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[[underlined]] Feb. 15, [[/underlined]] 1938

Drove over to Baltimore again for all day session at Wild Life Conference.

Mostly in fur section, see program for papers checked.

Most important by R.H.G. Bonnycastle of Hudson Bay Co. - to be published.

He gave figures of $9 000 000 [[strikethrough]] trappers  [[/strikethrough]] ^[[fur crop]] in Canada at present time
$50 000 000 in U.S.
50,0000 trappers in Canada, 
2,000,000 " [[ditto for trappers]] in US
Of trappers in Canada 20 000 are Indian & Eskimo out of 40 000 population
Only Indians allowed to trap on certain areas of HBC lands. Good conservationists.