The Wrangell sentinel., 1921-06-30
The Carlson -Jakobitz
 Fox Farm

stand thick and high and the under brush IS tangled mass is an un- dertaking that requires time and strength. After the fallen giants have been converted into the walls of neat houses, hand-split shakes for the root coverings and piles of good tire-wood, there are still the stumps acre after acre of them. Stump-pulling for the clearing of one lot is good-sized job; to tackle a 4o-acre tract is a Job that looks endless but for every stump re- moved there will be garden space that will yield richly in vegetables and fruit, and one more tract will have been reclaimed from the will derness eventually.
 Just outside the city limits lies the newest Wrangell farm, the homestead taken up by MT. and | Mrs. Oscar Carlson and A. ako- hltz. It is not farm in the States sense of that word but the begin- ming of the Alaska kind, a fur farm. The work on 1t was started only few months ago but large clear ing has been made and several of the necessary buildings have been put up.
 The location is a beautiful one. facing the bay and open to the sun shine. Mir. Jakobitz lives on the place in log cabin made of spruce logs and spruce shakes with a wide porch roof extending out from the entrance. In the fall, MT. and Mrs. Carlson expect to occupy a larger house which will be erected further up on the hill. Nearby are several chickenhouses. One of these, in which the small chicks are kept, is built of logs. Pens have been made for mink in which the tarm will specialize later. In each pen is a mink-house constructed according to special design. The mink enter and leave these little houses by round aperture about three inches in diameter. Two of the three animals which occupy the pens at present were brought to the farm from a distance but the third practically invited himself to be- come member of the colony. He came out of the woods, wandered around the pens and was caught within a few minutes when a trap was set for him.
 Another building contains a num- Der of Siberian hares. The fur of these animals is soft and glossy and the skin is exceedingly strong. As food, the Siberian hare is de- licious.
 The greatest attraction on the farm is Cutey. Cutey is a beaver. He swan SO close to the Karen re- gently and left his tail where it could be grasped so conveniently when he went under log that Cap tain knig Johansen yielded to temptation and lifted him out os the water by the exposed append age. Cutey rewarded the Captains hospitality by attempting to de- mollsh the interior structure of the, Karen and would no doubt have gnawed his way to freedom had he not been removed from the boat. On the Carlson Jakobitz fur farm where kind treatmen. was assured, he has been given Generous space. properly protected with wire net ting, A substantial barrel lying on lts side gives him shelter and from within it he looks out upon a pond where he may swim when he so desires. He has made large holes ia a box and weakened the supports that hold the wire netting but he has made no attempt to eat his home, the barrel. His funny antics when he deigus to leave this shelter have won for him his name. His present owners have written to Washington to ascertain if 1t is naDacc a U tn rzr,,o.k