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cottages for white employees, and a stock fence to keep out animals 
was built around the upper lake which is the source of the village water 
supply. A small building was constructed to house the tractor hoist 
at the village landing. 
Bypropucts PLANT 
The byproducts plant on St. Paul Island was in operation from 
June 19 to July 27, rendering oil and meal from seal carcasses and blub- 
ber. The direct cost of operation during the season was $10,316.60. 
The total production amounted to 514 barrels, or 28,020.23 gallons, 
of fur-seal blubber oil, 4,789 gallons of oil from seal carcasses, and 
502,914 pounds of seal meal. As a result of processing the blubber 
and carcasses separately this season, the bulk of the oil produced was 
of a very high grade. 
The entire production of oil from carcasses and one barrel of blubber 
oil were retained at the Islands for use in fox feed and for other pur- 
poses. The remainder of the blubber oil, amounting to 27,965.73 
gallons, was shipped to Seattle on the Penguin and sold by competitive 
bidding for 31% cents per gallon, or a total of $8,704.33. 
The U.S. 8S. Capella brought 489,174 pounds of seal meal to Seattle 
in August. About 75 tons of this meal was delivered to the Division 
of Fish Culture for use in Federal fish hatcheries, and the remainder 
was sold through competitive bidding. In all, 338,421 pounds of 
meal were sold for a gross sum of $6,863.10. ‘About 5 tons were sold 
at $50 per ton to the Division of Fish and Game of the State of 
Montana, and about 164 tons were sold at $40.25 to Wilbur-Ellis 
Co., Seattle. This is the first time since 1921 that any of the seal 
meal produced at the Pribilof Islands has been sold for the account 
of the Government. Thirteen thousand pounds of meal were retained 
at the Islands for use in fox feed and 740 pounds were transferred for 
use of natives along the coast of northwest Alaska. 
The total sales of seal oil and meal in 1939 aggregated $15,567.43. 
In addition, the Fouke Fur Co. paid $44.91 for the 25 barrels of blubber 
which it obtained from the Islands, in accordance with provisions of 
the 1939 contract, the value being based upon the value of the oil 
which might have been derived therefrom at the Bureau’s byproducts 
plant, less the estimated cost of its production. The total sales of all 
byproducts, therefore, amounted to $15,612.34. 
NATIVES 
CENSUS 
On December 31, 1939, the total native population of St. Paul Island 
was 274, including 8 persons who were temporarily absent from the 
Island. There were 10 births and 3 deaths during the year. Three 
natives, as follows, from the Alaska Peninsula became residents of 
St. Paul Island during the year: one, a 2-year-old boy, who was legally 
adopted into a native family; another, a girl-who had been listed 
among the permanent departures in 1938 and who returned to live 
on St. Paul Island; and the third, the wife of a St. Paul Island native 
married at Unalaska in October 1938. One native left the Island to 
become a permanent resident of St. George Island. 
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