MINOR FUR-BEARING ANIMALS. 



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eries, Washington, D. C." The postmaster will then dispatch the shipment of furs as 

 addressed, without examining the contents for the purpose of verifyins; the shipper's 

 report, and will mail the report under cover of an official penalty envelope addressed 

 "Commissioner of Fisheries, Washington, D. 0." 



Postmasters should not permit their supplies of the report form to become exhausted, 

 but in due time should make requisitions upon the Commissioner of Fisheries for 

 specific quantities. 



The present system of reporting fur shipments will remain in effect through Septem- 

 ber 30, 1917. 



A. S. Burleson, 

 Postviaster General. 



Furs were formerly the most valuable product of Alaska, and while 

 they have yielded to the products of the mines and the fisheries the 

 absolute value of the annual output is large. 



The following table shows the detailed statistics as compiled from 

 information furnished the Bureau in regard to the furs shipped from 

 Alaska in the years ending November 15, 1915, 1916, and 1917: 



Furs Shipped from Alaska in 1915, 1916, and 1917 .o 



Species. 



Black 



Brown 



Glacier 



Gri/.zly 



Polar. 



Beaver 



Ermine 



Fo.x: 



Black 



Blue 



Bl'je, Pnbilof Islands 



Cross 



Red 



Silver gray 



White 



White, Pribilof Is- 

 lands 



Hare, Arctic 



Lynx 



Marten 



Mink 



Muskrat 



otter: 



I^and 



Sea 



Seal, fur, Pribilof Islands 



Seal, fur 



Squirrel 



Wolf 



Wolverine 



TotaL 



Year ended Nov. 15, 

 1915. 



Num- 

 ber of 



pelts. 



S 



382 



253 



1,360 



11,770 



187 



5,967 



40 

 51 

 9, .374 

 3,028 

 23,073 

 32,933 



Aver- 

 age 

 value. 



$7.50 

 7.50 

 50.00 

 20.00 



10.00 



400.00 

 50.00 



112.49 

 12.00 

 8.00 



150.00 

 13.00 



23.94 

 .10 

 8.00 

 6.00 

 2.00 

 .15 



8.00 



.05 

 4.00 

 7.00 



Total 

 value. 



$5, 542. 50 

 150.00 

 150.00 

 400.00 



3,200.00 

 19,100.00 

 28, 459. 97 

 16,320.00 

 94, 160. 00 

 28,050.00 

 77,571.00 



957.60 

 5.10 

 74,922.00 

 18,168.00 

 46,146.00 

 4,93i 



7,840.00 



8.35 

 204.00 

 833.00 



Year ended Nov. 15, 1916. 



Num- 

 ber of 

 pelts. 



$9.00 

 7.50 

 50.00 

 14 



6.50 



26 



659 



420 



2,508 



15,711 



318 



6.178 



1,090 

 21,608 



3,100 

 22,255 

 101,827 



1,330 



7,061 



250.00 

 50.00 

 48.20 

 25.00 

 12.00 



150.00 

 20.00 



14.25 

 .15 

 12.00 

 9.00 

 4.00 

 .35 



15.00 

 500.00 

 30.00 



.10 

 7.00 

 6.00 



$10,161.00 

 307.50 

 250.00 

 196.00 



240.50 

 3,476.00 



6,500.00 

 32,9.50.00 

 20,242.00 

 62,700.00 



188,532.00 

 47,700.00 



123,560.00 



285.00 

 163.50 

 259,296.00 

 27,900.00 

 89,020.00 

 35,639.45 



19,950.00 



500.00 



211,830.00 



21.40 



399.00 



1, 782. 00 



Year ended Nov. 15, 1917. 



Num- 

 ber of 

 pelts. 



1,061 



62 



8 



13 



6 144 



<118 



10 



887 



567 



2 



lo; 485 



443 



3, 



21, 210 

 /1, 210 

 18,832 

 72, 264 



1, 



A2 



«-9,140 



195 

 435 



1,143,601.35 1,338, 



Aver- 

 age 

 value. 



$14.00 

 12.00 

 20.00 

 17.00 

 40.00 

 10.00 



160. 00 

 58.00 

 61.11 

 35.00 

 24.00 



120.00 

 28.00 



26.33 

 .40 



14.00 



14, 

 4.00 

 .45 



15.00 

 344.85 

 30.00 

 30.00 

 .05 

 8.00 

 8.00 



$14,854.00 



744.00 



160.00 



221.00 



5,760.00 



1,180.00 



4,175.10 



1,600.00 

 51,446.00 

 34,653.50 

 93,415.00 



251,640.00 

 53,160.00 



103,096.00 



1,027.00 

 35.60 

 296,940.00 

 16,940.00 

 75,328.00 

 32,518.80 



19,620.00 



689. 70 



274,200.00 



150.00 



5.85 



1,560.00 



3,480.00 



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o The corresponding table in the report for 1915, Bureau of Fisheries Document 834, did not include ship- 

 ments of blue-fox, white-fox, or fur-seal skins from Pribilof Islands. 



b The killing of polar bears in Alaska is unlawful. Seventeen skins were reported as being taken in extra- 

 territorial waters. 



c Confiscated pelts. ] 



* Thirty-three shipped under permit. lit is unlawful to kill beavers in Alaska 

 « Includes 57 seized skins and 46 reported as Canadian pelts. J 



/ Checked against alfldavits that skins were taken before Mar. 15, 1916. It is now unlawful to kill mar- 

 tens in Alaska. 

 a Found dead. 

 A Unlawfully killed by natives. 



• Calendar year 1917. 



;■ It is unlawful to kill fur seals within the Territorial waters of Alaska except on the Pribilof Islands. 



