raw peltry in the world, and power to attract 

 discriminating purchasers from all over the 

 world. In the opinion of those best entitled 

 to make forecasts in an industry subject to the 

 most inconsequential vagaries, the national 

 Canadian fur auction is now permanently and 

 securely established and a foundation has been 

 laid sturdy enough to withstand the tempests to 

 which the industry is frequently subject. 



As at previous sales, the important status of 

 the Canadian auction was widely recognized by 

 both vendors and buyers. Furs for disposal 

 came in increasing volume from all countries 

 producing raw peltry, from all over the Canadian 

 Dominion, the United States, Russia, Siberia 

 and other countries. The September sale saw 

 the gathering at Montreal of the largest number 

 of fur buyers since the inception of the Canadian 

 market, itself sufficient indication of the growing 

 importance of the sales. Some three hundred 

 were present, seventy-five per cent being fiom 

 New York, others from Canadian centres, and 

 representatives of English, French, German, 

 Swedish, Russian and Japanese houses. 



This growing tendency of foreign buyers to 

 come to Canadian sales is the best indication of 

 their permanent character and firmness of 

 establishment. American and other foreign 

 buyers generally voice complete satisfaction at 

 the manner in which the Montreal sales are 

 conducted, their sound business methods and 

 satisfactory conduct throughout. Their opinion 

 is fairly unanimous that the past seven sales at 

 Montreal have laid the secure foundation of a 

 permanent national fur auction which will 

 progress without fear of successful assailment. 

 Whilst it is recognized that, in common with 

 many other Canadian enterprises, the Canadian 

 sales may lack the unlimited finances available 

 to similar concerns elsewhere and this results in 

 certain handicaps of a minor order, foreign 

 buyers point out that Canada possesses many 

 varieties of furs which are not procurable else- 

 where, and as long as she holds them within her 

 confines she can draw the world's buyers, who 

 will come wherever they can secure what they 

 want. These handicaps are not sufficient to 

 appreciably draw away from the flow of law 

 peltry to Montreal. Compared with the status 

 and operation of fur auctions elsewhere on the 

 continent, foreign purchasers of furs express the 

 most entire satisfaction with the Montreal sales. 



The tendency in the prices paid at the 

 September auctions was considerably higher 

 than at the previous May sales. This was due 

 largely to a smaller volume of offerings and 

 the general belief that there were no accumula- 

 tions of skins anywhere. The keen demand 

 for peltry at the present time is evident in the 

 fact that ninety per cent of the skins offered for 

 sale were disposed of. In the opinion of the 

 largest buyers the tendency to rise will exist for 

 some time, at least until the next winter's catch 

 comes in. 



Regarding the winter's catch, it is too early 

 in the season to make any predictions as to 

 volume or quality, which will not disclose them- 

 selves until the fall of the first snow and the 

 commencement of trapping operations. Irre- 

 spective of these two factors, however, it is 

 apparent from the foregoing that good figures 

 will be procurable for the winter's catch, and the 

 season will undoubtedly be a profitable one for 

 the trapper. 



Across Canada Moose Jaw 



About fifty years ago Lord Dunsmore, 

 travelling with his wife and child across the 

 vast plains of Western Canada, camped on the 

 bank of what is now known as "Thunder Creek" 

 and mended a broken wheel of his " Red River" 

 cart with the jawbone of a moose. The ingenuity 

 exhibited struck the imagination of the Indians, 

 who ever aftenvards referred to the spot as "the 

 place where the white man found the moose 

 jaw." The name clung when, years afterwards, 

 a tiny settlement located there and later when 

 it developed into a village, and the unique and 

 distinctive appellation has been retained by 

 the prosperous and rapidly expanding city which 

 now covers what was bald prairie such a com- 

 paratively short while ago. 



The reason of Moose Jaw is wheat. It is one 

 of the centres of the richest wheat-growing areas 

 of a province that produces more than fifty 

 per cent of the Dominion's total wheat crop. 

 The district produces seventy million bushels of 

 wheat annually, and yet its productive capacity 

 has scarcely been touched. From Moose Jaw 

 into all sections of this rich productive district 

 run life arteries of communication, and with the 

 development in view for this area from the 

 agricultural standpoint, the city has a promising 

 growth in sight. 



On Main Line of C. P. R. 



Moose Jaw is situated on the main line of 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway in Saskatchewan 

 about midway between the cities of Brandon 

 and Calgary. This company has seventy miles 

 of track in its yards there, and recently com- 

 pleted a new depot at a cost exceeding three- 

 quarters of a million dollars. In all eight 

 railroad lines radiate from the city. As a grain 

 centre the Dominion Government located there 

 its elevator with 3,500,000 bushels capacity, and 

 a tribute to the range country to which it is 

 tributary was paid by the provincial government, 

 which selected it as the site of extensive co- 

 operative stockyards. 



The city has a population of 25,000. Two 

 hundred acres have been laid out as parks, and 

 cleanliness and beauty are the distinctive features 



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