Northwest History. Alaska. Forest Fires.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1929
• Subjects: air fur trips; Seward; Alaska; Noel Wein; Cape North Siberia; development of airplane service; Alaskan towns; remote region; arctic furs; Herschell island; Queensland; arctic islands; New York markets; Seattle; airplane laborious efforts; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Cape North; Pacific; white fox; Siberia
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91733

Ready For Air Fur Trips: Hope To Hasten Marketing Of Remote Collections. READY FOR AIR FUR TRIPS Hope to Hasten Marketing of Remote Collections. SEWARD, Alaska. -- The flight of Noel Wein to Cape North Siberia and return with a $100,000 cargo of white fox pelts is believed to foreshadow the development of airplane service between Alaskan towns and even more remote regions where rich collections of arctic furs are held. Attempts will be made in a few weeks by Wein and other aviation to reach Herschell island, Queensland and several arctic islands. These places generally hold their furs until a trader's boat reaches their ports late in summer. If air transport can be established vast stores of high grade furs will be placed on the Seattle and New York markets while the winter's high prices prevail. The airplane has already eliminated weeks of delay which were formerly accepted as a necessary part of the laborious effort to move the winter's take of skins.