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The Beginning of the
Blue Fox Industry
(Blue Fox Magazine.)
Thru the kindness of Mr. W. J.
Erskine, of Kodiak, the secretary has
recently had the opportunity of go
ing over a copy of the records of
the old Semidii Blue Fox Propagat
ing Company, as published in the
Kodiak Fox Farm report, addressed
to the secretary of commerce in 1915.
This report is an exhaustive one cov
ering the Fox raising industry in
Southwestern Alaska at that time.
The Semidii Propagating Company
records of that time show that the
company sold 5,101 blue pelts, 1890
to 1912, and 400 blue fox lor breeding
stock, during the same period.
The pelts coming principally from
Cherikoff and North Semidii Islands.
It will be remembered that little or no
feeding was done in those days, that
a caretaker’s principal duties were
those of watching the island and
catching the foxes in steel traps and
preparing the skins for shipment.
It appears that certain members of
the Semidii Propagating company
started the commercial production of
Blue foxes in 1885 by placing ten
pairs of Blues on North Semidii.
These foxes having been obtained
from the Pribilof Islands. Small
importations were made from the
same source from time to time during
the next fifteen years. Shortly after
the first importation to the Semidii
Islands two or three pairs were ob
tained from Attu and placed on one
of the Shumagin Islands by one of
the early trading post merchants at
Unga. There is no available record
of any immediate success with this
venture however. The beginning of
the industry may be said to have
started with the first importation to
North Semidii. Little headway was
made in the industry until 1910-1914
during which period considerable
growth occurred, especially in the
Inlet and Prince William Sound area
as well as to the Westward from the
Shumagin Islands to the more remote
islands of the Aleutian chain.
From 1914 to date, hte expansion of
the industry has been so rapid as
to practically cover all of the more
desirable and accessible islands, from
the end of the Aleutian chain along
the entire southern coast of Alaska
to Seattle, Washington.
With all this expansion of the in
dustry, raising from the production
of a few hundred skins at the best,
to thousands of pelts taken annually,
the supply has not kept pace with
the rapidly deminishing supply of
wild fur, and the increased demand
for fur as an article of wearing ap
parel. As far as the industry is con
cerned at the present time, it may
be said to be in its infancy, only
within the last three years have the
possibilities of raising Blue fox in
pens been actually undertaken, on
any considerable scale, and only
within the present year may the
pen raising of Blues be said to have
gotten its start. This year ship
ments of Blu eBreeding stock have
been made to Canada, Norway, Ger
many and practically all of «he
States in which fur can be gro ?-i
Nor is this undue, or abnor
mal growth of the industry for it is
only now that the Superiority of the
Blue fox, over all other fur animals,
is becoming generally known. It is
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COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD A UNDERWOOO. N. Y.J
MORE THAN 5,000 CARS CROSS NEW BRIDGE ACROSS
HUDSON ON FIRST DAY.
View of the traffic across the Bear Mountain Bridge, dedicated No
vember 24th, und thrown open to the public on Thanksgiving Day, whei
more than 5,000 automobiles crossed it. The bridge, 2,257 feet long
spans the Hudson from Peekskill, on the east bank, to Bear Mountain
giving direct route for motorists from New York to Bear Mountain ant
the Palisades Interstate Park.
,J<EVSTONjCVIEVVi£0»_N5'<-YPPA
HAS CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS
Prof. Albert Calmette, assistant di
rector of the Pasteur Institute, Par
is, who has announced to the world
a new vaccine which he has proven
before the Institute to be a preven
tative for the deadly tuberculosis.
Newborn calves, monkeys, and even
babies have been inoculated with the
vaccine and show a strong physical
ability to withstand the deadly germs
of the disease.
just being realized that the ease
with which the animal is domesticat
ed, with its ability to use any and
all of the fur animal foods, to throw
and care for large litters, producing
a utility fur of beauty and longwear
ing qualities, placed it in the first
rank of the fur animals possible of
domestication.
TIRED POSTMAN TOOK
LETTERS HOME KEPT THEM
BELFAST, Ireland, Dec. 23.—One
thousand undelivered letters were
found in the home of Thomas T. Rea
dy, a Belfast postman, who died two
years ago when the house was search
ed by the police.
The find included letters from all
parts of the world, .including regis
tered packets. Some of the letters
were dated ten years ago, and w’ere
found intact hidden under a bed and
in parts of the house.
The police surmise that Ready,
whenever he felt tired, kept the let
ters instead of delivering them.
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Three pairs to the box;
Black and Colors
TOYS! TOYS!
Gifts for the entire
family
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OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
MINNESOTAN BOOSTED AS
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—Selection
of Charles H. March of Minnesota, as
secretary of agriculture, was urged by
Gov. J. A. O’Preus of that state at a
conference with President Coolidge.
The name of March was on the list
presented by various farmers organi
zations before the president decided
on the promotion of Assistant Secre
tary Gore to be head of the depart
ment until next March 4, when he will
become governor of West Virginia.
With this vacancy in the cabinet a
certainty, many names are being laid
before Mr. Coolidge. Those mentioned
include Thomas J. Campbell of Mon
tana, sometimes described as the
largest “dry” farmer in the world.
ENGLAND HOLDS RECORD
FOR DRINKING OF TEA
LONDON, Dec. 23.—Great Britain
holds the undisputed tea-consuming
championship of the Western World.
During the last twelve months the
consumption reached the total of
8.61 pounds of tea per capita. Since
a majority of the tea drinkers prefer
the beverage sweetened, the sugar
consumption was high, 72.12 pounds
per capita.
Of the 384,067,308 pounds of tea im
ported into Great Britain during the
last twelve months, English and Scot
tish co-operative, wholesale societies,
which flourished particularly under
the Labor Government, handled one
seventh of the total of 28,718,865 hun
dredweights of sugar imported during
the same period.
Bath Brushes, 50 cents at J. L.
Graef’s. tf
Sheeplined coats at Urbach’s, tf
More than 12,000 seizures of adul
terated or misbranded foods and med
icines have been made by federal au
thorities since the passage of the pure
food and drugs act in 1906.
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