96 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES, 1911. 



NUMBER OF DRIVES. 



On St. Paul seven drives were made to furnish the natives with 

 food during this period. These, together with 4 skins taken from 

 Japanese prisoners, 2 skins found in a bidarra (or skin lighter) after 

 last year's shipment had been made, and 53 skins taken by watchmen 

 and fox hunters, amounted to 1,275 skins. Another food drive, 

 August 10, 1911, yielded 407 skins, bringing the total from food 

 drives to 1,682. 



During the regular killing season which began July 1 and ended 

 July 31, 1911, 26 drives were made, from which 7,878 skins were 

 secured. 



The skins obtained in the manner above described numbered 9,560, 

 and it was presumed that this number would be available for ship- 

 ment. When, however, the skins were taken out of salt, bundled, 

 and counted finally, the total lacked two skins of the number counted 

 into the salt. These presumably were buried in the tons of salt 

 contained in the salt houses and undoubtedly will appear when this 

 salt is again moved in the spring. The number shipped, therefore, 

 was 9,558 instead of 9,560 shown by the record to be in salt. 



On St. George, 500 skins were taken during the food-kiUing season 

 in 8 drives. This number also includes 17 skins taken at various 

 times by watchmen for food. During the regular sealing season 14 

 drives were made, which, with 6 skins taken by watchmen, afforded 

 1,948 skins. The whole number of skins secured on St. George 

 from food killings and regular drives was 2,448, all of which were 

 shipped. 



DETAILED STATISTICS OF DRIVES. 



Following are tabulated statistics of the killing of seals during the 

 regular season of July lto31, 1911, and in one food drive August 10 

 of that year. The drives made for food during the fall of 1910 and 

 spring of 1911 either were so mixed with females that no record of 

 dismissals was made or the drives were on Sea Lion Rock, where the 

 escaping seals can not be controlled or counted. Also in small killings 

 at Zapadni and Staraya Artel on St. George during the regular 

 season, made by the natives and aggregating 72 skins, no record of 

 dismissals was made. These drives are therefore omitted from the 

 table, and the totals are correspondingly less than the number of 

 sealskins shipped. 



