ALASKA BEAVER HUNT.
STAMPEDE FOR STRONGHOLD.
A strange stampede for Alaska, used to gold rushes, left the town of Anchorage recently for Clark's Lake, 100 miles inland, where Uncle Sam has declared an open season 011 beaver. With 1000 malamutes yelping and tugging at their sledges and with mukluks and snowshoes, 26"» men and women left in a body for the scene of slaughter. The rush started from Iliamna, on Cook Inlet, where the trappers had been camped for the opening of the season.
Each person is allowed to trap twenty beavers during thirty days from May 15. after which the district will be indefinitely closed. Beavers are increasing in most regions in Alaska and when they reach unusual proportions the. Government opens a season on them. Beaver pelts are quoted at 30 dollars to 40 dollars each in the open market.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 255, 27 October 1928, Page 19
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142ALASKA BEAVER HUNT. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 255, 27 October 1928, Page 19
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