Show Dig Alaskan Dear Alaska Is particularly rich In bears and most of them belong to a group known as the Alaskan brown bears of which the Kodiak bear Is one So wide is his reputation that sportsmen trom all over tho world spend thousands thou-sands of dollars In order to add a skin to their collection of trophies The weight of a full grown Kodiak bear Is not known although specimens have been killed that were estimated to weigh between fifteen and eight eon hundred pounds and some hunters hunt-ers claim that they will go as high as twentytwo hundred While at Ko dial several summers ago I measured the skin of one of these huge animals which stretched tho tape nine and a half feet from the nose to tho tall and ten and a half feet across tho outstretched front paws Mr A C Goss who handles all of the brown hands ot tho Alaskan CommercIal Company at Kodiak told me that ho had seen skins that were three feet longcrJ Alden Loring In Recroa tlon |