| Show franl HUNTING IN amonica 1 in tin the year 1857 a pearl of anil anster weighing ninety three gr line was round found at notch drook brook near paterson Pa tenon new now cerey the empress eugenie boucht it ful lui twenty ave HT hundred dol 1 lar tars a quarter ot of ita its present value it wa was the discovery of thi this pearl that called attention to the tb freshwater fresh freeh water pearl bearing mollusks moll uiki of north aner amer lea anil and led to other I 1 ands which are I 1 described at length in a bulletin pared for the fish commission Comm leilon by mr george F kuns mr kun kunz reminds ue us that the very oldest were pearl hunter hunters the mound builder builders possessed po ered pearls literally bushels of them at a mound in the little miami valley professor and doctor vets unearthed anear theu more than aliby aty thousand all ot of coune course decayed decoyed or altered so ai an to be of no commercial value the indian indiana beding the mound builder builders like wise sought and treasured them the spanish explorer explorers perret aa am partial to pearl pearls ai an they were to all other form forms of portable property the historian of the expedition aya says that by rifling kiflin the sepulchers in one indian town in florida de be solo soto and bill hi band obtained more than three hundred aul fifty po ponds probably many of phrae pearl pearls fa a a way artificial manufactured from th the hell shell hut but biere there la in no doubt that pearl pearls were much more numerous nume roua in the explorers time than they were when rediscovered so 10 to peak speak in 1857 j jat tot as a they we v nor more numerous nume rou in 1857 than thin they are now the pearl hunting of the last forty years haa has been carried on at intervals Inter rala all 11 the tho za ay ire frea 1 oba bovi seetta to WU cousin aul then south as far as florida the levee ema seems to break out about once in ten year years in the 1897 epidemic arkansas wa was first and chiefly affected in certain parta parts of that tate state pearl pearls had been found frequently and used as a children childrens plaything playthings and aa an luck stoner with 10 idea of their value A young st loul louts in an bendin pen din ag his hi vacation on a fishing trip picked up a few on the hore shore of murphy lak the negro cu gui de laughed at fit him and ent sent them to city jeweler jewelers the check that came hsk hek hs k lump fred a company to lenee lease the whole lake and ork it with tood good results discoveries DIeco in othe place places fostered ered the excitement I 1 A pink pearl of thirty one groins 1 found on black river 1 arkansas Ar kania netted the finder thirty five doll dollar and the purchaser pur chaer five hundred from the little littie red river 1 in a short time a IS man took afteel hundred dollar dollars worth of pearl pearls A kama kansas man found eleven labender colored pearl pearls which he be old sold for six alx lx hundred dollar dollars at one I 1 drive with his hi drag 1 hotel shovel across aero a little tream stream a farmer collected more than two hundred peart pearls oma soma omas somas as larie large aa a pea peas unfortunate y theae these latherer rat herer with few tow exception exceptions did their work waite fully european pearl hunters huntera have instrument instruments with which they open the hell bell without injuring the animal and if it they find no pearl they return the thell shell to the water our pearl seekers throw away the shell ard the edible meat and foolishly open the very smallest mal leit mussels mu eael which seldon contain urla then too certain tain factories fact orlee in the west are beginning beRt nnIng to uee use great quan title titles of hella shells in the manufacture of pearl button buttons supplies Bupp ll for these ta toiled are accumulated by meana means ol 01 steam dredges edgee dr which aap weep the deeper waters where the ordinary hunter bunter could not venture and so 0 o between the button maker and the e careless car elees pearl hunter the froth freall water mussels of the united states eem seem destined to extinction the crop la Is worth preserving 1 there li Is always a chance of 0 a and like that bine blue pearl from caney fork tennes i oft which fetched thirty three hundred dollars in london a few years ago so but the haphazard methods that now are equally destructive and dangerous dame rou pearl collecting is a an industry in which stupidity com command mandi no premium mr kunz tella tells ua us that mat what would doubtless doubt leea hare bare beer ala cineel alne pearl of colern time timet was ruined by the ignorant under finder who boiled it to open the acell |
