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pahannock and Colonial Beach. 1 buy muskrat, beaver, otter and raccoon mostly. ‘Rats’ are the biggest catch."
His New York connection picks up all the skins Thomas can collect and then remarkets the pelts in Hong Kong.
Thomas also sells trapping supplies but as with the fur business, his clients are all from outside the county. “There's not a trapper left in Rapphannock," he noted.
That's not to say he’s uninvolved in local business deals. The tour of the fox cages was delayed while Baldwin traded money to a young county man in exchange for a bag of copper. "1 buy copper, old batteries, all kinds of junk,” he explained.
Orchardiat Too
Crates at his fruit stand hold enough apples to put the entire medical profession out of work: winesaps, golden delicious, staymans, red delicious and such old fashioned varieties as
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