No, I assure you the trophy for which payment is made is a pair of paws (I've
sat at the table where they were submitted), and after
nearly a hundred and fifty years, I assume the locals can tell what they are
seeing. Could be things are different in the Dakotas...
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> Although we're sort of drifting off the topic a bit, we had to save the
> tails. You take the dead gopher lay it on a rock and with a second
> rock, you smash the tail until you cut it loose from the body. If you
> had you trusty pocket knife you didn't need the rocks. Other animals
> get the remains as a tastee snack,& the farmer has fewer gophers eating
> his crops. Normally the county establishes the bounty depending on the
> quantity of the pests.
>
> Perhaps because the gopher is the national animal/rodent of Minnesota,
> they might be held to a different standard. Ducking for cover!
>
> It might have been rabbit's foot (paws) that your thinking about as they
> were commonly sold in the 5 & 10 Store.
>
> Bob Werre
> PhotoTraxx.com
> >
> >
> > The local festival goes well back into the nineteenth century, the
> > Viola (MN) Gopher Count each June;
> > the town clerk is a member of my congregation and they still pay for
> > every set of paws (I believe it
> > is now several dollars per).
> >
> > The WAG boxcars (mostly ex-B&M) were often labeled "For Hide Loading
> > Only"; I'm not sure of the
> > source for the hides--could well have been from the midwest--but a
> > major industry in northwestern
> > Pennsylvania was leather tanning, especially at Elkland PA, which got
> > started with the abundant hemlock
> > bark from the lumbering industry.
> >
> > Jace Kahn
> >
> > General Manager
> > Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> >
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