Found an old letter from 1962. 4 Red Fox were caught in 1962 by my Brother. He sold them to a School Teacher. Her Husband was a Lawyer. Now, I don't know how much School Teachers made per year back in 1962, so , It might have been the Lawyer Husband that paid for the 4 Red Fox Pelts. I guess she had them made into a long Fox Stool . ,

A. How much were Red Fox selling for in 1962?

B. How much do you think the Teacher/ Lawyer Husband ended up paying for those 4 pelts ???

In 1964 I sold 4 reds for $1,25 each, put up (not in the carcass). Would have been about the same in 1962. They also had a $3.00 bounty on the ears, most guys did not skin, only scalped them.

I was trapping every year in the 60s and they were not worth trapping for sure. The few I caught in mink sets I sold round for one dollar. Friends that hunted with a plane for the bounty in North Dakota a few years earlier had a huge pile of round shot fox and sold the entire lot of hundreds for 10 cents each.

In Ohio they were $2-3 max, There was a bounty at the time believe it was $5 if I remember correctly

and gas for that plane was 12 cents a gallon.
Bounty paid for many a new snow machine back in the day

I recall dad selling his in Virginia in the early 60's Reds brought $2.25 and greys brought $1.75. The furbuyer told dad that if the foxes had the tails on them, they would have brought $.25 more. Dad laughed and asked why the tails were worth a quarter. The furbuyer just said that's the way his client pays.

At the time dad was trapping foxes for rabies control working for the Virginia Department of Health. They removed the tails to turn in as proof of catch. They weren't supposed to sell the foxes they caught, but dad couldn't see wasting them. I remember he did tell me to keep my mouth closed about them.

!! then and I remember 2dollars and a 5 dollar bounty

$5.00 bounty in PA, pelt wasn't worth keeping.

Not much at around $2 each.I was only 1 year old in 1962

You have a good memory Bruce T. I don't remember squat when I was 1, lol.

5 dollar bounty in the U P of Michigan at the time. Cats were also 5, female coyotes 20 and males 15. Fur wasn’t worth much. But you could trap all year.

Yes can climb stairs.

So it seems both teachers and lawyers could afford red fox in the early 60s.

Shoot, the Game Commission was ripping me off. I was only getting $4 for fox and it took an owl to get $5

I do not recall but I was born in April 62! LOL

Had a senior moment and I stand corrected, it was $4.00. Thanks ebsurveyor.

My neighbor and trapping mentor complained to me once about having sold 200 red fox in 1955 to H.E. Goldberg in Seattle and got two bits apiece. This was the early 70's and he still was complaining. These were fox he picked up on his dry land mink line.

Thought it would've been more than that. Interesting.

Back then they had only 2.00 bounty.

Fox bounty in South Dakota was 7.50 adult, 2.50 pup. Badger was 4.00 adult and 2.00 pup. I bountied quite a few of all during the later 1950s but am not sure when the bounties ended