Fox Pens01

Waupaca Republican Post

September 24, 1925

MAKING FOX PENS

FULLER GOODMAN CO. OF THIS CITY DEVELOPS NEW BUSINESS

MAKE OVER 100 YEARLY

Local Company New Working on Large Order

Description of the Pen

Pens Go to Alaska, Norway, Hawaiian Islands, Canada, England

A growing industry in Waupaca, that the public knows very little about, is the manufacture of patented fox pens. The fox pen that is made in this city is the Redi-Made Runway Fox Pen, and it is being manufactured by the Fuller Goodman Company for the Hall Manufacturing and Cold Storage Company of Summerside, P.E. Island, Canada.

A little over two years ago the local lumber company entered into contract for the manufacture of the pens, and the first year did not make a great many. The second year over a hundred were made, and at the present time the company has a crew of men working on an order for 156 pens.

As rapidly as completed these pens will be shipped to buyers, six of the pens going to Alaska, several to Norway, the Hawaiian Island, Canada, and other foreign countries, as well as to nearly every state in the union.

The pens retail at from $85 to $120, and Mr. John McCall, the local manager of the Fuller Goodman co., states that he receives inquire from buyers daily, the inquiries coming from all over the United States, England, Canada, and many other countries.

The Standard Redi-Made Runway Fox Pen made in Waupaca, consists of two cages, 8 feet square by 6 feet high, entirely enclosed by wire netting and connected by several sectional runways, 2 feet wide by 3 feet high by 8 feet long of similar construction. On account of the design anyone, if they desire, can have cages 8 feet x 16 feet, instead of 8 feet x 8 feet, with or without any number of runway sections. Some ranchers have used one cage 8 ft. x 8 ft. for the secluded breeding pen, then two runway sections and a cage 8 ft. x 15 ft. for feeding. This makes a pen 40 ft. over all with a large roomy feeding cage and maintains the seclusion of the breeding pen.

The breeding of foxes and other fur bearing animals, is a rapidly growing industry, and Mr. McCall says that pen manufacturing business is developing far beyond expectations.

The contract for the manufacture of the pens came to Waupaca through an inquiry made to the Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Fuller of Oshkosh, of the Fuller Goodman Co., took the matter up, with the result that the Fuller Good man Company were given the contract.