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Show w COYOTK SKINS BRING ABOUT TEN DOLLARS The Nevada coyote, deadly enemy of the sheep and cattlemen of the state pays his own funeral expenses through the sale of his hide, according accord-ing to statistics furnished by E. R. Sans, head of the Nevadi division of the United States biological survey, whose chief work is the extermination extermina-tion of predatory animals. During the past year the Nevada department turned back $19,756.70 into the state and county treasurer-ies, treasurer-ies, $14,741.10 to the state and $5-015.71 $5-015.71 to the counties as their share of proceeds from the sale of furs. Added to this revenue frbm the work of the department is a check for $1,642.50 received from Julius Schwartchild:, Nevada representative of Bissinger & Co., western hide and fur dealersi, paying for the cleanup hand. The list of furs that went to the Reno concern reads like a text book on Nevada natural history. The list includes 159 coyotes, one skunk, one small tail mink, one gray fox, five swift fox, one muskrat and soven badger skins. The coyotes brought an average price of $10 each, the highest price paid for average pelts during the year 1922. After paying salaries o? the county hunters in Washoe county there is still a balance in favor of the county from the funds derived' from the fur sales. Since the biological survey work was started in Nevada approximately $50,000 has been turned back to the state and county by this method, Sans says Ely Record. |