648 ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 



We have lost 9 deer during tbe year, 3 females and 6 males. One 

 (a bull) was killed in fighting, 2 ran away, 5 (3 of which were sled deer) 

 were killed by dogs, and 1, which our collie dogs ran away, a coast 

 native shot. At first the deer became frightened at the collie dogs, but 

 they have now become accustomed to them. In the case referred to, 

 our dogs followed one about 30 miles up the coast and ran it down 

 between the coast and large inlet lake, which is about 8 miles wide. 

 Thin ice on the lake made it impossible for the deer to return by swim- 

 ming. The dogs deserting it, a simple-minded native found it a few 

 hours later, shot it, and sent us word. 



As only four 2-year-old bulls were allotted to our herd when we left the 

 Teller Reindeer Station, and one of these becoming crippled and another 

 killed by fighting, we were afraid many of our cows would have no 

 calves. But we have been very agreeably surprised. We now have 69 

 fawns, having lost only 6 by cold and accident. During the calving 

 season in April and May we kept the herd in a sheltered place at the 

 mouth of Sooh ung-wok Eiver, about 25 miles from here. 



Last August and September we kept a cow tethered near our house 

 and milked her daily for our own use. 



Very respectfully, W. T. Lopp. 



Dr. Sheldon Jackson, 



United States General Agent of Education in Alaska. 



p. s. — Since the date of the above report we have lost 2 cows and 1 

 fawn, which leaves 171 deer in our herd. One of the cows died from 

 internal injuries received in calving, and the other was probably crip- 

 pled by our Siberian, so that it had to be killed. The fawn died from 

 intestinal troubles. 



