TO THE UNITED STATES. 77 



acquire tliese valuable products and the right to 

 prote\)t them." ^ 



The committee, in the report quoted, in proof Revenuo roceiv- 



^ -*• ^ ed by the Uinti-fl 



of the ffreat value of the fur-seal industry ^*^*<^! ^}'^^ ^"^'^ 



~ «^ seal iiuUistry ac- 



acquired from Russia, cited the fact that it had^/^^^^^ irou/Eus- 

 already yielded to the Government a revenue 

 greater than the entire cost of the territory. 

 The tables in the Appendix^ show that there has 

 been received by the United States Treasury 

 directly from the lessees of the Pribilof Islands 

 from 1870 to 1891, the sum $6,226,239; and that 

 there has been received from import duty on the 

 same skins after having been dressed and dyed 

 in London approximately the further sum of 

 $5,000,000; so that the total receipts of the 

 United States Treasury from the Pribilof fur-seal 

 skins have amounted to about S 1 1,000,000. The 

 tables appended^ also establish the fact that fur- 

 seal skins constitute more than half of the total 

 value of all products obtained from Alaska from 

 the time of the purchase in 1867 down to 1890. 

 It thus appears that the high estimate of the fur- 

 seals which was made at the time of the cession 

 and purchase from Russia was not unfounded. 



1 House Ex. Doc. No. 3883^ Fiftietli Cougrcss, spcoud sessioJi, p, 

 six. 



'^\o\. I, p. 130. 



3 <' Notes oji the Fur Industry, etc.," Jj^stparagrapU. Vol. I, p, 133, 



