Gilpin observer., 1911-09-14
PRINCE EDwAap ISLAND.


attitude of one of her sons living in
Leadville, Colo, who frequently, spoke
of the Island, and. on being asked
what island, said: Prince Edward Is
land, what other Island is there?
When a man has been absent from
his birthplace for a quarter Of a CEN
tury, he should say with Scott:
"Rreaths there man, with soul
SO dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land.
Whose heart has ne'er within him
burned
AS home his footsteps he has turned,
From wandering on a foreign strand;
If such there breath, go mark, him
we'll;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his title, proud his name
Boundless his wealth as wish could
claim,
Despite those titles, power and pelph,
The wretch concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown
And, doubly dying, shall do down
To the vile dust, from which he
sprung,
Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
1t has been called the garden OF
the gulf and the name fits it.
For natural beauty and loveliness II
surpssses anything this side of the
Atlantic.
Its fertile soil, refreshed by period
ic rains, and evening dews, produces
all the harder products of the field,
by the hundred fold.
1t is the most fertile spot for its
acres under the sun. Its ripened har-
vest waving in the wind, reminds one
of golden sea, infringed by banks
Of emerald. The horses and cattle liv
ing in green pastures, and beside the
still waters, are in an element that
produces the best in their line. The
quiet rivers, filled with ocean water
to their source, runs inland at a hun
dred points, and disperses a scent
and an aroma that refreshes man
and beast.
Tis impossible to picture in the
minds eye. the beauties of this eden,
the farms bounded by lines of ever
green's and here and there groves of
the white birch and beach and the
bird-eye maple, make beautiful pic
ture in their different shades of
green. The drives are all through
pleasant places, the sides of the
road covered with carpet of moss
and ferns of every species, while the
canopy over head, as outstretched
arms imparting a blessing. The tenn
perature is moderate though the
summer seldom rising above rs and
the evenings are always cool and
refreshing.
Lying in the gulf of st. Lawrence,
which is the home and feeding groun
Of large bodies of fish, the waters
that bathe the shores is filled with
mackerel. herring, cod, and Holsters,
which are the highest priced fish on
the mraket, besides the inland
streams are teeming with trout of
the finest variety which make them
a fisherman's paradise.
An industry which is yet in its
infancy, but which is destined to be-
come enormous in proportions. is the
black fox business, raising them for
the fur market. A grove OF fir an'i
spruce. Of eight or ten acres is sell
ected and fenced with high wire, the
wire being sunk in the ground n
short distance and turned over hor-
izontally SO the fox cannot dig his
way out.
They are, as far as possible, ex-
cluded from the gaze Of man and the
are not to realize that they are con-
fined, and their surroundings are
to correspond to their native haunts,
in every way possible. At the seas
on of the year when their young is
coming, II anyone sees them they eat
their offspring. and they had almost
exterminated themselves before 1t
was realized. A skin brings from
$500 to $4,000 apiece and a pair for
breeding purposes brings $4,000. $
One man l heard of did over $780,
900 worth of business last year, and
others have made large fortunes out
| of the enterprise in a few years.
The inhabitants as class SEEM
ed to have imbibed somewhat of the
spirit of that bold Christian martyr
for which the gulf has been named.
As he hurled defiance at his persecu-
tors even at the stake when he died
for his convictions, so they are bold
and courageous and undaunted by
obstacles.
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