114 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1948. 
FUR-SEAL SKINS ON HAND DECEMBER 31, 1918. 
The 1917 report of Alaska Fisheries and Fur Industries, page 95, 
gives the number of fur-seal skins on hand in the States on December 
31, 1917, as 9,600. Of these, 12 skins were in storage in Washington, 
D. C., thus making the apparent number on hand at St. Louis, 
9,588. There was, however, a discrepancy of 2 skins in the shipment 
from St. George Island in 1914, which should be deducted from the 
latter number, thus leaving a total of 9,586 on hand at St. Louis as 
of December 31,1918. Slight discrepancies sometimes occur between 
the count on the islands and the final count at St. Louis. The 
following table shows the receipt of shipments and the sales of skins 
by Funsten Bros. & Co. during the calendar year 1918: 
Fur-SEAu Sxins at St. Louis 1n 1918. 




On‘hand,'St? Lewis; Janda, VOUS x2 4 er 2 8 ee se 2 Es Mo Csstsiekes 9, 586 
Shipments received in 1918: 
EQUI Cae ae eA joes Fa5 Jeol y pS so goes ee 5 a6 4, 258 
Tuly ose cab ase cee se eng Wee eee on te eee 3, 542 
Octoberses 224s dalic a ob eae n as ibs 3 eee oe eee 17, 81 
Novyembern c= fra erator oe tae oie eae ee Peep ae ee ee 1, 978 27, 594 
i fs) i) A MED Te al Meee Ge) es BO 37, 180 
Sales during 1918: 
TUL. fo este ante k ee sdee aes fede -b aad oho creee emeke 6, 100 
October 72.22 bse see ky Oe S8 | GLEe be Oe LOE 2528 eee 2, 000 8, 100 
Balance onthand Dec. dit VOlSs 6 sae ees cee ccd cee iets = oa Sa 29, 080 
The above number remaining on hand is the same as reported by 
Funsten Bros.-& Co. under date of January 8, 1919. There were, 
in addition to the above, 7,483 skins en route from the Pribilof 
Islands at the end of the year. They reached St. Louis January 
29, 1919. 
SALE OF FOX SKINS. 
The take of fox skins during the season of 1917-18 was given on 
pages 88-89 of the 1917 Alaska report as 90 blue and 14 white for St. 
Paul Island, and 602 blue and 5 white for St. George Island. These 
skins were shipped from the Islands on the Roosevelt June 22, and 
were sold in St. Louis at public auction on October 7, 1918. The 
692 blue foxes brought $57,099.50, an average of $82.51 each. 
This was an advance of 35 per cent over the prices received for the 
1916-17 skins at the sale in October, 1917. The 19 white-fox skins 
brought $1,080, or $48 to $60 each. 
