Show ESKIMOS DIG IVORY TUSKS FROM DUMPS By NEA l Service TACOMA Wash Trading Trading ships from the Bering Sea arc are returning from summer with fortunes In ivory tusks which have ha been bought from front the Eskimos of o the northern Islands For centuries before the coming of the white men Eskimos used only the blubber of o the walruses they killed and threw away the tusks These accumulated into vast dump grounds of ivory hory until trading schoon schoon- schooners ers brought men who bought the tusks of freshly killed animals Then the natives remembered the stores of ivory hory left by their ances ances- ancestors ancestors tors and began to sink mines min s on the sites of ot ancient camps and villages i Each tribe so far has salvaged thou thou- thousands thousands thousands sands of dollars dollarS' worth of the precious I material which still is in perfect con con- condition condition and shows no signs sl of o becom becom- becoming becomIng becoming ing exhausted |