ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1921. 



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DISPOSITION OF ALL SKINS. 



As in the published report for the preceding calendar year, a state- 

 ment of the number of fur-seal skins handled during the year and the 

 number on hand, both at the Pribilof Islands and at St. Louis, at the 

 end of the calendar year 1921 is given in the tables below. The 

 grand total of skins on hand December 31, 1921, was 53,877. 



PRIBILOF RECORD. 



A brief record of all fur-seal skins handled on the Pribilof Islands 

 during 1921, showing the balance on hand December 31, is given in 

 the following table: 



Disposition of all fur-seal shins handled on Pribilof Islands, calendar year 1921. 



ST. LOUIS RECORD, POUKE PUR CO. 



In the preceding annual report there was published a summary 

 showing shipments of skins, sales, and balances remaining in the 

 hands of the department's selling agents, Funsten Bros. & Co., St. 

 Louis, Mo. Early in the year 1921 the contract with Funsten Bros. 

 & Co. was canceled and a new one entered into with the Fouke Fur 

 Co. The 57,612 fur-seal skins then in the possession of Funsten Bros. 

 & Co. were delivered to the Fouke Fur Co. The following table 

 shows receipts and sales of skins by the firm during the calendar 

 year 1921: 



Summary of receipts and sales of Pribilof fur-seal shins by Fouke Fur Co., St. Louis, Mo., 

 and balance in firm'' s custody, calendar year 1921. 



Seven of these skins were held at the Washington office for exhibition purposes. 



