Show NEW INDUSTRY ASSURED FOR CEDAR CITY MULLIGAN AND ANI MORRISON l FAMOUS IOUS BREEDERS OF 01 I PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND CANADA TO ESTABLISH SIL SILVER VEn FOX oX FARM lAUl HERE lol- lol Io lolA I l A A. A W. W FARNSWORTH WESTERN MANAGER OF MULLIGAN AND 1 MORRISON AND PRESIDENT OF m TilE THE WASATCH FUR FUU FARM OF m SALT SAIT LAKE CITY IN CEDAR CITY THIS TillS WEEK MAKING ALL ALL ALL' ARRANGEMENTS ARRANGEMENTS EME TS lot The nationally known Silver Fox breeders and raisers Mulligan and Morrison e have been in Cedar this week arranging for the establishment of a Fur Farm here to be located north of the cemetery on the Zion National Park ark Highway The e A. A W. W Farnsworth of SaltI Salt f I 11 ake aim rift stated tAId thAt flint that by Kv hv N November of his r-his- this year I all 1 pens e enclosures lo etc necessary for the proportion of the thel I Silver FOx will be completed and stocked with ith 30 or more pairs of breeding Silver Foxes Foxe Gurnsey Adams a local citizen will have of the farm u under der the direct supervision of Mul ligan and Morrison Already he has hasIn hasin hasin in charge a few pair of Foxes and these are to o be added to until un un il by November ember the the number of pairs will total 30 or more The cost of the farm when in operation operation operation oper oper- will be in the neighborhood of O this to be added to yearly earl I until it reaches leaches in the neighborhood of To appreciate in any degree the importance of the fur industry and the tile pres present nt and future position of the Silver Black Dlack Fox in that industry some knowledge e of the historical background of the Fur trade is es es- The story of the fur trading in Canada Canada Can Can- a ada a is one of the most vividly interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting struggles for wealth and commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial supremacy recorded in the history of the new world Of all the groups and individuals that contended for the profits at stake the best known and most successful successful successful suc suc- was the Hudson Bay Day Company Compan Com Com- pan pany This Company consisted of a group of eighteen wealthy venturesome I noblemen and find gentlemen headed by Price Rupert who In were grant ed a Royal Hoal Charter by Charles 11 of England to exclusive right to trade inthe in inthe inthe the Hudson Bay Day Countr Country of Canada and import furs and skins into Great Britain Their charter to trade in furs was I highly regarded ed because it was a virtual monopoly on the fur trade in I Canada and to follow the history of this great company's operations and other great company's that were formed to take the prize furs from from the new world is a long and most interesting story j Mr 11 Farnsworth stated that as mo morn moia companies were organized and more trading posts were built and more m moie lc trappers were engaged it became an evident fact that the wild fur bear ing animals were becoming scarcer l and nd scarcer each year and that some I plan must be adopted for conservation conserva conserva- tion Lion of the wild fur bearing animals I when the they or the time would come would be practically exterminated I As early as 1872 the Hudson Da Bay Company offered a big reward for tor torI I Silver Foxes alive and for several I years made futile attempts to domesticate domesticate domesticate domes domes- them but their efforts proved unsuccessful and it was not until I many years later that other men tried to breed and raise Silver Foxes in I captivity but it was not until 1892 some twenty years later that Charles CharlesI I Dalton a trapper and breeder began his experiments of ot producing the Silver Silver Sil Sil- I ver Black Fox Dalton had a native I knowledge of wild animals and a anat ana ana- na- na t affection for them I He lie e had patience and perserver- perserver ance and he finally succeeded At the same time that Sir Charles Charl s Dalton was experimenting George L. L Morrison a fur trader in Fairbanks Fairbanks Fair Fair- banks Alaska was carrying on experiments experiments experiments ex ex- ex- ex with Silver Foxes A number of years later Mr Mil ligan a trapper and breeder of Prince Edward Island made a long trip from the coast of Canada for up into Alaska to get some liver Silver Foxes for breeding Upon hearing that a Mr Morrison had a few Silver Foxes in captivity he snow shoed several hundred miles into the interior inter for to Mr Morrisons Morrison's trading post and after spending several days das there therea a partnership was formed between these two men which today has a most enviable reputation Today Milligan Morrison have havethe havethe havethe the largest chain of oI associated Silver Fox Farms in the world In our InterMountain InterMountain InterMountain In In- ter-Mountain ter section they have established established around seventy farms and I their plans and operations together with their quality and strain of Silver Silver Sil ver Foxes assures the purchaser of ot success in this new enterprise Mr 1 Farnsworth was instrumental in bringing the first Silver Foxes into Utah and has been actively engaged in establishing these associated ranches He with his assistant Mr Stewart have opened temporary of of- at the El EI Escalante Hotel and will explain in detail this new and most pi profitable of it able of all stock raising If you OU desire an additional income one open to both men and women these facts merit your our sincere atten atten- tion The Rocky Mountain 1 regions of the West are unsurpassed for raising Silver Foxes You may engage Inthis in inthis inthis this fascinating industry without in ng with your present business activities Success is certain with these first class Foxes and the per aid service by an experienced The Club met at the home of Mrs 1 Wilson Lunt Thursday afternoon Evelyn Eveln Webster read i stories by OHenry Bell Dell Webster gave a accompanied by Mrs Lunt Delicious refreshments were served ser bv by the host hostess ss Chas Chaa Pett Petty of ot the Arrowhead Garrage Gar Garr age announces that next week he will have on display one of the new J Ford ord ton and half trucks He lIe extends extend an al Invitation to everybody to come to the sales room and give the machine the once over |