Rod and gun . -in quality. An inferior pelt will bringfive hundred dollars or even as low asone hundred dollars, but the more su-perior quality will bring as high as twen-ty-five hundred dollars, or more. APrince Edward Island pelt was sold re-cently on the London market for fivehundred and forty pounds sterling, andthe same pelt was sold later in Viennafor five hundred and ninety pounds ster-ling—which goes to show that the Lon-don prices do not represent any inflaed. Mr. F. F. Tuplins Fox Ranch and his Son. FOX FARMS IX PRIXCE EDWARD COUXTY 1045 values. For a number of pelts recentlyput on t
Rod and gun . -in quality. An inferior pelt will bringfive hundred dollars or even as low asone hundred dollars, but the more su-perior quality will bring as high as twen-ty-five hundred dollars, or more. APrince Edward Island pelt was sold re-cently on the London market for fivehundred and forty pounds sterling, andthe same pelt was sold later in Viennafor five hundred and ninety pounds ster-ling—which goes to show that the Lon-don prices do not represent any inflaed. Mr. F. F. Tuplins Fox Ranch and his Son. FOX FARMS IX PRIXCE EDWARD COUXTY 1045 values. For a number of pelts recentlyput on the Russian market the averageprice was five hundred pounds or onethousand dollars. It goes without say-ing that quality is the important thing infurs, and one must make a study of thematter in order to make even an approxi-mate valuation. Only a connoisseur isable to note the color, thickness or otherfine points that make a valuable pelt—the novice is often deceived. The pioneer in the business of ranch-ing on Prince Edward Island was Dalton, and he was first heard ofin the business about fifteen years of the earliest ranches was ownedby Messrs. Dalton and Oulton near Tig-nish. In the early days the fact was notpublished—indeed no one outside of asmall and select circle knew anything ofthe existence of the ranch or the possi-bilities that lay ahead of the a consequence of Air. Daltons inter-est in his dark colored friends he i
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