Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-12-22 | Page 12 | The Chinchilla

the chinchilla is U beautiful soft gray tm it Is not alio most durable of furs and because of the difficulty of getting the perfect skin it cannot be sald to be among the least expensive A duft nud stole of the real chinchilla cost eisie or so the tiny chinchilla not more than twelve inches long with a plump little body on short bait ings thrives only in the tropics the litho beasts have to be killed ohp precaution not to injure clr fur ahat grows on a skin nearly as tender and soft as a web of silk A perfect skin not larger than a small pocket handkerchief is a revelation in fur growth the texture of every hofer Is finer than floss silk fhe length of it nearly an inch and tho coloring ca mt that of tuo soft marabou bulletin