Alfred Dickson Alfred Dickson started raising mink in 1920 with just seven animals.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 23 December 1927.)) The Whitehorse newspaper announced that Alfred Dickson started a new industry for the Yukon when he established the Tagish Fur Ranch at Tagish in the fall of 1924. Dickson had a few foxes, but his speciality was raising mink.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 December 1924.)) In October 1925, Dickson shipped sixty-five live mink to a new mink ranch starting up near Juneau and the Mendenhall Glacier.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 2 October 1925.)) In December 1924, Alfred Dickson sold his successful mink farm to J. G. Williams and Eugene Brisson, of Petersburgh, Alaska.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 23 December 1927.)) In April 1929, Dickson bought a new Chevrolet light truck and was busy freighting over the ice from Carcross to his Tagish ranch.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 19 April 1929.))