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21 COLMAN DOCK
Seattle, Wash.
HOTEL ST. CHARLES
When In Seattle, make the
Hotel St. Charles your head
quarters.
Strictly Modern and
Fireproof
And Managed by an old
Alaskan
J. A. FARNHAM.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd FeliowB
Hall. All visit
i n g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER. Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. A A. M.
A Stated communications first
'^rcnfand third Wednesdays of each
/^r\month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
—Meets every Thursday at
8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, Hext to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martinides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows' Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows'
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
Mrs.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, V. O.
VIEW OP COLUMBIA GLACIER
HUNTING FOX
BUSINESS NOW
INSTEAD SPORT
FOX FARMING HAS FLAVOR OF A
KLONDIKE RUSH OF A FLO
RIDA REAL ESTATE BOOM
Fox hunting has changed from a
rollicking sport to a business of
Show Cards,
Posters,
Movie Slides,
Cartoons,
Advertising,
Publicity.
E. F. JESSEN,
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
* *Qood Water a Necessity in Every Home”
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING '
HOTEL SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD’S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMER8
MEET
VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
STEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
_Convenient to Depot and Dock
the bonanza variety. Crafty Mr. Rey
nard, once commonly chased with
horses, horns, and hounds, is now
hunted with hard, cold dollars—and it
takes many to catch him. Red-coafed
hunters with white pants and flashy
topped boots, prancing mounts, and
yelping packs have been disappearing
rapidly with the wild fox and are sel
dom seen except under glass in a pic
ture frame.
With all the fox’s bag of tricks, .con
taining hundreds of ways of escaping
his enemy—told about in Aesop’s Fa
bles—few of Ms kind roam freely in
the woods. Many of the best wild
foxes have been put behind wire net
ting on fox farms.
But the chase for Mr. Fox’s hide
goes on. The end and aim of the
game today is the fox, the same as it
was when Jerrocks wrote that some
men went "to see,” "to be seen,” or
"for the ride out,” "for the ride
’ome,” "for happetites,” and “for
’ealth,” while others wrent “to get
away from their wives and a few to
unt.”
Silver fox farming in the United
States within the last ten or fifteen
pears has had the flavor of a Klon
iike gold rush of a Florida real es
tate boom. Some of the schemes
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CARLE
ORLANDER
AGENT
SEWARD, ALASKA
Photo Albums, $1
Shop.
to $9—Alaska
tf
have been branded “foxy finance,”
arousing suspicion to the point where
investigations were made.
A striking example is that of Dr.
Frank H. Gordon, a former dentist
of Bangor, Me., whose project was
investigated last spring by the Unit
ed States district attorney at Boston,
Mass., because he had sold contracts
for silver foxes, handling within
three years approximately 3 million
dollars and paying large sums to in
vestors. The investigators found the
business was legitimate and cleared
the enterprise from suspicion.
Hundreds of silver fox farms have
been established in the Rocky Moun
tain states. Fox farming is also car
ried on extensively in Alaska and
most of the Canadian provinces. It
was first successively established in
the Canadian province of Prince Ed
ward Island more than thirty years
ago, ■ but it was not until 1910 that
this new specialized type of farming
was tackled in the United States.
'Silver fox farming has become an
established branch of agriculture in
this country and as a new source of
revenue federal experts have made a
careful study of the entire business.
Following a thoro study, a govern
ment expert announces, “As would
be expected in the case of a new
and profitable industry, erroneous im
pressions have been entertained, the
result of misleading statements made
partly thru lack of authentic infor-!
mation and partly with the purpose :
of interesting investors.”
Both the Canadian and United
States governments are vitally inter
ested and are working with ranchers
and farmers, just as they do with
cattle and hog raisers, to find out
better methods. The United States
government maintains a silver fox
experiment farm at Keeseville, N. Y.,
and it is understood that another
one will be established soon in Mich
igan, where several silver fox farms
are already in operation.
Raising foxes on farms, as we
would chickens, jigs and calves, is
the outgrowth of reckless trapping
and shooting of wild fur bearing ani
mals. Fur until 1S89 was one of the
principal exports of this country, but
the trappers and hunters, innocently
or otherwise, kept up their annual
slaughtering and pelting until the
end of the wild fur bearer is in
sight unless it is rigidly protected.
It is now an importing proposition and
has been ifor several years.
The federal government is taking
steps to encourage states to protect
the wild fur bearing animals, but with
all the latvs and conservation pro- l
grams there will still be room for
fox farms, authorities say.
Ned Dearborn, in a government .
publication, says high prices for furs
are equivalent to large bounties or re
wards for killing fur animals, and un
less steps to counterbalance them
are taken immediately we may look
to see these animals practically ex
terminated in many places.
“Reports,” he says, “from raw fur
buyers indicate that fur animals
have decreased graetly during the
last decade, several estimates run
ning as high as 50 per cent.”
The rapid decrease in wild fur an- |
imals and the increase in populaton
with a growing demand for fur wraps
of various sorts, have made the do
mestication of fur animals such as
the silver and blue fox, the skunk,
and the muskrat a necessary and
profitable business.
There are several publications is
sued by the United States depart
ment of agriculture, Washinpton, D.
C., dealing with silver foxes and oth
er fur animals, including circular 135,
“'Maintenance of Fur Supply;” bulle
tins 1,151, 301, and farmers’ bulle
tin number 795, “Domesticated Silver
| Fox.”
The steamer Starr of the San
Juan Fishing & Packing Company, is
due to return to Seward from the
Westward, Dec. 23. Another account
of the ship will be found in Associ
ated Press dispatches in another
column of this issue.
For Electrical Work
CALL TOM OSBO
Residence—Madison 123
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Clean, Sanitary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prices
Keep Us Busy.
LANDERS & SWANSON
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
When you have any work In
Plumbing or Steam
Fitting
NEW OR REPAIRS, AND
SHEET METAL WORK
R. F. TILLMAN.
Back of Brown & Hawkins
PHONE ADAMS 80
LAUNDRY DONE ON SHORT
NOTICE
Special Care Taken of Silks and of all
woolens
AMANDA'S LAUNDRY
Next Door to the Belmont Hotel.
PHCfNE MADISON 126.
SEWARD CLUB
Under New
MANAGEMENT
OLD AND NEW
FRIENDS INVITED
ED ERICKSON
Alaska Interior Silver
Black Foxes, a limited*
number of 1925 pups will1
be sold this season. If you
wish good foxes to start
your ranch with. Let me
furnish you your breeders
Price $500 per Pair f. o. b.
Kasilof, Alaska
KasSof Silver Fox Raach
Louis Nissen, Propr.
Kasilof, Alaska