Northwest History. Alaska. Forest Fires.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1918
• Subjects: fox; Glaude Green; Petersburg; Alaska; Tongass National forest; District Forester; George H. Cecil; Forest Supervisor; W. W. Weigle; Ketchikan; Hercules Fox Farm; Alaskan coast; Aleutian archipelago; London; Sukoi islands; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Hercules; Pacific; Archipelago
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91729

Fox Farm On Tongass National Forest. FOX FARM ON TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST Beginning operations two years ago with eight pairs of blue foxes and two pairs of black foxes, Claude Green, of Petersburg, Alaska, now has between 250 and 275 blue, and seventeen black foxes on his fox farm on the Tongassl National forest, according to a report, received by District. Forester George H. Cecil from Forest Supervisor W. W. Weigle, Ketchikan, Alaska. The farm is located on one of the Sukoi islands, which is occupied for the purpose under a special-use permit. The farm has recently been incorporated under the name of the Hercules Fox Farm. A number of buildings have been erected on the island for various uses in connection with the rearing of foxes. Fish make up the chief item of food for the animals. Peed houses have been placed at various points and a fish house holding 16,000 dry fish has been constructed. There are a number of fox farms along the Alaskan coast and on the. Aleutian archipelago. Black-fox skins are very valuable, ranging in price from six hundred dollars to one thousand dollars for prime skins. In 1900 a black-fox skin sold at auction in London for $2,754.00. Blue-fox skins range in value from twenty-five dollars to fifty dollars.