104 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1916. 
animals for food, (5) the exchange of breeding animals between the 
two islands in order to maintain virility and a hat too close inbreed- 
ing, and (6) the utilization of skins. 
St. George Island.—A census taken in August, 1916, showed that 
the herd on this island consisted of 31 fawns and 54 others aged 1 
year and upward. In the early part of 1916 two males were killed 
and the meat distributed, principally among the native families. 
One of the reindeer dressed 204 pounds, the other 158 pounds. 
It was not possible to undertake the building of a corral on St. 
George until in October when one was begun. 
St. Paul Island.—The press of other work curtailed the amount of 
attention which it had been hoped could be given to the herd on this 
island. At the end of the year the herd numbered at least 111. 
RADIO SERVICE. 
Radio stations were maintained on St. Paul and St. George Islands 
by the Navy Department throughout the year. These stations render 
valuable assistance to the Bureau. For several months each year no 
other means of communicating with the islands are available. 
In June various repairs and improvements were made by the Navy 
Department to the St. Paul radio station. Among these were the 
building of a tramway which, in connection with an extension made 
by the Bureau of Fisheries, will be of considerable use in the handling 
of sealskins and supplies. Natives were given employment by the 
Navy Department at the rate of 25 cents per hour, earning thereby 
over $750. 
Employees at the radio station on St. Paul cooperated with the 
Bureau in many ways, including the overhauling and repairing of 
machinery and the pumping of water to the tanks from which the 
village of St. Paulis supplied. At the time the supply ship was being 
discharged two electricians were detailed to operate the launches used 
for towing the bidarras and skiffs in which supplies were transferred 
from the supply ship to the island and a third was detailed to operate 
a radio outfit which was temporarily installed on the ship. This tem- 
porary station was kept in operation throughout the period the cargo 
was being discharged at both islands and assisted materially in reduc- 
ing the time required for the work. 
At St. George Island natives were g.ven emp_oyment by the Navy 
Department, for which they received about $240. During the year 
the employees of the Bureau and the Navy Department cooperated 
in various ways, to the advantage of both. Through the courtesy of 
the Navy Department a quantity of freight was transported from 
St. Paul to St. George. 
