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We left La Paz for Cochaba be by airplane on August 27th, 954 at noon. Short1y.after leaving. we were looking down on the great La Paz valley which lies from fifteen hundred to two thousand feet be- low the level of the Altiplano. In many places the walls of the val- ley are precipitous; these give shelter to farms that border on the river. The climate is more moderate than on the Altiplano and a number of fruits including

. some citrus fruit trees were seen.

We climbed up and up until we were at over 18,000 ft. to cross the highest range of mountains. The steward offered everyone oxygen, but very few used it. A lady over two seats from me, who had refused it "Blacked out." the gentleman in the seat next to her, called the steward and they work- ed, using oxygen, for about 15 min- utes before she recovered enough to speak. r

The terrain below us for most of the way consisted of fairly sharp peaks. that had many erod- ed guliies down their sides. There were narrow valleys that seemed to be filled with stones and gravel. Occasionally we saw a small

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The following market report from The Black Fox Magazine and Modern Mink Breeder gives I very good size up of the pelt situation as it is at present . . . . The few mink auctions held in the United States and Canada during i.he past two months had little market significance. Offerings were light and of only fair quality at best. The total number of skins at any one auction were so small that any comparisons could not justly be made. Buy backs and late peltcrs predominated. As far as mink breeders are concerned the 1953-54 marketing season is over. Practically all of the quality pelts have been sold and there will be no more offered until the new mink come to market in December. The fact that there will be no carry- over into the new season should be a factor of strength for the 1954

pelts. . .

Recently retail stores have re- ported a material increase In fur sales. Mink continues to predom- inate. The reduction of the excise tax has been ii great stimulant to the consumer demand. Inventories are low in" most all retail stores and manufacturers anticipate a growing volume of business. Fewer full length mink coats have been sold. This has been more than off- set by the great increase in the de- mand for stoles scarfs. Jackets and copies. The excellent consumer ad- vertising of the three large market- ing associations is stressing these so-Called small furs. Mink con- iinucs to dominate fashions in furs. Women in business are now making more money than ever be- fore and these women are greatly interested in the prestige of mink and are financially able to buy it.

The more orderly marketing of mink, which was featured last sea- son, promises to continue . . The various auction companies have announced sales dates which do not conflict and give buyers suf- ficient time to inspect skins. These dates were arranged "by auction officials in co-operation with mar- keting groups during the summer. Foreign buying added great strength to the early sales this season. lturopean buyers came to American auctions and bid prices for choice pelts abpvo those made by the domestic trade. It is hoped that this foreign interest will continue during the coming year. The larg- est crop (1953) ever produced was aid darks. Litiio can be reported about foxes. There has been con- siderable favorable publicity for this long haired fur. Light a fer- ings of fresh pelts have sold. ere is still a backlog of old skins in storage and until these are dis- Posed of the fox market expected to be sluggish.

Back from a two months tour of Europe Adolph Nussenow. New York broker, reports a pick up in wholesale fur activity in France the past two weeks after a. slow September start. Preferences in France, he said, are running sim- ilii.r to those in the United States, with mink and perslan lamb lead- ins sales. He reports wholesale activity in Germany uiquite sat- Lsfactory but notices that Italy's business is on the dull side. swed- Pn. he observes, is the most ac- live of the Scandinavian coun- tries with persian lamb. muskrat Ind beaver dominating sales. Den- mark and Norway are lagging be- hind Bweden. Persian lamb and other curly goods are best sellers In Denmark.

Canadian Pu: Auction Sales Co. (Quebec) Ltd., will hold its next izeneral 'sale October 27. To be of- lcred are beaver. muakrat; otter and mink . . . .lfiidson's Bay Oom- pnnrs auction in Montreal dates have been set as follows: December

6 and Dec 1- :5, auction sales of ranobed 0: January lit, early cnliectiens wild mink, squirrel Incl ermine.

America mink ranchers are ex- hected to set a new record in pro- duction this yeiir, with the total number of standard ranch and mutation mink kits likely to reach 3.000.000. lhai-pest increases in Production are predicted for lap- nhlres and in be close substantial increase in Whites. Declines are expected in standard ranch mink and fun- "lel-Ib. and little change is ore-

scen in platinum production This I

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son. These are the figures reported by Mr. Sheldon in the September issue of the Black Fox Magazine and Modern Mink Breeder. Kit production in 1953 was 9.9 per cent above the 1952 crop. For the first time in the history of mink ranch- ing. Mr.'Sheldoa observes, a single type of mutation mink has out- numbered standard ranch mink production, and this trend will continue in 1954 Pastel promotion in 1953 increased over 44 per cent. reaching a figure of 849,470 kits. Some 134,363 were pelted. Stand- ard or dark ranch minkrproduction declined 22'; per cent to 750,869 kits and 743,326 polls.

The proportion of all mutations in the total crop was over 71 per cent in 1953 as compared with 61 per' cent of the total and pastels 32.5 per cent. Kit production of other mutations in order of quantity, was as follows in 1953: sapphires, 337.652. an increase of 81.9 per cent Platinum, 156,252, a decline under 1952, though there were more Breath of Spring types,

duction this year is expected to be fully as large as last. More muta- l28.066 in 1953. Gun-metal, 46.775

34.029. an increase of 69 per cent. In addition. there were 83,482 gun- metal carriers. 200,895 other car- riers. and 24,987 miscellaneous mu- tationa.

Mr. Sheldon notes that the mutation crop represented over 82 per cent of the total pelt value of the 1953 kit crop. The average price of all classes of ranch mink pelts for the calendar yeirr-'-1953 was only 31.21 more than for the average of the same classes for 1952. However. because of there being a larger percentage of mu- tations in the 1953 crop, and be- cause there were almost a quarter of a million more total pelts in 1953. the pelt value of the 1953 crop figures 314,033,485 more than in 1952, or better. than 25 per cent more money. -

Libel Suit Against

. Chambers Dismissed

NEW YORK iAP) - A million dollar libel suit against Whittaker Chambers was dismissed Tuesday in state Supreme Court.

Willy Pogany. artist and sculp- tor, had claimed Chambers falsely and maliciously wrote in his book, "Witness," that the artist was a brother of a Hungarian named Joseph Pogany and that Joseph

ber of the Communist international.

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Police Seeking Three-Man Gang

TORONTO, (CP)- A three-man gang from Windsor, Ont., said to be armed with machine guns and driving two fast cars, was sought across southern Ontario today. pro- vincial police said.

Police said law officers learned of plans to iioid up a bank. The gang was reported to be in the Hamilton area.

Information on the gang was obtained in Windsor and passed to provincial police by the RCMP.

Provincial police in many cen- tres nsked bank staffs to be on the alert and to call in an alarm if they became, suspicious of any- one outside the building.

Police were warned to be ready to use their guns. The members of the gang were reported to be hardened criminals with long rec- on s.

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stream winding through the gravel and many patches of alkali where water had evaporated. The snow capped Andes Mountains could be seen in the distance. For miles and miles we did not see any path or road nor any trace of a living thing, not even shrubs or grass. The trip was quite rough at times, but the day was fine and we could see great distances.

At Cochabamba there were friends on ,hand to meet us. There was no immigration or customs to bother about, as our travel was within Bolivia. We did, however, report to the police, which is rou- tine in South America. We arrived in time for afternoon tea at the Cochabamba Seminary, -as we became aceusto ” to the much lower altitude of about 8000 ft. We were entertained at a home with a lovely garden, that had citrus fruits, strawberry plants and flowers and there were hum- mingbirds in addition to many oth- er beautiful birds.

That evening there was a sand storm. and during the night, thun- der and heavy rain, which they said was very unusual, this was followed by cold weather, that is, very cold for Cochabamba. We had expected to go to Rotary Sat- urday evening but the Rotarians had changed their meeting to Tues- day. We went to the market in- stead; a new market building is being built, in the meantime the streets for blocks around were filled with people. The sidewalks completely taken up with merch- andise spread out all over the place. There were fruits and vege- tables. spread out on cloth: or piled in heaps in front of the we- men, who care doing most of the selling. These Quechua women were wearing their characteristic bright coloured dresses, said to con- sist of six or more skirts, large shawls of many colours and wide- rimmed. stiff, high crowned white hats, with two perpendicular black lines on the right side.

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knit garments. A number had boots and shoes for sale. and there were great piles of sandals, made from old rubber car tires; these had holes made in them for thongs and strings to fasten them to the feet. There were those who had second hand parts from all kinds of machines, old straps, pieces of wire, everything from crsnkshafts to buttons. A lot of it just looked like scrap iron, but we were told that when one fail- ed to get extras anywhere else you could usually get what you were looking for in the market.

On Sunday we drove out over the Trans-American Highway to Quillacolla; this is a stony gravel road, very rough with washboard. that is only scraped they said, af- ter each rainy season. The truck with double tires in the rear. and 75 pounds of air pressure, made riding very rough. We stopped and visited the school, that is attend- ed by the children of the mis- sionaries that are in Bolivia. There will be about 20 pupils this year. The equipment, L 1'” gs and teachers are good, we knew sev- eral of the children. that are now there, and trust that they have a good year.

Al: Quiilacolia. there was the usual Sunday market in the cen- ter of the town. We visited the site of the church that is to be built there. and the pastor's house now under construction. The adobe walls were up and the roof on and good progress was being made with the building. We were back in Cochabamba by sun down and the road back did not seem quite so long as in going out. '

On Monday we visited the larger well kept high school which has 700 students, a nice campus, a swimming p 01 and an athletic field. The Superintendent and his assistant showed us-many of the class room, library and assembly hall. The buildings are shaded with beautiful,. large eucalyptus trees. They are built with expan- sion joints. somewhat like those used in bridges. but they are to take care of the effect of earth- quakes we were told. I

Tuesday we heard an address at Rotary on blood types, by a Cocha- bamba doctor who spoke in Span- ish, which was interpreted for me by a friend. A number of 'Ro- tarians present spoke. English. There was a fine friendly feeling and the President .would like to have a Rotary flag from Charlotte- town, to add to the collection of flags from many parts of the world, that pretty well covered one wall of he dining hall.

We drove out 6 miles on a paved section of the Pan-American High- way to the Cochabamba Experi- mental Station and arrived just at milking time. They have a fine herd of Holstein cows, and were using a milking machine in an open shed. They have a good type herd bull, that weighs more than a ton. and a younger one that is almost as large. We were shown their recent importation of Brown Swiss cattle, that came from a number of herds in Switzerland. The herdsman said that they were more active than the Holstein: and is crossing the very stony "dry wash" to their pasture field, they

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- We were back at the Experi- ental Farm Thursday morning, and spent some time looking over eir poultry plant and their grass and clover plots. Their poultry stock had been imported from the United States as day old chicks, by air, and they were having some losses. They had tried a number of United States, incubators but found them unsatisfactory due to the altitude. They were having better success with the Bolivian incubators they were using. They had only just moved their hens into the new poultry building. The New Hampshire Reds and White Leghorns were laying well but the fertility wassnot satisfactory. They expect better success. when they have had more experience.

The Alfalfa and Sweet clover plots under irrigation, had made strong growth. Alfalfa is in- digenous under favorable condi- tions in Bolivia. Their lawns of white Dutch and Ladino clover under irrigation looked splendid. The Director, however, said that under their conditions the Ladino did not bloom or produce seed. There was an Apiary of about 10 colonies of bees nearby which did -not help the Ladino because there was no bloom.

We drove from there out the paved highway, to Punata, about 30 miles from Cochabamba, and had picnic lunch under the shade of the eucalyptus tree along side of the football field, (we shoifid state that was the only time we sought shade from the sun while in Bolivia.)

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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND PDTATD. MARKETING BOARD

FINANDIAL STATEMENTS -MAY 31st, 1954-

Box 241 Charlottetown, P. I. 1. June 11th, 1954.

The Chairman and Members Prince Edward Island Potato Marketing Board Charlottetown. P. E. I. .

Gentlemen:

In accordance with your instructions, we have completed an lu- amination of the records of the Prince Edward Island Potato Marketing Board for the year ended May 31st, 1954. Attached hereto are is Bai- snce Sheet as at that date and a Statement of Income and Expenses for the year.

The records of your Selling Agency are kept scparaie from ihl general records of the Board. and therefore its financial operations are not included in this report.

The Statement of Income and Expenses shows a surplus for the year of 313,233.23. The amounts shown as Income from Licences are for 1953-54 licence fees received in cash. No estimate, has been made of licence fees unpaid, although the amount is not believed to be, sig- nificant. The deaiers' fees were based on the, estimated number of cars of potatoes they would ship, and the producers' fees on the esti- mated acreage. and there will be both upward and downward adjust- ments of these fees when the actual shipments and acreages are known.

As of May 31st, 1953, it was estimated that there was 513,772.00 out- standing in 1952-53 licence fees, this being computed from an estimate of the number of producers, dealers, truckers tind assemblers who op- erated that year without licences. 01 this amount 59,404.69 was col- lected in the year under review. The balance of 54,367.31, which is made, up to a considerable extent of downward adjustments in group classifications of dealers and producers, was written off against the accumulated Surplus of previous years.