Here you will see a sleigh robe about one hundred and fifty years old, made up of fifteen matched pelts varying in color from yellow to chestnut, so far no person has been able to name the animal these skins came from. A expert says the animal is now extinct. Come and see if you can name it. Any person wishing to take a trip back into history will be well rewarded by visiting this interesting place and seeing the things of yester years. Mr. Dunning is a retired merchant and veteran of two World Wars, he has been a judge in the Rural Beautification Contest for twenty years. Boats are kept for visitors and fishermen. SILVER FOX FARMING For a long time there had been reports of the odd black and silver fox pelt bringing a high price but few people had ever seen one. Some men at the Western end of the Island were fortunate enough to dig out fox dens and got several beauties and started breed¬ ing them and got tremedous prices for their pelts in London, by 1910 silver fox farming was a commercial success and breeding stocks was worth many thousands. Joint stock companies were organized and shares sold, some paid unheard of dividends, after the first World War private ranches sprang up all over the Island, by 1930 there were over twenty fox ranches in Long River . The long River Land and Silver Fox Co . was organized in 1912, authorized capital $4,500.00, in $10.00 shares, they were fortunate in securing two pair high quality good breeding stock, the following year they had two litters, increased their stock and paid over 200% dividends. D. M. Johnstone Pres ., John R. Wigmore Treas. and George Cousins rancher. They sold two pelts for $800.00 each. In 1915 The Fox Co . was organized, Oscar Johns ¬ tone was the rancher, a large number of shareholders were Islanders in Alberta, this companies foxes were exhibited at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto and won prizes in 1923 and 1924, another ranch in Long River showed the champion pup at the Fox Show in Charlottetown for two consecutive years. Before 1950 fox pelts became so common, their value didn't pay to raise them. 54