Re: Ned Stark Eldred PA Fur Buyer
[Re: Trapper Dan 57]
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11/15/19 05:21 PM
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family still buys root but i don't think fur at all.used to be a half dozen in the area and now there are none.
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Re: Ned Stark Eldred PA Fur Buyer
[Re: Trapper Dan 57]
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11/15/19 05:28 PM
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deer hides but not fur.kinda always worked for the competition.some ginseng also.his tradin post was about 20 min from here.
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Re: Ned Stark Eldred PA Fur Buyer
[Re: Trapper Dan 57]
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11/15/19 10:38 PM
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I started selling muskrats and coon to him in 1972, I was 12 years old. I think he bought my furs just to keep me encouraged to stay trapping, looking back I know they were not worth a penny the way I was skinning and putting them up. He was a good man for that. All of us who trapped in high school sold our fur to him, he'd come right to our house. I went to his fur shed to sell the first beavers I trapped, well worth the trip to his place. I think it was in Turtle Point, about half way between Port Alleghany and Eldred. I grew up in Emporium, by the way, and the trapper who got most of us young guys trapping was a fella named Lamont Close, anyone remember him. We used to order traps through him. Those days are some of my best memories and those people helped influence, to some degree, the man I am today.
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Re: Ned Stark Eldred PA Fur Buyer
[Re: Bass1]
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11/15/19 10:46 PM
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I grew up in Emporium, by the way, and the trapper who got most of us young guys trapping was a fella named Lamont Close, anyone remember him. We used to order traps through him. . I wonder if he is any relation to the Close’s Lumber folks in Roulette?
Eh...wot?
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Re: Ned Stark Eldred PA Fur Buyer
[Re: John Houben]
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11/16/19 08:24 AM
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"There was more romance, excitement, and mystery at that point in trapping. The kids and others starting out in trapping today, in this high tech era, are missing out on much of these intangible, deeply satisfying aspects of trapping."
Amen
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Re: Ned Stark Eldred PA Fur Buyer
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11/16/19 08:30 AM
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Ned Stark and Lamont Close. Two names that warm my heart to hear. My Grandpa's farm was on West Eldred Road and I grew up trapping the Allegheny river flats and selling fur to Ned. I can still hear his raspy voice saying, "Boy John, it looks like you got a nice bunch of foxes there." I too was taught fur handling by Ned and in the beginning he paid me for fur that I am sure was worthless. My Dad and I often joke about Ned's chickens dragging coon carcasses around and a pan of beans cooking on the wood stove just a few feet from the fleshing beams. Monte Close attended the church that my Dad pastored in Emporium. A great fox trapper for sure from the "classic days" of Pennsylvania fox trapping. I knew Monte's nephew better and often attended summer church camp with him in Kane.
There was more romance, excitement, and mystery at that point in trapping. The kids and others starting out in trapping today, in this high tech era, are missing out on much of these intangible, deeply satisfying aspects of trapping. X 1 million-was paid 5 cents a coon to comb at age 8.what was goin on around me was priceless at that age.43 yrs later i'm still workin for buyers.
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Re: Ned Stark Eldred PA Fur Buyer
[Re: Trapper Dan 57]
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11/16/19 09:29 AM
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Great read folks. Did not know those guys but did sell to Hovis in Port Allegheny. 77-78, Found him through PTA. Never saw him again. Was told he got some misfortune shortly afterwards.
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Re: Ned Stark Eldred PA Fur Buyer
[Re: Trapper Dan 57]
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11/19/19 07:01 PM
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