70 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1915. 
and supply houses in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, 
Seattle, and other places for the purpose of securing competitive 
bids. It was provided that proposals would be received for one or 
more schedules complete, that each schedule would be considered 
separately, and that no proposal would be considered for separate 
items in a schedule. It was also provided that bidders should select 
the points at which they chose to make deliveries. With two. or 
three exceptions the most favorable bids received proposed to make 
deliveries at Seattle, and that point was accordingly made the base 
for assembling the supplies. 
For transporting the supplies to the ‘Pribilofs the Navy collier 
Saturn was secured. The vessel left Seattle on August 24 and arrived 
at San Francisco on the return trip September 28. 
Natives at Unalaska having expressed their desire to be permitted 
to furnish the salted and dried fish which would be needed at the 
Pribilofs both for human consumption and for fox food, and investi- 
gation having disclosed that terms advantageous to the department 
could be made with them, it was decided to secure the required sup- 
plies of this character from them. The natives performed their 
agreement in a highly satisfactory manner and the Bureau is pleased 
to have been able to contribute in a practical way to their means of 
securing a livelihood. It is hoped that similar arrangements may be 
made for the year 1916. 
The total cost of supplies of every nature purchased for the Pribilof 
Islands during the calendar year 1915 was $45,315.82. 
PERSONNEL. 
The statutory officers and employees on the Pribilof Islands during 
the calendar year 1915 were as follows: 
St. Paul Island: Agent and caretaker, Harry C. Fassett; store- 
keeper, E. M. Ball, succeeded by Robert H. Bishop; school-teachers, 
Mr. and Mrs. G. Dallas Hanna, succeeded by Mr. and Mrs. George 
Haley; physician, Wiliam B. Hunter. 
St. George Island: Agent and caretaker, A. H. Proctor; school- 
teacher, George Haley, succeeded by Arnold C. Reynolds; physician, 
William M. Murphy, succeeded by Henry P. Adams. 
Mr. Bishop reached St. Paul Island April 1, relieving Mr. Ball, 
who returned to field work in central Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. 
Haley were transferred from St. George Island to St. Paul Island in 
September. Dr. Adams and Mr. Reynolds reached St. George Island — 
to take up their respective duties in September, and in the same month 
Mr. Fassett, Dr. Murphy, and Mr. and Mrs. Hanna returned to the 
States. Mrs. Haley rendered assistance as a temporary employee, 
in teaching on St. George Island prior to her going to St. Paul Island; 
after her departure from St. George her work there was continued by 
