Show THE STATUS O OF THE FOX RANCH It comes from Boston that W. W H. H Purdy of Dorchester has just paid twenty for twenty silver black foxes and further that these foxes were raised on a f fox x ranch in southern Alaska and nd were brought to Tacoma Wash where the sale was consummated These foxes were purchased purchased pur pur- chased to place on a fox farm farmon on on Prince Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward island where the account says there are sixty fox farms that pay from 40 to 90 per cent per per annum One of these foxes that weighs a afew afew atm few tm ounces less than twenty pounds is valued at t All of this is interesting but the question is how w Mr Ir Pinchot failed to declare the farms and foxes were property of the Unit United d States and to set them aside as a ar r reservation for the b benefit of all the people of the United States The Alaska farm was w as pro property petty of the ted States so were the foxes How has this great injustice to all the people of the the the-re re- re republic public been permitted to assume such vast proportions proportions pro pro- portions Why should a single individual be bep p permitted t to thus usurp national rights and andr r realize alize for twenty foxes foxe I A fox is not wilder than a waterfall not more mare stable than thana a coal measure not more mat material ma ma- t aerial r ril than a timber tract Why should these things be tied up tip in a reservation and the pioneer pio- pio o neer user neer be permitted to stake out outa a fox farm to raise and sell foxes True it may be a bit lonely out on a fox ranch but look at the profits of the thing and figure out how much I t the 4 e people have been swindled by the sale |