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125 since ihe census of 1932 was taken, but exclusive of 11 killed for 

 food during the year. The condition of the herd was regarded as 

 good. 



St. George Island. — The reindeer herd on St. George Island on 

 September 30, 1933, contained 63 animals, of which 8 were the young 

 of the season. None was used for food during the year. 



FUR-SEAL SKINS 

 SHIPMENTS 



On August 20, 1933, the U.S.S. Yega delivered at Seattle, Wash., 

 the season's entire take of sealskins, aggregating 54,550 pelts, of 

 which 46,367 were consigned to the Fouke Fur Co. at St. Louis, 

 Mo., and 8,183, or 15 percent of the take, to a representative of the 

 Government of the Dominion of Canada at Seattle in accordance 

 with the provisions of the treaty of July 7, 1911. 



Two public auctions of fur-seal skins from the Pribilof Islands 

 were held at St, Louis in 1933 — on May 15 and August 28, respec- 

 tively — the combined total amounting to 50,097 skins. In addition, 

 490 sealskins taken on the Pribilof Islands were disposed of at special 

 sales. With the following detailed statements of these sales, the 

 sales of other fur-seal skins by the Department of Commerce for the. 

 account of the Government are included in order that the records 

 may be complete. 



Public auction sale., Man/ 15^ 1933. — At this sale 25,621 Pribilof 

 Islands fur-seal sldns, dressed, dyed, and machined, were sold for 

 $394,303,80, One confiscated skin, d^^ed logwood brown, was sold 

 for $23, In addition, 512 Japanese fur-seal skins, Avhich were the 

 share of the United States Government from the Robben Island 

 killings in 1930, 1931, and 1932, were sold for a total of $1,755.75. 

 Of these skins, 282 were dressed, dyed, and machined, dyed black, 

 1 was unhaired and dressed, and 229 were raw salted. 



Puhlic auction sale., August 28., 1933. — The Government disposed 

 of 24,476 fur-seal skins at this sale, of which 24,239 were dressed, 

 dyed, and machined and sold for $469,702.25, The remaining 237 

 skins were sold in the raw salted condition for $59,25, 



Special sales. — Several special sales of small lots of sealskins were 

 authorized in 1933, in accordance with which 337 black-dyed finished 

 skins were sold for $6,759.16, and 137 brown-dyed finished skins were 

 sold for $2,462,06, Two raw salted skins were sold for $6,70 and 14 

 specially prepared skins for exhibition purposes were sold for $350. 

 The gross return from the sale of these 490 skins was $9,577,92, 



The classification and selling price of all sealskins sold in 1933 for 

 the account of the Government are shown in the following tables: 



