£1 FOR A WOLF

Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 7

£1 FOR A WOLF

The Canadian Government has revived the old wolf bounty.

, Wolves have steadily increased in the northern regions. Originally the Dominion paid 30 dollars for each wolf killed. Later this was; reduced to 20 dbllars in 1932, and then eliminated t|ie following year. . Now, however, the , wolves have so increased again that the Dominion has been forced to renew the bounty. ! The amount will not be on the old scale, however. When the Government paid 30 dollars or 20 dollars for *the killing of a wplf, the authorities took the pelt and sold it later. Under the new plan the trapper gets five dollars and keeps the pelt, for which there is a ready market. The increase in the ravages of wolves has made no change, however, in the offer of the editor of the Sault Ste Marie newspaper to pay 100 dollars to anyone who can prove he has been attacked by a wolf. The editor has championed the cause of the wolf (as a non-combatant) for many years, but nobody has ever been able to claim his 100 dollars. Veteran trappers and pioneer traders of the north agree that a lone wolf will not attack a man And that there has been no case on record in Canada of such an incident.