The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

average 20 cents" he continued There
is money IN them at that. for you know
how fast they propagate. II you have
ever slept over an areaway where they
| lead new candidates over the hot sands.
you have probably come to the conclu-
sion that they are one OF the compo-
nent parts OF the atmosphere. They
that you cannot breathe without draw
Ing few into your lungs
1T doesn't cost much to feed a cat
that Is not on a par with the youngest
baby in the estimation OF the family.
Slaughter house offal Is plenty good,
and there isn't an Angora gourmet that
won't come to IL when there is nothing
else about but a gopher that still has
to be caught. The river steamers carry
freight very cheaply and I could get
this material from either the towns
up the river or San Francisco. or both.
cit doesn't take a cat long to reach
the size at which its hide Is worth the
market price.
II have been trying to get a place
q
one of the San Joaquin River Islands
and make an agreement with the other
owners OF land that all my cats shall
have a free range and be undisturbed.
This would solve the gopher. squirrel
and mouse problem on the island. The
crops and levees would suffer no dam
age from any Of these rodents after my
cats had got we'll established AS the
felines. by process Of breeding and en-
vironment got wilder and bigger.
though chickens and other barnyard
fowls and birds might become feasible
game to them, and then-well I will
have to find some remedy to meet a
possibility OF my farm product being
declared a nuisance or a menace to
the fowl-raiser of the neighborhood-
II have been looking around since
arrived here" said he. and I have seen
hundreds Of cats among the ruins. The
majority OF them plainly showed signs
OF distress. and If you simmered the
matter down to purely a matter of
mercy 1t would be good thing if they
could be disposed Of
How will 1 get possession OF these
homeless cats? Why that's the easiest
part OF my contemplated enterprise.
I'll lease an old building or erect a
small one on some vacant lot. near the
city front and inclose a portion of the
structure for the receiving of cats.
Then I'll put an advertisement in all
the papers offering Is. 25. 80 cents. or
more, If need be, for cats delivered to
me at my establishment In this way
I expect to get several thousand cats
and kittens, enough to start my farm
going
DO you recall time in your boy
hood when some one for joke placed
an advertisement in the papers for
a cat and gave the address of some
friend. and OF the hundred or more
boys that were there the next morning
bright and early ready to deliver the
goods? Well. my advertisement will
have the same IL not better results. for
the producers OF cats viii keep coming
until I have accumulated enough Of the
cats to begin the preliminary work at
the island cattery"
Walker says 1t is his plan to leave
the cats on the island undisturbed for
at least two years. by which time prop
agation will have proceeded to an en-
couraging extent. Then he will begin
killing for pelts. disposing of the re-
mains of the animals by crematory
process.
The cat man has gone to Chicago
again to look at his farms there. He
will return shortly and then the San
Francisco small boy can get all the cir
Gus money he wants catching cats.