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Among the horses he beat was Karabas, winner of last year's Laurel International, and had Piggot been urging Nijinsky instead of restraining him, there is no telling how large the margin of victory might have been-ten lengths. fifteen lengths, twenty...
...DELIA arrived in Alaska in 1948, worked for a while in Ketchikan, then drifted over to the Skwentna region, where he built a cabin and started trapping. Skwentna is good mixed-fur country-mink, marten, lynx, wolf, otter, beaver, muskrat. Fifteen years ago, trappers got good money for these pelts. Minks, for example, brought about $36 each; today Joe Delia is lucky to average $10. Lynxes, on the other hand, have improved. You can get $60 apiece-when you find one: the reproduction cycle has made this animal scarce...
...marten this fall for $1,100, and sold about $900 worth of pelts this spring. Guidin' is my main income now. As a guide for one of the big outfits, I get $45 a day, eleven hundred a month guaranteed. By taking out my own hunters, I make fifteen hundred in two weeks. However, that takes me away from home for three months at a time. "As far as the professional trapper is concerned, he's just about gone. Take this country here. In recent years, there's been oil exploration. Last year they were drivin...
...rather see a happy medium. I'd like to see some woods and some animals around, and a place where a guy can get out once in a while, hunt and fish without tanglin' lines with fifteen other people down the line. But the oil is bound to bring in people, and it's bound to lose that old Alaska. A lot of places you don't even see it any more. You see locks on cabin doors. Heck, the only cabin I got with a lock on it is the post office...
...speakers seemed to be in favor of a resolution introduced by Jerry Gordon and Jim Lafferty. Members of the audience were calling for equal time for those who wanted to speak for and against the proposal. One man had been trying to raise a point of order for fifteen minutes. The chairman said he would not stop in midbreath to deal with...