The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-11

the time when Jason went
/. = ~ ia search of the golden fleece
|'ns ,,cob Astor laid the foundation
6rst great american fortune,
- sa,tinc of animals for their pelts
business which has tempted
,..enturous and protitcd the thrift
DIV Il remained for the Yankees
sh,;sh an artificial source of fur
81 bv rearing animals especially
.s,;r pelts. There arc now perhaps
successful fox farms on which are
E.,od and reared the valuable
Skunk farms have been
iv; in several States, and a few
sa have been mcasurably success
aTT,a Alaska experiments are be-
..de IN rearing bears for their
Ninks. Beavers and ottcrs arc
s,h;sets Of experimental fur farm
ss sIso; but 90 a very limited scale.
4, III those experiments, blue fox
has been the only one which
ns lg ,loned into considerable indus
IN some thirty~fve of the bleak
4 hsrren islands Of the Alcutian
stretcbing from Alaska almost
|iGa. fox farms arc successfully
|;nrisd On n somewhat smaller
s nrodtsble fox farms are TO be
ou islands belonging to Maine,
/,scre is at least one in the interior
-.ynopt. Colorado also has new |
1 spserve. The smaller Alaskan |
Il which are almost wholly un~
Live. ara leased by the fur
- from The Government for an
ii rental of about 500 each. A |
4 n blue foxes may he purcha scd
|N50 TO 5000. according TO size and .
Ii0ue of the most successful pre-
y Was started with lO4 foxes and /
II wears there were 1915 animals
In island \ period of ten or
4, years IS allowed before a profit.
return is TO nc expected
\, blae fox is very valuable ami
IL single skin being worth from
IN $50 on the London market Its
Ia Of a gray-blue color and quite
,ni thick. IL is moro easily
/asd than other varieties of foxes,
Stag almost tame In the Alas
|i,land farms, the foxes are fed on
|Ecsl mush. made with blubber and
In, and they will respond 10 calls
|,sding time much as any domestic
<ab. They arc extremely suspicious
rangers, however, and arc not in
"a 10 seek the company of their
|-Hs, except when being fed
"A
=, foxes arc trapped in boxes so
/, ,iose to be kept for breeding viii
\ Ikinjurod The carefully selected
Ihug foxes arc marked by clipping
/; lils. Once A breeding fox has
i,ud trap and been liberated. he
/sH nuisance to the keepers for.
Ele that no harm will come to him.
fdngs every trap he can find as
Xp il is set, III order 10 get The
Fith which il is balted
- rare silver fox, whose black pelt
rrally worth It's weight In gold,
Yen ibc subject of experimental
\ but, so far, without success The
fox is, i'll fact, but u color phrase
red fox. and in domestic propa-
there is a reversion 10 the com.
/Fe. The male is very ferocious
l/sll destroy the Young as soon as
he born. The same thing is true
valuable crossfoX, highly priced J
y markings. II is believed by l
fpr trade experts that it, is per
feasible TO propagate the pre-.
Russian sable in The Alaskan {
and some small experiments :
bsen undertaken.
4
fath fox farm island there is I
and two or three native assist. (
1ost Of the food supply comes {
hs surrounding waters and there G
expense attached TO the under. Z
4 Time is required. however, 10 c
colony of foxes large enough 10 =
aany Of them to he killed for g
/Ielts While the fur Of foxes h