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Buyers would stop at the farm and say, "Your pelts have quality, Carl, but they lack size." Mulling over this, Piampiano remembered a friendly Indian guide in northern Canada who had boasted of catching rare, big, square-nosed, smooth-haired mink. He wrote to the guide, asking for one of the brutes. Two years later, in 1951, "Big Boy" arrived in Zion and became founding father of a new breed...
...retaliation, the Americans toyed with the notion of sneaking into the sable grounds of Russia's Baikal region and doing a bit of poaching. They even went so far as to pick a leader for the expedition: a much-decorated Army lieutenant colonel named Carl Piampiano. The harebrained scheme never materialized, but Piampiano was by then intrigued with the mink business and bought himself a ranch in Zion...
Well-Invested. Piampiano carefully bred Big Boy to his conventional mink, anxiously watched for large, square-nosed offspring. It took twelve years to produce 13 such mutants. Finally the breed began to multiply as nicely as well-invested money. Piampiano franchised 22 top mink ranchers to raise the new minks...
...before the auctioneer in New York. While conventional mink skins average about $35 apiece, fur experts figure that the new pelts will sell for as much as $2,000 each. This means that the first mable coats, made up of some 50 skins, will cost $150,000 or more. Piampiano hopes that his partners will produce 35,000 pelts in 1970 and eventually reach 100,000 pelts annually-hardly a dent in the 7,000,000 mink skins on the U.S. market last year, but enough to bring the price per coat down to a less incredible...
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