62 THE DEPONENTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCE. 



business. All advices from our London agents, and information in 

 regard to the sealskin market from all sources, passed through my 

 hands, and instructions to the agents of the company in regard to the 

 class of skins desired emanated from time to time from me. 



Fred Smith, being duly sworn, deposes and says: Was born at and 



reside ;.'/ Victoria. Have been a seal-hunter for 



Fred. Smith p. 349. the last three years on the Winifred, Sea Lion, and 



Mascot, British schooners, and the American 



schooner Challenge. Have hunted seal in Bering Sea and the Pacific 



Ocean. 



John W.Smith, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at the 



settlement known as Soldovoi, on Cooks Inlet, 



Jno. W. Smith, p. 232. Alaska. I have lived in the Territory for the past 



twenty-four years, chietiy at trading posts along 



the cost of Alaska, between Prince William Sound and the Yukon 



River, in the employ of fur-trading companies. I am at present the 



agent of the North American Commercial Company at this place, and 



it is my duty to trade in, and otherwise handle, furs and skius of all 



descriptions. 



William H. Smith, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am by 

 occupation a seaman and seal-hunter. Have been 



ffm. H. Smith, p. i78. engaged in catching seals in the North Pacific 

 Ocean for fourteen years and one season in Bering 

 Sea. Have been mate and captain while sealing. 



E. W. Soron, having been duly sworn, deposes and says : I am by 



occupation a seaman. I reside in San Francisco. 



E. W. Soron, p. 479. j was iu the $ orih p ac ia c in 1888, on board the 



City of San Diego, as mate. 



Stahkan, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born at Yakutat 

 and am now a very old man. Have hunted seal 



Stahkan, p. 244. and scantier all my life during the summer sea- 



son, using the spear and arrow. 



Emil J. Stake, being duly sworn, says: I am 28 years of age, a citi- 

 zen of the United States, and a resident of the 

 EmilJ. stake, p. 530. city of New York. In 1851 John Kuszits estab- 

 lished in the city of New York a large wholesale 

 fur business, at the head of which he remained until his death in 1890. 

 * * * I entered the employ of John Ruszits at the age of 14. Since 

 the age of 21 I have been familiar with every transaction connected 

 with the business, and upon his death I succeeded to its sole manage- 

 ment. 



William Charles Blatspiel Stamp, being duly sworn, doth depose and 

 say : That he is 51 years of age, and a subject of Her Britannic Majesty, 

 and is engaged in business at 38 Knightrider 

 TV. C. B. Stamp, p. 574. street, London, E. C, as a fur and skin merchant. 

 That he has been engaged in that business for 

 upwards of thirty years, and has been in the habit of purchasing fur- 

 seal skins during the whole of the time that he has been in business. 

 That he has personally handled many thousands of such fur-seal skins, 



