Show HISTORY MADE BY THE BEAVER animal played big part in american life in the rush of packing and getting tickets for your outing next nest summer you will not give a to the history making beaver and the part he had in developing the country you sire fire starting out to see but lie he had a big part in making history and in making land the beaver is the little chap that kept beckoning to the explorers who made a profit cai on his pelt lie ile led them to great lakes and great rivers over mountains and into wonder valleys new york states shield accords a prominent place to the little animal which was the corner stone of trade in colonial days says the american a nature X association of washington ton which will on request give you information on the beaver his onetime importance Is enshrined in the heroic traditions of the hudsons Hud sons bay company and of the north west company of canada and in the accounts of alexander mackenziee Macken epic journeys to the arctic and the pacific all these british undertakings had the beaver for their foundation but the united states can boast an equal indebtedness to this little rodent during millenniums prior to our fore forefathers rathers landan landing on these shores the beaver had been damming the streams and so s 0 retaining in the ti e impounding riding waters the silt and humus which would otherwise have been carried to the sea fertility of most of our valleys our farms and even our flower gardens was initiated by the teeth of a small furry and tireless gnawer bawer who made arable the valleys valleys which the lee ice a age ge had created thereby becoming our pioneer agronomist fisl his successful efforts at soil reclamation antedated the earliest experiments of the department of agriculture and the garden club of america by probably ably at least a million years this was the condition when in 1009 samuel de champlain entered the northern part pan of present new ne w york state and henry hudson salle sailed d his half moon aloon into new kew Y york ork bay ascended the river that now bears his name and on reaching where today is the city of albany ascertained that he had missed the way to china these two mens arrivals had much to do with furs champlain was confessedly fes sedly seeking to enlarge the area of the peltry business of new france an attempt he be promptly thwarted by a few ill advised shots which aimed at iroquois indians transmuted the algonquian confederacy into an active military alliance with the british and so changed the course of civilization in eastern north america henry hudson though primarily in quest of a route to china made his employer in holland a report which dealing with the com commercial commeree merel a possibilities of new Amster da dams ms furs was so enthusiastically phrased that for the next 17 years peltries pel tries formed practically the sole enterprise of the dutch colonists who settled in our country the nucleus of all this peltry trade was the beaver |