Great Alligators

Alligators were formerly one of the chief animal 'ife tenants of Red River and '.öe bayc"s of Louiaiana, where, befoxo steamlK-at navigation came to interrupt thom, they could be seen by hundreds huddlefl together on the banks or ma sad on the floatlng or stationary logs- ■ especlally of Red River -waking tL? Golitudes of the forest with their bull-like bellowing. Their len&th was renerally between eight and twelve test, although they sometimes grew to be twenty feet long, Their hides " re once used extensively for the makins of shoes, but Uhe leather, not pro"lag of sufficiently close texture to ke=p water out, shoemaklng from this material was abandoned.