Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1904 — Home of the Chinchilla. [ARTICLE]

Home of the Chinchilla.

The chinchilla, the little animal the size of a squirrel, is met with only In the Andes of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile and is never found under a height of 9,000 or 10*000 feet. The Indians are eager trappers and hunters of It for its line fur. The skins are well seasoned with salt and made up into small packages for dispatch to the towns, whence they are shipped abroad. If people talked only when they had something to say the silence would be too dense to stir with a stick.—Gai-