Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1912 — Alligator Hunting Free for All. [ARTICLE]

Alligator Hunting Free for All.

Since the publication in this paper a few weeks ago of a paragraph about the profits to be made in alligator farming, many letters have been received asking for further Information. It .will interest these correspondents to know that alligator hunting is now free for all on the Magdaleija~river in Colombia and that there is one firm In Newark, N. J., which has a virtual monopoly of the alligator skin trade of the world, buying as it does from 80 to 90 per cent, of the production. In the Magdalena river are three species of alligators, only one of which, the caiman porro, is of any value.