Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-04-08 | Page 7 | Rattlesnake Industry.

RATTLESNAKE INDUSTRY I In Swain county North Carolina an enterprising woodsman n ml succeeded ded In building up UI a It profitable business In shipping shipping ship ship- I ping rattlesnakes rattlesnake to the east ast That sic Ac tion lion of North Carolina it appears produces produces produces pro pro- duces a n superior br breed l of ot rattlesnake kl I c-I I and New York scientists mid and naturalists I have ha been paying willingly 3 apiece for tor good good specimens of rattler Manuel Weeks tho the Individual Indi ludi- victual vidual who has been ben supplying tho the scientific world with live 11 and husky snakes I owns owna a lar large e body boly of or land In the North Carolina mountains Tho The most of oC the the- theland land la Is Is too poor and too r 1 rugged d to raise a n fuss on but It R abounds abounds' In rattle rattle- snakes A t New York professor on a aa va vacation va- va vacation cation looking ln around for specimens of or flora and fauna and other things of or In Interest interest In- In terest to nature lovers ers saw KaW some of at the snakes and wanted a few for his collet lion tion Weeks agreed d to catch them and ship them and dirt did so O. O Subsequently the tho fame of the North Carolina nak K spread over o New York York- and oth other r naturalists naturalists wanted specimens Weeks was furnishing them rl right ht along boxing them up liP and sending them by express from Br Bryson CIl City The The- business was going oln merrily and anel remuneratively until one day a It careless me messenger en r dropped a box of snakes and ant I smashed d it on tho floor of the express car The Tho express messengers left tho the car carIn carin In haste hasto and anel tho the whole train crew crow was summoned summoner for fol a general snake killing It WR wae was an exciting time o and nd It delayed lie lic and threw a number o of pas passengers n ers In Into Into into In- In to a condition approaching nervous prostration pros pros- Weeks not on only I failed tailed to realize on that particular consignment but the express company sent a Q hurry hung up order to the tho n agent ent at Bryson City to 10 a accept no nomore moro more snakes s for shipment The Tho nex next time that Weeks appeared with a box o of snakes R the thc agent ent gave e a him the thc Ic Icy stare and s suggested ested that rattlers were very much persona non grata and there didn't seem to bet b any Indication of oC the company compani warming up to Weeks Weeks' peculiar industry Weeks alecks has sued cued the company compan for dama damages es probably on tho the ground that It ItIs ItIs itIs Is acting In restraint of trade In North orth Carolina snakes aro arc a a. drug on tho the market mar mar- ket It looks bad for tor tho snake farm unless ways was and means for shipment of ot its products may be found round Nevertheless the express company and Its employees the tho trainmen and the traveling tra public must bo ho conceded to have some somo rights rl li lithe In Inthe Inthe the matter Courier Journal