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Show Utah Dealers Gross Over $150,000 from Hides SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Hide buyers in Utah estimate that they grossed $150,000 last year from deer hides brought in by hunters. Locker plants take in most of the hides. From there they go to hide dealers. One of the area's biggest wool and hide dealers, B. C. Elliott, estimated that about 50,000 deer were killed in the 1950 season by 80,-000 80,-000 hunters. The locker compsnies usually take the hides as part of their charge for storing vension. They sell the skins to the large buyers for about $1.75 each. Dealers dry and salt the hides. Then they are shipped to tanners who convert the skins to doeskin and buckskin that go into such articles ar-ticles of clothing as jackets and gloves. |