580 LOSS IF HERD DESTROYED. 



a large number of fur .sealskin articles. I am deeply interested in the 

 protection of the fur-seals. 



That for the twenty years last past deponent's said firm have bought 

 on their own account, dressed and dyed, annually 

 Henry Treadwell,p. 524. from 5,000 to 8,000 seal-skins. That nearly all of 

 the skins purchased by deponent's said firm are 

 bought of C. M. Lampson & Co., of London, who are the largest 

 dealers in seal skins in the world. That the majority of the skins 

 bought by said firm are a part of the skins known as the "Alaska" 

 catch — that is, as deponent is informed and believes, the skins of seals 

 killed on the Pribilof Islands by the companies having leases from the 

 United States for that purpose. A certain number of skins bought 

 by deponent's firm are those killed upon the Russian, called the Com- 

 mander, islands, known as the copper catch, and about 30 per cent 

 of the whole number of seal skins bought by deponent's firm are what 

 are called the northwest coast skins — the skius of animals killed and 

 caught in the open sea. 



I have signed my name to the annexed statement,* which I have 



carefully read, and believe to be correct in every 



Henry Treadwell, p. 52H. respect. I have also read the last paragraph or 



section of the annexed affidavit of Samuel Ull- 



mann, and I agree with everything therein stated. 



The amount of revenue derived by the United States from the Alaska 

 catch can be estimated from the following figures, 



G. A. Williams, p. 539. carefully compiled by deponent, from 1872 to 

 1887, inclusive: 



The total number of skins dressed and dyed in London and shipped 

 k» the United States during those sixteen years, was 825,000. The 

 value of the same was £3,253,941, which at exchange of $4.80 would 

 produce $15,618,916; the duty upon which at 20 per cent ad valorem 

 would be $3,12:5,783. The average duty per annum is $195,236. The 

 average rental received by the Government and tax during these years 

 from the Alaska Commercial Company was $317,500, making a total 

 average to the United States from the Alaska seal skins of $512,736; 

 and the total during the sixteen years above noted of $8,203,776, all of 

 which, as deponent believes, will be lost to the United States in the 

 future if the destruction is not prohibited. 



And as more than half of the Alaska skins sold in London are re- 

 turned as dressed skins to America, the United 

 C. A. Williams, p. 546. States Government adds to its revenue from the 

 seal islands by the collection of 20 per cent duty 

 on the valuation of this return. It is estimated that 75,000 dressed, 

 and dyed skins were shipped from London to New York in 1887. 



Most of the furs dressed and dyed in my establishment are fur-seal 

 skins, and during each of the past five or six 

 Jos. D. William*, p. years T hiive dressed and dyed from 8,000 to 

 54y " 10,000 seal- skins. 



*See affidavit of Jos. Ulliuanu et al. 



