) have increased to 
very large proportions. London is the largest 
and most important fur-distributing point in the 
world, followed in their importance by Leipzig, 
a large market for European, American and 
Asiatic furs; Nizhni Novgorod, renowned for 
its yearly fair annually visited by thousands of 
buyers and sellers from Europe and the United 
States: Irbit, also noted for its annual fur fair; 
Kasan, whose trade is almost exclusively with 
the dealers from Siberia; Kiachta near the Si- 
berian-Chinese boundary; and Astrakhan at the 
mouth of the Volga noted as the distributing 
point for Persian lamb skins gathered from 
Persia, Syria and Bokhara and worn throughout 
the civilized world. Tiflis, Kharkov, Baku and 
Archangel are also important outlets for furs 
produced in their respective provinces. 
Ermine is the highest priced of all furs and 
although worn in general, is regarded as a “royal 
fur.’’ It is found only in the north of Russia 
and Scandinavia, the most excellent Quality com¬ 
ing from Ischim and Barabinsk, Siberia. The 
ermine becomes pure white in winter in those 
snow-covered regions, where, if it .retained its 
summer hue. the fact would render it an easy 
prey to its enemies. The tip of the tail alone 
remains black. Trapping ermine is carried on 
in winter of necessity; in some localities they 
are shot with arrows in order to prevent the 
possibility of damaging the beautiful and costly 
coat. The skins rarely measure over a foot in 
length, and are disposed of by the trappers in 
lots of forty, known as “timbers.” 
Ermine and sable are also popular in Paris, 
and in late years Americans have been purchas¬ 
ing ermine, though sable is still popular and will 
be difficult to displace in the United States. 
The Russian sable, derived from the marten, 
while not so valuable as the ermine, is costly 
enough to prevent its becoming common, some 
skins being valued as high as $5,000 each. They 
range in size from 15 to 20 inches in length and 
S to 8 inches in breadth. In a genuine sable the 
outer covering of hair is especially delicate in 
quality and beautiful in color, it being of a rich 
blue tint, varying from \V 2 to 2L2 inches in 
length, while the pelt is very soft, but at the 
same time durable. The value and grades vary 
according to the district in which thev are found, 
the highest quality being found in Yakutsk; the 
next best in the Lena River district, while the 
more inferior are bought in the Lower Amur 
region. The Kamtchatka sable, more brown in 
color than others, is regarded highly by the 
Russians. Still other sables, snared in Lapland, 
are sold at the Russian fairs. 
It is estimated that 25,000 sables are caught 
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