People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1894 — Slaughtered for Their Pelts. [ARTICLE]

Slaughtered for Their Pelts.

An idea of the enormous number of fur-bearing animals annually slaughtered for their pelts may be gained from the following figures of skins offered for the January sales s London: One million five hundred thousand muskrat, 550,000 Australian opossum, 220,000 raccoon, 200,000 skunk, 175,000 mink, 105,000 opossum, 50,000 wallaby, 80,800 fox, 30,000 marten, 32,000 nutria, 20,000 wombat, 14,000 beaver, 8,600 cat, 6,000 bear, 5,000 kangaroo, 5,000 lynx, 8,600 Thibet lamb, 8,400 wolf, 2,800 dry-hair seal, 1,100 badger and 1,000 Russian sable, a total of nearly 3,000,000 skins. This is exclusive of the regular offerings of sealskins January 15, which, according to advices received by the Furrier, comprise 28,900 skins, all except 3,200 of which are from northwest coast seals.