10 INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 



until 1915, the number of fawns born that year should number approx- 

 imately over 38.000. This ever-increasing annual birth of fawns will 

 settle favorably many important questions in the development of 

 Alaska. 



Table II. — Increase of jawns, 1S9S to 1904- 



Average annual increase of herds by fawns, 1893-1904, 45 per cent. 



Those who have loans of reindeer are allowed, under the super- 

 vision of the local agent in charge of the reindeer, to kill for their 

 own use or sell to outsiders surplus male deer from their own herds. 

 This method enables a herder to provide a support for his family. 

 No female deer are allowed either to be killed or sold, except under 

 special circumstances, when they can be sold to the Government for 

 the establishment of new herds, without impairing the productivity 

 of the herd. 



Table III. — Number of reindeer sold, butchered, or died, 1892 to 1904- 



1892 28 I 1899. 



1893 



1894 



1895 



1896 



1897 



1898 



299 



23 ! 1900 487 



96 



538 



1901 



148 ' 1902 353 



100 1903 290 



1904 377 



"334 



185 I 



Table IV. — ShowiTig sex of reindeer in herds, 1904- 



Total. 



1,770 



5,307 



956 



912 



8,189 



u 246 of these deer -vere killed in the relief expedition to the whalers at Point Barrow. 



