Times Independent | 1923-01-25 | Page 12 | Trapping Said to be Profitable Game Now

TRAPPING SAID TO BE GAME NOW furs are now soaring in price and the trapping of predatory animals has developed into a profitable busi ness for those who are arv meeting with luck on their trap lines average coyote hides are bringing from 10 to 20 and cat hydes are priced about the same this week a shipment of furs valued at passed through moab en route to a fur house it represents several months work by a trapper in san juan county several local men have been tra trapping during daring the past several months and are meeting with fair success among them are heber christensen and J I 1 L maxwell who have a line of traps at the head of the valley and who have been making some valler is fair r I 1 catches it ts Is expected that tho the pay befit of bounties will soon be re by the statland state and trapping will then net better returns As the state boun bounty bounthon on a coyote bide hide amounts to 5