570 



IN THE PRESENT. 



The following tabulated statement, prepared by me from those ac- 

 counts [of the Alaska Commercial Company] 

 Max Reilh-onner, p. 510. show the fur-seal skins purchased and shipped 

 to the company by its agents at Kadiak and 

 Unalaska and from miscellaneous sources from 1871 to 1891, inclusive: 



Date. 



1SS3 . 



1884 



1885 



1886 



1887 



1 888 



1889 



1890 



1891 



Total 



Unalaska. "Kadiak. 



1,546 



2, 183 

 1, 389 

 2,8'J1 

 4, 687 



1, 757 



3, 046 



2, 079 

 2, 925 



Miscel- 

 laneous 



96 



223 



491 

 95 

 513 

 471 



Total. 



1, 052 



2,218 

 1,485 



3 044 

 4,687 

 2.251 

 3.141 

 3, SS2 

 3, 390 



40, 988 



The district covered by the company's agency at Unalaska embraces 

 the stations at Unga, Bolkoffski, Sannak, Akoutan, Moshrovia, Unmak, 

 Atka, and one or two smaller posts. I am credibly informed by those 

 cognizant of the business and believe that a large majority of the skins 

 from this agency were captured in the North Pacific. The district 

 embraced by the Kadiak Agency includes the stations at upper and 

 lower Kenai, Prince William Sound, and several trading posts on 

 Kadiak Island, and without doubt all the skins from this agency were 

 caught in the North Pacific. A large majority of all the skins from 

 both places were pups a few months old. The skins under the head of 

 miscellaneous were bought from different vessels which brought them 

 to San Francisco. I think they were all or nearly all caught in the 

 North Pacific. 



I append hereto a statement showing the number of seals killed an- 

 nually upon Copper Island from 1871 to 1880, in- 

 C.F.Em il Krcbs, p. 106. elusive. This statement shows that 3,658 skins 

 were taken in 1871. This number were shipped 

 that year, but the number actually killed was in fact more than 6,000. 



The following table shows the number of fur-seals taken for their skins 

 on Copper Island, of the Commander group, from 1871 to 1880, inclusive, 

 under the direction of C. F. E. Krebs, for Hutchinson, Kohl & Co.: 



1871 3,658 



1*72 14,964 



is;:; 14,661 



1874 15,480 



1875 20,440 



1876 15, 074 



1877 11,392 



1878 20,070 



1870 25, Hit) 



1880 30,014 



Total 170,919 



Note. — There were in fact about 0,000 killed in 1871, of which only 

 the numbers as above stated were shipped. In 1870 and, 1877 more 

 could have been taken, but the seal-skin market was depressed and 

 they were not wanted. 



