ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1927 



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SHIPMENT AND SALE OF FOX SKINS 



The 118 blue and 27 white fox skins taken on St. Paul Island in 

 the season of 1926-27 and the 610 blue and 3 white fox skins taken 

 on St. George Island in the same season were placed aboard the 

 U. S. S. Vega for shipment in August. These 758 skins reached 

 Bremerton, Wash., on August 25 and were then forwarded by express 

 to St. Louis, Mo., to the bureau's selling agents. None of these 

 skins was sold in the calendar year 1927. 



There were sold at public auction at St. Louis on October 3, 1927, 

 the remaining 580 blue and 20 white pelts of the Pribilof Islands' 

 take of the season of 1925-26, 125 blue pelts of that season's take 

 having been sold October 11, 1926. The 580 blue pelts sold for 

 $32,128, an average of $55.39 per skin, the maximum price ob- 

 tained being $136 for a single skin. The 20 white pelts sold for 

 $948.50, an average of $47.43 per skin. At the last preceding public 

 auction sale of Pribilof Islands blue-fox skins (October 11,1926) the 

 average price obtained was $53.20. The last previous sale of Pribilof 

 Islands white-fox skins was on September 24, 1925, when the average 

 price was $37.14 per skin. Further details are given in the following 

 table: 



Sale of 580 blue mid 20 ivhite fox skins at St. Louis, Mo., October 3, 1927 



