Show FURS ARE SOLD FOR MILLIONS St. St Louis Lotus Has Been Market l for Such Goods Since Pioneer Days St St. Louis March 23 For 29 For For more more than thana n. n century st St. Louis Loula fl has featured as the leading IS 1 fur trade rido market of or the United States St Even cn when St. St Louis Louisj was just n. n frontier fort w i md and ilU nothing j Jt more ag ns indicated on the maps of 1800 It was if an nn important fur trade station The Tho beavers the buffaloes tho the bears and even Oven the tho bobcats have havo grown fewer and fewer tower In the tho region that sent Bent furs fur to St St. St Louis for trade and barter a hundred years ears ago but 8 still L fur r dealers from all over the th country come to the ho fur auctions held herd In tho Mississippi valley metropolis each ach springtime me St St. Louis accumulates the thc furs In Quantities that K score coro into million dol dol- lar values but where do they come como from There Thero was vas a fur auction n hold recent recently during luring which furs to the value of were knocked down to tho the bidders Ono One of the tho trans tram tel's fors In the tho sal sale salo consisted of the skins of OA n A and these house house- cat furs went like at from 10 l to 90 cents each Tho like the tho rabbit Is a fur bearing animal of ot Immense potentialities and cat fur tur like lIko rabbit fur tur can cnn bo ho artistically handled and possibly bo be made to look Jook like Uko ermine The Tho furs that art are annually auctioned at St. St Louis seem however howe to be gathered over a wide range a range a range o that extends to Asia Asla Africa and Australia It Is Js mentioned that civets an AfrIcan animal larn and that ii o ft ermines mostly Russian were sold |