FOX AND FUR AUTHORITY D. E. STUBBS, M’KIN
LEY PARK, PRESENTS SUGGESTION TO LO
CAL CHAMBER; WOULD INCLUDE RAILROAD
BELT AND WESTWARD DISTRICTS.
FOX FARMERS WANT ARBITRARY
RULINGS CHANGED
Hold Thut Animals Born and Raised in Captivity are
Domesticated; Evils of Recent Petersburg Commun
ication Effect Coast and Interior Ranchers.
When ever D. E. Stubbs, fox ranch
er near McKinley Park, has anything
to say, especially with regards to the
Alaska fur industry, his observations
are payed close heed to for he ranks
as one of the leading fox and fur au
thorities in the territory.
The following communication from
Mr. Stubbs, addressed to the Saward
Chamber of Commerce, presents sev
eral matters in which are contained
much food for thought.
The letter follows:
Seward Chamber of Commerce
Seward, Alaska.
Gentlemen
I noticed an item in a recent issue
of the Seward Gateway, telling of the
receipt of a communication from the
Petersburg Commercial Club, asking
for co-operation opposing many of the
evils now besetting the fur ranchers
of Alaska.
The evils their communication
enumerates are very live ones, and
effect both the coast and Interior to
a degree that almost amounts to ex
termination, among the fur ranchers
of the territory.
Many of the arbitrary rulings of the
Alaska Game Commission and other
bureaus here, have placed the fur
ranching industry in Alaska in the
light so that no prudent investor will
risk his money, and it is hoped you
will realize, although it is something
of a territorial problem, it does lo
cally hinder the development oi a
greater number of fur ranchers around
Seward, especially to the westward,
and in that sense is a local question
that you should take up.
While we of the Interior are inter
ested in Silver-Black foxes only, 1
wrote an article for the Prosperitj
Edition of the Seward Gateway ir
which I stepped on some of the evils
hurting the Blue fox ranchers, anc
got an awful rise out of some of th<
•“bureaus.”
One of the evils they don’t mention
and which we have taken up with ou:
-delegate to Congress to try and hav<
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changed, is the arbitrary ruling that
all pen born and raised animals are
“wild animals,” no matte how long
they have been bred from the wild.
We hold that animals, born and raised
in captivity, registered, scored, pedi
greed, tatooed, are domesticated ani
mals by every meaning in the English
language. The proper classification
here would automatically remove
many of the evils mentioned by the
Petersburg Commercial club.
Another matter we think the Sew
ard Chamber of Commerce should
take up and develop, is the matter ol
holding each year in Seward a num
ber of auction fur sales. These woulc
Buick value
is winning
a larger
share of
public favor
every day*
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eighteen
years to
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first million
Buicks but
only thirty
three
months
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»
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pay for themselves, and would prove
a great benefit to both fur ranchers
and trappers.
Of necessity these sales would need
to be conducted slightly different from
the New York auction fur sales, but
it would be surprising the large num
ber of trappers and ranchers who
would list their furs for the sales.
Many of these sales coming as they
would during the time tourists are
making the journey this way, would
result in selling 70 per cent of the
fur listed.
And if their offering didn’t sell at
one sale they are not a bit worse off
than they are now —fur is nearer the
outside.
Your Chamber could readily induce
the Alaska Railroad and steamers
plying westward to give an attractive
fare to these sales, and many of the
owners would attend the sales in per
son.
The business would soon run well
over one hundred thousand dollars.
I would further suggest in addition
to your own members you appoint to
the auction sales committee, five live
fur men from different points to the
westward and two or three from the
Interior on the committee, since this
feature is not wholly a local one. Mr.
Garrett Snyder, mink rancher, Wasil
la, Alaska, is a live wire.
Respectfully,
D. E. STUBBS
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