Bruce,  When we got this free deer I asked about the hide as I thought we
might be able to sell/give it to someone to tan.  One of the hunters here
said you can't even give them away so we took it to the dump.  There used
to be a place where you could take your deer hide and they would give you a
pair of deerskin gloves for it.  Ruth





At 1:55 PM -0500 1/2/04, Bruce Marcham wrote:
>Creighton:
>
>I checked with Debbie's dad, Paul Loomis (lives in Union Valley between
>Cuyler and Cincinnatus, descendant of the infamous Loomis Gang), on the
>current prices of fur:
>
>Big beaver  $30-35  (he got another one today)
>Muskrat  $3  (considering all the work involved this hardly seems worth it)
>Raccoon  $14-15
>Red fox  $30-35  (I see this dead on the road of late)
>Gray fox  $20
>(I forgot to ask about deer hides)
>
>Paul remembered '79 and '80 as the peak years for fur.
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