Word: marten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were particularly pleased with our freshmen again," Essick said. The freshmen 400-yard medley relay team of Neil Marten, Ted Fullerton, Brent Haywood, and George Keim swept past a veteran Harvard medley relay team as well as two Army entries to win that event...
...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...
...starve to death," he says. "Oh, we could make it all right, but just the trappin' even for a single man, you can hardly afford the gas for your outboard engine. Trappin' for me is more a fill-in now. I sold 53 mink and 45 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...