Historic high Fisher prices......
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09/23/20 09:05 PM
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J.Morse
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.....were during what decade? I'm talking back when a fellow would find a track and follow it for days hoping to catch up to it.
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Re: Historic high Fisher prices......
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09/23/20 09:11 PM
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My best was 165.00... had 11 that year...averaged around 125.00... ..The good ol days about 15 years ago...lol
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Re: Historic high Fisher prices......
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09/23/20 09:25 PM
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Thanks folks. I couldn't remember if it was the early 20's, or later, during the Depression.
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Re: Historic high Fisher prices......
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09/24/20 06:49 PM
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J Morse, I'm not old enough, albeit close, to have partaken in the early 80s fisher trapping but they tell me that a good female was worth a weeks or more of wages in our part of the world
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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Re: Historic high Fisher prices......
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09/25/20 11:23 AM
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One fellow told me after he caught one in the 1920's he sold it and purchased 160 acres. In the 1970's he sold that land for 1.5 million dollars was river front. now the lots are going for 750.000$ with the sub-divisions. Now THAT is a fur boom! I was in on the boom of the late 70's/early 80's, but even that was pale compared to the buying power of a dollar in the early part of our last century. Imagine catching one single critter that paid you enough to buy a farm. That compares to what the old original Mt. Men were able to do. If they could keep their hair, and not die from an infected tooth, it was possible to come back east with enough to buy a real good chunk of ground. What would the price paid for a pelt today have to be to be the equivalent? A quarter million for one Beav, so you could buy Uncle Hershel's 120 acres. Of course you'd have to catch two more to afford the equipment to operate it.
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Re: Historic high Fisher prices......
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09/25/20 11:33 AM
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I believe the price of a beaver pelt in the 1920's,extrapolated to todays values,a beaver would bring over $500 dollar avg per pelt.So just 200 beaver pelts would get you a fur cheque around $100,000. Only problem was in the 20's 3 or 4 beaver would be a phenomenal take by a trapper,almost unheard of.
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Re: Historic high Fisher prices......
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09/25/20 04:11 PM
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November of 1924 George I. Fox in N.Y.C. put out a catalog listing beaver prices as $6-$40 USD. Large prime dark Fisher at $75- $150. Otter at $20-$45 Red Fox at $15-$35. Coons at $4- $14. Wild Mink at $5-$20. All depending upon primeness for the New England region. Calculate that for inflation, just google "value of 1924 dollars today". About 15-16X. So Boco's value estimate is pretty close! I'd say trappers were better paid than Lawyers for the time.
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Re: Historic high Fisher prices......
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09/26/20 04:12 PM
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My Grandfather grew up in southern Minnesota in the late 1800's and early 1900's. He trapped and hunted as all his brothers did to support the family. He told me that about 1905 he caught a huge mink. The buyer said it was the largest he had bought all season. He remembers getting $28 for it. At the time his dad was working at a feed store for less than a dollar a day. He also talked about spearing muskrats, and selling for 15 or 20 cents a piece.
All you "Woke" people need to go back to sleep!
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