Beaver Real Estate
It is not surprising that the name of the animal that exercised such influence in the history of the West should be attached to so many geographic features. There are three post offices in Oregon with Beaver as the dominant part of the name and several score of creeks, mountains, and buttes. Beaver post office in Tillamook County was established in August 1889. The American beaver (Castor canadensis and its subspecies) occupied a wide field on this continent and existed in great numbers. Beavers are heavily built and are covered with long, coarse hairs overlying the short, dense, and silky underfur to which beaver skins owe their value. The abundance and high value of this fur had a great influence in the early exploration and development of North America. Beaver skins were the one ready product of the western world that the merchants elsewhere were eager to purchase, and as a consequence the competition in trapping was keen to the point where it caused international complications. Beaver skins passed as a standard of barter.
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