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Show FUR TRADE NOW HELD BY MIERiCANS Washington, Nov. 2S. Dame Fash-icn, Fash-icn, who decreed that furs shall be cousplcuous !ii the season' dress, did to at a premium, lor not only have prices soared fifty per cent higher, but industrious trappers have decimated deci-mated the fur-bearing animals to such r ii extent thai the luture supply will be considerably reduced and furs may le very scarce next' year, according to consular reports. United States Consul General John H. Suodgiass, at Moscow, Russia, vrites that a Russian newspaper, lamenting the fact that the Siberian fur trade has passed Into the control of Americans, attributes the rising prices to the operations of the latter. lat-ter. Moscow traders, however, remarks re-marks Mr. Snodgrass, are unwilling to blame American buyeis for doing business directly with tin; trappcr-3 cn the Pacitie const of Kamchatka, instead of making (heir purchases in tho Siberian fur fairs, where the middle mid-dle man in the past h;n advanced pi ices by an amount equal to his own p:oiit The Moscow fur traders declare de-clare that the growing rc nulreincuts cf fur wearers, which cannot be met by the rapldl diminishing supply, constilute the real reasons fur high prices this year. Siberian exiles lie mainly by their ability to trap in those regions without molestation from the 'authorities, and fur-bearing animals are not multiplying as fast as they are being trapped. Reports from Canada show that furs there have brought higher prices thau ever before. An increased demand has been noticeable for lynx, mink a.nl marten. |