50 ALASKA. 



regime, but it is now confiued principally- to the sea-otter trade ; 

 the Cook's Inlet and Katuiai trade is mostly engrossed by 

 trading-schooners plying between these places aud Paget 

 Sound ; the yield of this district uuder the Eiissian control 

 is given for twenty years, 184^^-1801, inclusive, as follows: 

 Sea-otters, 5,809 j beaver, 85,381 ; marten, 14,295 ; niiuks, 1,175 ; 

 musk-rats, 14,313; wolverines, 1,27G; marmots, 712; wolves, oS. 



In the Cook's Inlet distuict, the Mount Saint Eli as and 

 SiTKAN districts, there are no well-established trading-posts, 

 the business being conducted on shipboard everywhere, the 

 natives coming off to the trading-schooners in their canoes. 

 At the time of the Kussian occupation there was considerable 

 trading done at Sitka, but now it has fallen off entirely, the 

 natives of that place and vicinity going back into the inside 

 passages, where they can trade with Avhisky-schooners in per- 

 fect security, as affairs are now conducted in the Territory. 



A large variety of furs are brought in from the dense forests 

 and high mountains of this region — such as red, black, and sil- 

 ver foxes, brown and black bears, mink, marten, i)orcupines, 

 beaver, land and sea otter, fur seal, hair-seal, deer, rabbits, 

 squirrels, mountain-goats, ermines, aud the hoary marmot or 

 Avhistler. 



TnE OUNALASHKA DISTRICT: 



This embraces the whole of the Aleutian Archipelago, and is 

 given entirely to the sea-otters; there is nothing else in this 

 section fit for trade save a few red and black foxes, and in it 

 are established six stations, viz : Ounalasl-ciy the largest and 

 principal one, Akootan^ GhemovsJcic, Oomnalc, Atla^ and Attou, 

 ^Yhich are the homes of the sea-otter hunters, and where they 

 trade. 



The stations enumerated in the foregoing districts comprise 

 all that are established in the Alaskan Territory. 



THE VALUE or THE FUR-TRADE. 



With the exception of the Sitkan and Cook's Tnlet districts, 

 the gross value of the annual fur-i)roduction of Alaska can be 

 closely ascertained. I aijpend to this head several tables Irom 

 Russian authorities in reierenee to the subject, and call atten- 

 tion to the fact that for the last ninety years or more, up to the 

 present date, the [)ricesof the leading furs in our market to-day 

 are very much what they were then, with the exception of the 



