Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1890 — In the Far North. [ARTICLE]

In the Far North.

Few people have any idea of the resources of the great Hudson Bay. According to the Seattle (Washington). Press its shores are the haunts of the mush ox, the moose, the reindeer, the deer, the white bear and his blaok brother, the otter, the beaver, the mink, the black fox (also the silver gray and white varieties) and other valuable fur-beariug animals. Its waters are teeming with the most valuable varieties of water mammals and fish. ‘ ‘ln some parts of the bay and in the straits the shores of the islands are swarming with walrus. It has been reported by Professor 801 l that one island on the east coast was found to be thickly strewn with the ivory tusks of the walrus, The tusks are valuable, though thei chief value of the walrus lies in the hide, whioh weighs on an average 300 pounds, and* is worth from ten to twenty cents per pound.”