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PRIBILOF FUR-SEAL SKINS 

 SHIPMENTS OF COMMERCIAL SKINS 



On May 29, 1923, there were placed aboard the U. S. S. Gold 

 Star at St, Paul Island 22 barrels containing 1,028 fur-seal skins. 

 This shipment consisted of 624 skins taken in 1922 and 404 skins 

 taken in 1923. 



On May 31, 1923, there were placed aboard the Gold Star at St. 

 George Island 7 barrels containing 272 fur-seal skins, which were 

 taken in the fall killings at St. George Island in 1922. 



These 1,300 skins were delivered by the Gold Star at Bremerton, 

 Wash., from which point they were forwarded by freight, July 27, 

 to the Fouke Fur Co., St. Louis, arriving at their destination on 

 August 9. 



On August 11 there were placed aboard the steamship Buford^ 

 operated by the Alaskan-Siberian Navigation Co., at St. Paul 

 Island, 68 barrels containing 6,071 fur-seal skins taken in 1923. The 

 Buford arrived at Seattle with the skins September 4, whence 

 they were shipped on September 5, consigned to the Fouke Fur Co., 

 St. Louis, Mo., via Union Pacific and Wabash. They arrived at St. 

 Louis September 15. 



On September 17 there were shipped on the Coast Guard cutter 

 Bear, from St. Paul Island, 55 barrels containing 5,247 sealskins. 

 This shipment consisted of 5,245 skins taken in 1923 and 2 skins 

 from a previous year's take found in a salt house. 



On September 18 the Bear took aboard at St. George Island 32 

 barrels containing 1,619 fur-seal skins taken in 1923. 



On September 19 there were placed aboard the Eider at St. 

 George Island 14 barrels containing 700 fur-seal skins taken in 1923. 

 Weather conditions had made it impossible to place these skins 

 aboard the Bear the preceding day. It was planned that the Eider 

 should deliver them to the Bear at Unalaska. 



The Bear^ having taken aboard the 700 skins shipped September 

 19 from St. George Island on the Eider^ left Unalaska October 1 

 with a total of 7,566 skins and arrived at Seattle October 11. The 

 skins left Seattle October 12, consigned to the Fouke Fur Co., St. 

 Louis, Mo., via LTnion Pacific System and Wabash, and arrived at 

 destination October 21. 



SALES or COMMERCIAL SKINS 



Two public auction sales of fur-seal skins from the Pribilof 

 Islands were held in 1923. Both sales took place at St. Louis, Mo., 

 and a total of 20,854 skins was sold. All skins had been dressed, 

 dyed, and machined before being offered for sale. The total bid 

 price for the 20,854 skins was $632,135.75, an average of $30.31 per 

 skin. The tables below give the details regarding the prices secured 

 for each lot of skins at eacli of the sales, and the table on page 126 is 

 a summary showing the prices obtained for the skins in the various 

 trade classes and the percentages that the number of skins in these 

 several classes bore to the totals in each sale. 



May 28, 1923. — At the sale on this date 18,118 dressed, dyed, and 

 machined Pribilof skins were sold for $565,224.75, an average of 



