Show I II Increased Price of Elk Teeth During the last five years the value of elk teeth has more than trebled said n western traveler at tho Frederic Fred-eric according to tho St Paul Dispatch Dis-patch In 1901 you could got any number num-ber of flue specimens In Idaho Montana Mon-tana Washington and bordering states for 2GO apiece Now you will pay from 760 to 10 and they aro hard to get for even that The Apache Sioux Comancho and Chippewa Indians Indi-ans used to have dozens of them In their possession and traded them for trinkets But the redskin got wise to their value and you can buy them from a regular dealer cheaper now than from tho Indian Tho passing of tho elk and the great demand made by tho members of the Elk lodge for teeth for emblems have boosted the price Tho traveler recited an incident of an Oklahoman who bought a robo covered cov-ered with elk teeth from a Wichita Indian for 100 lIe cut off the teeth and cleaned up 2200 on the deal |