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ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1917. 



The following table shows a summary of the trade classifications 

 and the percentage of the total number in each class: 



Summary op Trade Classifications and Percentage in Each Class of the 

 Fur-Seal Skins Sold at St. Louis, April 18, 1917. 



Trade classification. 



Small pups 



Middling pups 



Large pups 



Smalls 



Middlings and smalls 

 Middlings 



Total 



1,500 



At the third sale in 1917, held October 8, the number of skins s Id 

 was 3,239. These skins brought $107,447 gross, averaging S33.17 

 each. The following table shows details in regard to the sale: 



Details of Sale of 3,239 Dressed, Dyed, and Machined Pribilof Islands Fur- 

 Seal Skins at St. Louis Oct. 8, 1917. 



