﻿PTIR-SEAL 
  SERVICE. 
  

  

  St. 
  Paul 
  Island, 
  Fall 
  op 
  1914. 
  

  

  81 
  

  

  Fox-trapping 
  operations 
  in 
  the 
  fall 
  of 
  1914 
  were 
  carried 
  on 
  about 
  

   three 
  weeks 
  later 
  than 
  customary, 
  an 
  inspection 
  of 
  the 
  catch 
  of 
  the 
  

   preceding 
  season 
  by 
  Deputy 
  Commissioner 
  Jones, 
  while 
  at 
  St. 
  Paul, 
  

   in 
  July, 
  1914, 
  leading 
  him 
  to 
  think 
  that 
  the 
  traps 
  had 
  hitherto 
  been 
  

   put 
  out 
  before 
  the 
  pelts 
  had 
  reached 
  their 
  prime. 
  

  

  Traps 
  were 
  authorized 
  to 
  be 
  set 
  out 
  on 
  the 
  evening 
  of 
  December 
  14 
  

   and 
  were 
  ordered 
  taken 
  up 
  for 
  the 
  season 
  on 
  the 
  morning 
  of 
  the 
  21st 
  of 
  

   same 
  month. 
  The 
  following 
  table 
  shows 
  the 
  catches 
  in 
  the 
  several 
  

   districts 
  : 
  

  

  Take 
  of 
  Fox 
  Pelts, 
  St. 
  Paul 
  Island, 
  December, 
  1914. 
  

  

  Summary 
  of 
  Weight 
  op 
  Foxes 
  Taken 
  on 
  St. 
  Paul 
  Island, 
  December, 
  1914. 
  

  

  Average 
  weights 
  for 
  both 
  sexes 
  were: 
  Blue 
  foxes, 
  11.03 
  pounds; 
  white 
  foxes, 
  11.74 
  pounds; 
  all 
  foxes, 
  11.17 
  

   pounds. 
  

  

  An 
  examination 
  of 
  the 
  pelts 
  of 
  the 
  1914 
  catch 
  was 
  made 
  with 
  the 
  

   idea 
  of 
  determining, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  possible 
  from 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  a 
  single 
  

   season, 
  what 
  districts 
  are 
  the 
  most 
  productive 
  in 
  the 
  finer 
  grades 
  of 
  

   skins, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  those 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  less 
  desirable 
  ones 
  are 
  taken. 
  

  

  