Millard County Chronicle | 1913-05-08 | Page 1 | Finely Bred Arctic Horses

! FINELY BRED ARCTIC HORSES i Espsrlmsnt In Yukon May Man tke Development ef a Nw and lev eortant Industry. A firm of miners haa been making an experiment In the Tukon territory. In latitude about 63 degree, which, if uccessful. promise to develop late an extensive and Important Industry In raising horse. A pasture I maintained on the Duke liver, where there I an abundance abund-ance of fine pasture landa. and horse can live there all winter without being even stalled or fed other than by what they can themselves rustle. Last summer 23 brood mares were Imported from Vancouver, and all of them wintered fine. A number of mare were brought from Oregon, which foaled last spring, and all the coll lived and are making more hardy animal than their predecessor. Colls foaled farther north have grown Into tbe hardiest of horses, having become be-come protected from tbe cold by the growth of a longer bair, similar to that of the buffalo.