THE GAME BREEDER 



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REPORTS ABOUT RADFORD 



A clipping from a New York paper, sent 

 to tile editor, contains the follbwing 

 about Harry Radford, who will have 

 some interesting stories for our readers 

 if he returns safely : 



"Deserted at night by his two Indian 

 guides, Harry Vincent Radford, a young 

 Arctic explorer, who left New York 

 February 12, 1909, to hunt for a living 

 specimen of the wood bison, is thought 

 to be lost in the frozen wilderness north 

 of Great Slave Lake. 



"Since Mr. Radford reached the North- 

 ern wilderness he has been seen only 

 once by white men. That was in 1910, 

 when he went south to Fort Smith, the 

 head of navigation on the Great Slave 

 River, and wintered there. He started 

 back north the following spring, and 

 nothing was heard from him until the 

 two Indians whom he had engaged as 

 guides returned to Fort Resolution, a 

 few weeks ago, stating that they had 

 deserted their employer because of a 

 disagreement. 



"The Indians said that they left in the 

 night and that Mr. Radford did not 

 know that they intended leaving.. When 

 asked where he was they answered 

 'many, many days to the north.' 



"Captain B. S. Osbon, of No. 132 

 East Twenty-third street, received a let- 

 ter from the Canadian Indian agent at 

 Fort Smith telling of the desertion by 

 the guides and requesting that any one 

 interested in Mr. Radford be notified. 

 Captain Osbon, who has made many 

 trips into the polar regions, said yester- 

 day that he feared greatly for the life 

 of the young explorer as it was his 

 first trip into the Arctic zone. Captain 

 Osbon said that as Mr. Radford knew 

 very little about the country he would 

 stand a slight chance of reaching safety. 

 "Members of the Arctic Club of this 

 city last spring sent two tons of supplies 

 to j\Ir. Radford, which were left at a 

 place agreed upon, but whether the sup- 

 plies ever reached him is uncertain. No 

 communication has been received since 

 the request for supplies and no traders 



or other explorers have heard or seen 

 any traces of the young man." 



Another clipping contains the follow- 

 ing dispatch from Ottawa, Canada: 



"Ottawa, March 10. — It is considered, 

 probable that the report that Harry V. 

 Radford, member of the Arctic Club, 

 had been deserted in North Canada by 

 his Indian guides and was supposed to- 

 be in dire straits is incorrect. 



"T. G. Street of this city is a com- 

 panion of Radford, and a letter received 

 from him some time ago said that it 

 had been arranged for the two Indian 

 guides accompanying them to turn back 

 after the first stage of the journey and 

 for him and Radford then to go alone 

 from Resolution to Chesterfield Inlet. 



The mounted police have heard noth- 

 ing of the party being in trouble and 

 are inclined to doubt the truth ©f the 

 report. Street is experienced in explora- 

 tion work in North Canada." 



We predict a big business in ducks 

 and pheasants this year since the "more 

 game" fight resulted in opening the 

 New York markets for these birds, both 

 dead and alive. The best dealers are 

 represented on our advertising pages and 

 we would strongly advise the state game 

 officers as well as individual and syndi- 

 cate preserve owners to deal with them. 

 Most of them are members of the Game 

 Guild which will have peculiar facilities- 

 of keeping in touch with the small breed- 

 ers as well as the big ones throughout 

 the United States and Canada. 



A small breeder who rears only fifty 

 or a hundred pheasants and a few ducks- 

 has secured a Hst of over one hundred 

 dealers in live game which he sends us in 

 a letter saying they all should read "The 

 Game Breeder." This number will be 

 sent to all of them and we feel sure they 

 will think it is the kind of magazine they 

 want. We hope many of them will send 

 notes stating what they are doing. 



