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Show Alaska Trappers Return on Palatial Steamers Tacoma, Wash. Trappers are homeward home-ward bound from Alaska in palatial steamers. Unlike the popular fiction characters who come down out of the Northland silence in a canoe piled high with smelly bales, these intrepid adventurers ad-venturers are the gentry of the trade. Early last fall several score of trappers trap-pers left here for coveted places along , the Interior rivers and lakes and where during the winter they followed their trap lines in true "wilderness fash-Ion. fash-Ion. ' The traps have been sprung and cached away for another season, and with fairly large bales the fur-getters are now coming home for well-earned vacations. In average years trappers bring down bales of fur worth from $3,000 to $4,000. |