114 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1948. 
FUR-SEAL SKINS ON HAND DECEMBER 31, 1918. 
The 1917 report of Alaska Fisheries and Fur Industries, page 95, 
gives the number of fur-seal skins on hand in the States on December 
31, 1917, as 9,600. Of these, 12 skins were in storage in Washington, 
D. C., thus making the apparent number on hand at St. Louis, 
9,588. There was, however, a discrepancy of 2 skins in the shipment 
from St. George Island in 1914, which should be deducted from the 
latter number, thus leaving a total of 9,586 on hand at St. Louis as 
of December 31, 1918. Slight discrepancies sometimes occur between 
the count on the islands and the final count at St. Louis. The 
following table shows the receipt of shipments and the sales of skins 
by Funsten Bros. & Co. during the calendar year 1918: 
Fur-Seat Sxins at St. Louis 1n 1918. 
Ga hard, StaLouw, dan. TOS. oo ton ns bas eile 1-4. eee te 9, 586 
Shipments received in 1918: 
Pebronty so cee tpt ae Secs bee eee ke. ae ee ee 4, 258 
SUT oS el. chen gn anes ~-F ep as a ee bag aan @- edb co ie 3, 542 
Octobeti. basi toss 32: ben etc de db east eae 17, 816 
November s. - 2. ff P2207 ae. CO Te Oe a Oe - a ee 1,978 27,594 
Totals . 4.02.5 48 20.00... OR 28S WOE OS BIER 2 os deme cates MEP oe ee 37, 180 
Sales during 1918: 
GW al ee MR A, Eater ae Det alt Mebane) Seetioeys Sbetitee oats ot! 2 6, 100 
October 7202 S260 oe) oi in se 5 ee hee 1 FE See 2, 000 8, 100 
Balance On:hand ec, al, 1918 55. cee ce hopin ad emis es oat een ste eee ae 29, 080 
The above number remaining on hand is the same as reported by 
Funsten Bros. & Co. under date of January 8, 1919. There were, 
in addition to the above, 7,483 skins en route from the Pribilof 
Islands at the end of the year. They reached St. Louis January 
29, 1919. 
SALE OF FOX SKINS. 
The take of fox skins during the season of 1917-18 was given on 
pages 88-89 of the 1917 Alaska report as 90 blue and 14 white for St. 
Paul Island, and 602 blue and 5 white for St. George Island. These 
skins were shipped from the Islands on the Roosevelt June 22, and 
were sold in St. Louis at public auction on October 7, 1918. The 
692 blue foxes brought $57,099.50, an average of $82.51 each. 
This was an advance of 35 per cent over the prices received for the 
1916-17 skins at the sale in October, 1917. The 19 white-fox skins 
brought $1,080, or $48 to $60 each. 
