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Last March, when 94 beavers imported into beaverless Pennsylvania had become a timber-destroying, field-flooding horde of 15,000, the State opened its first beaver trapping season in 31 years (TIME, March 12). By last week game officials had finished counting up results. Total catch was 6,408. At an average of $10 per pelt, they brought trappers some $60,000. No trapper was allowed to catch more than six and most obeyed the law. Biggest beaver caught weighed 71 lb. Catches were made in 50 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. Record haul (1,092) was in Potter...
...that large order of mammals, the rodents, you could have selected an animal that would have fitted in with a precise description of Feuchtwanger's singularly rodent-like physiognomy - and yet would have carried with it not quite so nasty a connotation. Perhaps a fat-cheeked squirrel or beaver might have done just as well...
...reflection on Author Feuchtwanger's character, TIME'S description traced a resemblance, intended no insult. Let it be beaver or squirrel for those who prefer...
Last week most of Pennsylvania's beavers stayed safely inside their big stick & mud lodges while trappers waited for warm weather to thaw out streams and ponds. With 50,000 trappers in prospect, the Game Commission has limited each one to ten traps, a catch of not more than six beavers during the season. No beaver may be dug or smoked from his lodge, or shot except when found alive in a trap. But the wise trapper, setting his trap a little back from the water's edge, weights it with a heavy stone to drag the struggling...
...Beaver pelts were once standard wilderness money, accepted by Indians and whites at about $4 each. A prime pelt now brings up to $20. Best pelts, deep, lustrous, dark brown, come from Alaska, northeastern Canada, northeastern U. S. Pelts from states east of the Rocky Mountains, except Michigan and Wisconsin, are paler, worth from $4 to $12. Last week furriers were waiting to see the trophies of Edward Boop and other Pennsylvanians before they set a price...