536 IN THE PRESENT 



The skins are consigned by the persons who take them in the fishing 

 grounds to various firms, the principal of which 



George Bice, p. 572. are C. M. Lampson & Co., and Culverwell & 



Brooks, by whom the skins are catalogued and 



advertised for the sales, which are held in October, January, or March 



in each year by Goad, Rigg & Co., as brokers for U. M. Lampson & Co., 



and by Culverwell & Brooks on their own account. 



These sales are attended by merchants and buyers from all over the 

 world, who are present either personally or by proxy, and having made 

 their purchases at such sales, the skins are transferred by them to the 

 dressers and dyers. 



The laws of trade take these skins to London for market. Two pub- 

 lic sales are held each year, usually in March and 

 C. A. Williams, p. 546. November. At these sales attend buyers from 

 Russia, Germany, France, England, and America. 

 The company sells the entire stock on hand at each occasion, and has 

 no farther connection with the skins. Its rule is to meet the market, 

 and it buys no skins for account, nor has it any interest in the dressing 

 and dyeing. That this work is done so largely in London is the choice 

 of the buyers. 



SOURCES OF SUPPLY. 

 Page 268 of The Case. 



That since deponent has been in business, skins coming upon the 

 London market have been principally divided into 



H. S. Bevington, p. 551. three classes, known as the Alaska catch, the 

 Copper catch, and the Northwest catch. Small 

 supplies have also been received from the Southern Sea, the Lobos 

 Islands, Falkland Islands, and Cape Horn; but the skins arriving 

 from these last mentioned localities make no figure in the market. 

 That what is known as the Alaska catch, consist of skins of seals 

 which are killed upon the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, and the 

 Copper catch of skins, which are killed upon the Copper and Bering 

 Islands, in Russian waters. 



That the Northwest skins consist of skins taken from animals which 

 are caught in the open Pacific Ocean, off the coast of British Columbia 

 or in the Bering Sea. 



That at the present time, and for many years last past, the skins 

 coming to the market and which are known to 



Alfred Frazer, p. 555. commerce, have come from the following sources: 

 1. And by far the most important are the North- 

 ern Pacific skins, which are known to the trade under the following 

 titles : 



The "Alaska" catch, which are the skins of seals caught on the 

 Pribilof Islands, situated in Bering Sea. For many years past the 

 whole of the skins caught upon these islands have been sold by depon- 

 ent's firm, and a statement of the number of skins so sold in each year 

 is appended hereto and marked Exhibit A, showing the aggregate of 

 such skins sold from the year 1870 to the year 1801, inclusive, as 

 1,877,977. 



The '-Copper" catch, being the skins of seals caught upon what are 

 known as the Commander Islands, being the islands known as Copper 



