Eighteen Tons of Deer Skins Arrive in Seattle
A single shipment of 115 bales of hides, bought from hunters across the mountains and islands of the North Pacific coast, shows how fast the Northwest's game is being thinned out.
It may be taken, perhaps, as an indication both of the plentifulness of big game in the Northwest and the way it is being thinned out, that deer skins were received in a large consignment by a tanning company in Seattle, Wash., a week or so ago. There were 115 bales of skins, weighing together eighteen tons. The skins were bought from hunters in the mountains of Washington and on the many islands of the North Pacific coast. They were to be used altogether in the manufacture of gloves.
“There were 115 bales of skins, weighing together eighteen tons.”
This brief item is an early record of industrial-scale wildlife harvest in Washington — eighteen tons of deer hides bound for the glove trade. A century later the same mountains and islands are managed under game limits and conservation law, a direct response to the thinning-out the paper noted in 1895.
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