DEPENDENCE ON ALASKAN HERD. 



571 



The following table, prepared by Hutchinson, Kohl, Philipeus & Co., 

 of San Francisco, lessees of the right to take fur- 

 seals upon the Commander and Robben Islands, g. Niebaum, p. 204. 

 shows the number of seal-skins secured annually 

 from these respective islands from 1871 to 1891: 



Tear. 



1871 



1872 

 1873 

 1874 

 1875 

 1876 

 1877 

 1878 

 1873 

 1880 

 1881 

 1882 

 1883 

 1884 

 18S5 

 1886 

 1887 

 1888 

 1889 

 1890 

 1891 



Comman- 

 der Is- 

 lands. 



Robben 



Islands. 



2.694 

 2,414 

 3, 127 

 1,528 

 2,949 

 3,142 

 4, 002 



3, 330 



4, 207 

 4,106 

 2,049 

 3,819 

 1,838 



Total. 



3,614 

 29,356 

 30,404 

 31, 300 

 36, 27!) 

 26, 960 

 21,533 

 31, 340 



42, 750 

 48, 504 



43, 521 



44, 620 

 28, 699 

 53,263 

 43,575 

 54, 591 

 46, 347 

 17, 362 



52, 859 



53, 780 

 5,800 



776, 467 



DEPENDENCE ON ALASKAN HERD. 



Page 268 of The Case. 



From the year 1870 down to the present time deponent's firm have 

 received and handled from the Alaska < Jommercial 



Company and from Messrs. Hutchinson, Kohl, Emil Teichmann, p. 580. 

 Philippeus & Co., from the North American Com- 

 mercial Company,and the Russian Seal-Skin Company of St. Petersburg, 

 which company have now succeeded to the lease of the Komanclorski 

 and Robben Islands formerly enjoyed by Hutchinson, Kohl, Philippeus 

 & Co., all the skins of seals which have been killed upon the Pribilof 

 Islands and upon the Copper Islands. They have also received at least 

 three-fourths of the skins included in what is called the Northwest 

 catch until the year 1891, when the major part of the skins of the catch 

 were consigned to Messrs. Culverwell, Brooks & Co., of London. A 

 large number of the skins of this catch, amounting in one year to 40,000 

 a year, have been consigned to deponent's firm by the firm Hermann 

 Liebes & Co., of San Francisco. 



The total number of skins of the Northwest catch received by depo- 

 nent's firm during the years 1872 and 1892, inclusive, are set forth with 

 accuracy in an affidavit made by my partner, Alfred Fraser, in New 

 York, a copy of which, dated April 1, and acknowledged E.T.Rice, 

 notary public, has been received by me from him and I annex hereto a 

 copy of the lists of Northwest kins attached to Mr. Fraser's affidavit, 

 making the same a part of this deposition, and mark the same Exhibit 

 C. I also append hereto as a part of this deposition copies of the lists 

 attached to the affidavits of Mr. Fraser of Alaska skins sold in London 

 by my firm during the years 1870 to 1892, inclusive, and to the Copper 

 Island skins sold by my firm in London during the years 1872 to 1892, 

 inclusive, and mark the same respectively Exhibits D and E, and I re- 

 fer to the affidavit of Mr. Fraser above mentioned for au explanation 



