. Big game shooting [microform]. Big game hunting; Hunting; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse. 370 /.'/(; c;aa/e shooting Indian, or other skins) of the great firm of C. M. «S: Co. These two firms collected in 1891 and offered for sale in 1892 no fewer than 29,081 bear hides, to which enormous total the Hudson Bay Company contributed 11,027 hides. Some idea of the proportion of black to other skins at these sales may be obtained by looking at the Hudson Bay Company's lists for 1891, in which we find 11,414 black, 1,875 brown, 253 grey, and 130 white bear skins offered for ' W'luMi
. Big game shooting [microform]. Big game hunting; Hunting; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse. 370 /.'/(; c;aa/e shooting Indian, or other skins) of the great firm of C. M. «S: Co. These two firms collected in 1891 and offered for sale in 1892 no fewer than 29,081 bear hides, to which enormous total the Hudson Bay Company contributed 11,027 hides. Some idea of the proportion of black to other skins at these sales may be obtained by looking at the Hudson Bay Company's lists for 1891, in which we find 11,414 black, 1,875 brown, 253 grey, and 130 white bear skins offered for ' W'luMi Spring in llie wooils â There can be little doubt, then, that there were plenty of black bear in America in 1890 and 1891 ; and, in spite of the immense harvest of hides wliich is annually gathered in, 1 venture to proi)hesy that until Alaskan river bottoms and the dense timber districts of Vancouver Island, Oregon, and Wash- ington Territory are cleared and ready for the plough, there will be plenty of bear left for those who care to look for Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Phillipps-Wolley, Clive, 1854-1918; Baker, Samuel White, 1821-1893. London : Longmans, Green
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