ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1930 



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Summary of all Government-owned fur-seal skins under control of Department of 

 Commerce, calendar year 1930 



' 10 skins under this category were used by the U. S. Bureau of Standards in making a study of their 

 physical propeities. Two skins were ured for replacing mounted skins borrowed by the Government for 

 the Leipzig Exhibit and damaged in course of transportation. 



2 Includes 2 skins unaccounted for at close of 1929, but which were subsequently found when shipment 

 was unpacked at St. Louis. 



SHIPMENT AND SALE OF FOX SKINS 



The 193 blue and 31 white fox skins taken on St. Paul Island in 

 the season of 1929-30, and the 552 blue and 1 w^hite fox skins taken 

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

 Penguin for shipment and on May 31 reached Seattle, whence they 

 were forwarded bj^ express to the bureau's selling agents at St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



Of these skins, 375 blues and 32 whites were sold at public auction 

 at St. Louis on September 15, 1930. The blue pelts brought $12,- 

 149.50, an average price of $32.40 per skin; and the white pelts 

 brought $992, an average of $31 per skin. The maximum price 

 per skin was $150, obtained for a blue pelt sold singly. Further 

 details are given in the following tables : 



