Erickson Brothers – Trappers Bring Valuable Furs – 1920
Trappers Bring Valuable Furs
Erickson Brothers Had Big Season in Clearwater, Idaho, Country.
Andrew and Carl Erickson arrived in Missoula late Friday and for the first time in four and one-half months they walked on the ground, without snowshoes strapped upon their feet. For that length of time they have been out in the dense forests and virgin country about Packers’ Meadows, in the country to the west of Lolo Hot Springs, known as the Clearwater region of Idaho, engaged in trapping.
The two men brought in with them the result of half of their winters’ trapping, and sold the skins to Bissinger and company of Missoula for $1,275. During the winter they sold another lot of furs which they sent to the Taylor Fur company of St. Louis for an equal amount.
The furs which they displayed in Missoula last evening consisted of 25 mink, 51 marten, four coyote, one cross fox and 145 weasel skins.
The two brothers went into the wilds early in December, and they went in with the plan of carrying out their winter’s work on a large scale. They followed their plans from the start successfully, despite heavy storms which struck them high up in the mountains at times. Not once, they said, did the snow get below the depth of ten feet, and many times in many places it was deeper than that.
The above article appeared in The Daily Missoulian on April 18, 1920.
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