6 ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 



points, sending copies of your letter to such importers, traders, manu- 

 facturers, and others as from their association with this trade and the 

 Territory of Alaslva were Hliely to have liuowledge of any of the facts 

 desired, and asldng for such information as they possessed to be for- 

 warded to the Treasury Department. 



The accompanying and inclosed replies to my request have been 

 received. 



Document A: Statement from I. Mora Moss, esq., president, and 

 Charles Baum, esq., secretary of the American Russian Commercial Com- 

 pany, having its office in this city and doing business in Alaska, with 

 Document A, No. 1, accompanying the same, being a copy of a bill intro- 

 duced in the House of Representatives March 29, 1869, by Hon. A. A. 

 Sargent to regulate the fur trade of Alaska. 



Document B : Statement from Messrs. Hutchinson, Kohl & Co., of 

 San Francisco, a firm largely engaged in the Alaska fur trade, with 

 statistics of furs collected at Sitka by the Russian- American Fur Com- 

 pany during the year 1866-67, and by Hutchinson, Kohl & Co. from 

 December, 1867, to October, 1869. 



Document C: Statement from Mr. Taylor, of the firm of Taylor & 

 Bendel, merchants, of San Francisco. This firm has traded for several 

 years past in Alaska, Mr. Taylor having just returned from that country. 



Document D: Statement from Mr. Adolph Miiller, trader in and 

 manufacturer of fars in San Francisco, with Document D, No. 1, sta- 

 tistics of fur trade, and Document D, No. 2, propositions concerning 

 Alaska seal fishery. 



Document E : Statement by Mr. E. S. Tibbey, of San Francisco, who 

 has sent several trading expeditions to Alaska. 



Document F: Statement of A. Honchareuko, editor and publisher 

 of the Alaska Herald at San Francisco. 



Document G: Letter of John F. Miller, esq., collector of the port of 

 San Francisco, Cal., transmitting Document G, No. 1, being an abstract 

 of imports and exports of furs at San Francisco since the cession of 

 Alaska to the United States, being a reply to a request from me for " a 

 statistical statement from the records of the custom-house of the num- 

 ber and invoice value of the fur seal, sea otter, and other skins the 

 product of Alaska shipped from the port of San Francisco to London 

 and other foreign ports since the cession of Alaska." 



Document H: Statement of R. Korwin Piotrowski, United States 

 storekeeper at San Francisco, lately an inspector of customs, and sent 

 to Alaska by the Government to protect the fur-seal fisheries, in regard 

 to Alaska fur trade, with Document H, No. 1, being a copy report of 

 R. Korwin Piotrowski to Collector Miller on Alaska. 



Document I: Copy of the report on Alaska of Joseph Wilson, in- 

 spector of customs, to Collector Miller, Mr. Wilson being sent to Alaska 

 by the Government to protect the fur-seal fisheries. 



Document K: Report on Alaska by E. C. Jordan, inspector of cus- 

 toms at San Francisco, sent to Alaska by the Government to protect 

 the fur-seal fisheries.^ 



While collecting the aforementioned statements from the different 

 parties making them I have had frequent opportunity to converse with 

 these and other persons here, who are more or less intelligent on the 

 subject of our Alaskan possessions and their fur-seal fisheries. 



The almost univiersal sentiment in regard to these fisheries is that 



'The inclosures ennmerated, with the exception of Documents C, H No. 1, I, and 

 K, are missing from tlie liles. 



