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Bellevue Blaine Co Idaho Dec 24/1935
for more than 30 years. His position as Game Warden demanded that he make frequent visits to all local trappers to check on all furs taken in the district. He said that all the different types of mammals expected in this area were being taken and that he was sure that he could within the next week get almost any fur that I demanded. He also thought that if he spoke to the various trappers that they would gladly save skulls and skeletons of all the mammals trapped. He invited me to accompany him on all his excursions to see trappers, from Picabo to Galena Summit. He said that Martin was regularly caught, and I would have no trouble getting a skin and several skulls. While he was with us we visited Mr Linderman, a trapper, living on the outskirts of Hailey, and picked up a beaver pelt which had been caught accidentally. The skin was several weeks old, so the skull was not obtainable.
Working with Mr Wright I should be able to seek out all the trappers in this vicinity and all contacts will be made through his respected authority. Tomorrow is Christmas Day so all business activities will be suspended, and the day will be spent in the field.