Show rattlesnake hunters develop new trade san angelo texas dame fashion has interfered with a pastime of workers in the oil fields of west texas men alen who work about the derricks once delighted in ID tossing sticks ot of dynamite or small CUDS cans of nitro glycerin into dens of rattlesnakes but fashion decreed snakeskin snakes klo shoes and gave the reptiles a commercial value so tile the workmen who have been none too prosperous because of the slump in the oil industry now drag snakes from the dons dens with hooked poles and collect the skins which are dried in the sun and shipped to shoe manufacturing centers where they bring prices which nicely augment the wages of the laborers several hundred rattlesnakes have bar i been found to la a single den |