ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1931 



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Stimniaii/ of all Government-owned fur-seal skins under control of Department of 

 Commerce, calendar year 1931 



' When skins taken in the commercial season in 1931 were packed for shipment the count was 6 less than 

 the number taken. It is believed that a miscount was made in packing the skins and that the error wiU be 

 rectified when the skins are unpacked at St. Louis. 



Summary of Government-owned fur-seal sMns in the custody of Fouke Fur Co., at 

 St. Louis, Mo., calendar year 1931 



• Returned from Washington. 



2 Sold. 



' 30,262 sold; 1 shipped to Washington for exhibition purposes. 



SHIPMENT AND SALE OF FOX SKINS 



The 211 blue and 24 white fox skins taken on St. Paul Island in the 

 season of 1930-31 and the 678 blue and 2 wliite fox skins taken on St. 

 George Island in the same season were shipped from the islands on the 

 Penguin in May, arriving at Seattle on May 13, whence they were 

 forwarded by express to the department's selling agents at St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



At the public auction sale in St. Louis on March 30, 1931, there were 

 sold 370 blue fox skins that remained from the take on the Pribilof 

 Islands in the 1929-30 season. These skins sold for $14,593.50, an 

 average of $39.44 per skin. The maximum price per skin was $120, 

 obtained for a pelt sold singly. 



On October 19, 1931, there were sold at public auction at St. Louis 

 445 blue and 26 wliite fox skins taken on the Pribilof Islands in the 

 1930-31 season. The blue pelts brought $11,015, an average of 

 $24.75 per skin; and the white pelts brought $466, an average of 



