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...Aklavik in the icy Arctic came Fur Trader Stan Peffer (also a hotel owner, grocer, theater operator, sawmill proprietor). In Edmonton on his annual business trip south last week he told a tale that sounded prehistoric...
Explanation: nothing is rationed in Aklavik (the population of 757 would not justify the trouble) and Aklavikans get priorities because of their isolation and the importance of the Arctic fur trade...
...fur industry, now booming as seldom before, the prime significance of the auction was its evidence that the use of genetics to produce mink mutations had opened up a new and fantastically profitable line of business...
Back to Mendel. One of the men who blazed the new fur trail is the short, chunky president of the two-year-old Silverblu Platinum Mink Breeders Association, Larry Moore. Still in his 30s, Larry Moore has been breeding mink for 18 years. He used it to pay his way through an engineering course at Iowa State College at Ames. Soon he became more inter sted in mink than in engineering, switched to an animal husbandry course. Then he gave up college altogether: tak ing care of his mink left him little time for study. Having located an ideal...
Forward to Profits. But silverblus are just a start. Already mink ranchers have developed six more varieties, ranging from pure white to black & white, and lilac. Fur men are already quipping: "Have a mink to match your hair." The prospect of a good market for the new furs is bright. Prices plummeted after Pearl Harbor, but early last year luxury buying began sending them up again. Now they are bumping against OPA ceilings. Thus, with dark mink pelts selling up to $35, 50-60% higher than a year ago, platinum fox at $270, all other furs up from...