Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-11-30 | Page 4 | Great Growth of Fur Industry

GREAT GROWTH OF FUR INDUSTRY The growth of or the fur Industry In Inthe Inthe Inthe the United States has bas been one of the phenomenal advances in a trade that caters largely to the whims of or women Figures on this growth are astounding In In 1014 1914 production of or fur goods in this country amounted to lo about now it is well over a quarter of a billion dollars Hero is an Industry where organ organ- organization organIzation ot or the individual producer is Ss practically impossible with in in- independent independent Independent dependent individuals engaged in producing in the Mississippi basin in Baffin Daffin land in tn the tho remote Khy Khy- Khyber ber pass In India or In the Gobi desert des rt Yet the industry depends upon the individual efforts of these men Until the world orld war the fur in In- industry dust dust- was as centered in Europe mainly at Leipzig London and Paris Furs urs from all parts of the world including the tho United States and Canada were sent to these those cities for tor manufacture and tion With the world war scar ar all this was changed The United States not Dot only markets its own furs here and abroad now DOW it annually Im Ito- Imports Imports ports more than worth of foreign raw furs and sends them back to Europe and Asia as ns finished products prod St. St Louis is the shipping point for American furs Some ot or the business is Ss done by b mail mall the deal deal- dealer er circularizing a II large list of trap trap- trappers trappers trappers pers specifying Ing the tho kind of or furs tu s i he wants The fur merchant eith eith- either elther er Cr dresses and dyes dos the tho furs fura or ships them in their raw state to the tho manufacturer where they are cut cutup cutup cutup up into garments The Tho larger manufacturer then sells his supply direct to retail stores while the smaller manufacturer disposes of his usually through a Jobber The industry is growing swiftly into an important clement element In Amer Amer- American American ican lean economic life J