106 ALASKA. 



A^inual division or cash settlement made hy the natives on Saint 

 PaiiPs Island, among themselves, the ])roceeds of their ivork in 

 taling and sMnning 75,000 seals, at 40 cents per sl;in, $30,000, 

 with extra icork connected with it, malcing $30,037.37. 



Sevonty-iour shares, proportioned as follows : 



December 31, 1872. — 37 first class shares, at $451 22 racb. 



23 second-class shares, at . 40G 99 each. 



4 third-class shares, at. . . 3G0 97 each. 



10 fourth-class shares, at.. 315 85 each. 



The shares do not represent more than Ibrty-flve able-bodied 



men. 



Annual division or cash settlement made hy the people on Saint 

 George's Island, among themselves, the proceeds of their tcorJc in 

 talcing and skinning 25,000 seals, at 40 cents per skin, $10,000. 



Aug. 1, 1873.— 17 shares, each 961 skins, or $384.40. $G, 294 80 



2 shares, each 935 skins, or $374. . . 748 00 



3 shares, each 821 skins, or $328.40. 985 20 



1 share, 820 skins, or $328 328 00 



3 shares, each 770 skins, or $308. . . 924 00 



3 shares, each 400 skins, or $1G0. . . 480 00 



Twenty-nine shares, or the twenty-nine laboring sealers ; of 

 this number two are women. Only twenty -live of them are 

 able-bodied men. 



The divisions above are the result of their own choice. They 

 make this apportionment among themselves without advice or 

 suggestion from the agents of the company. Tliese people have 

 $3,320 on interest in the office of the Alaska Commercial Com- 

 pany at this date, and have credit on the books for $31,800; 

 and when the division is made up on Saint Paul at the regu- 

 lar annual time of settlement in ])ecember, $30,000 will be 

 added to the above exhibit. 



The people here are occupying, rent-free at the present time, 

 thirty frame houses built by and belonging to the Alaska 

 Commercial Company on the Seal Islands. Twenty of these 

 houses are new frame, 11 by 20 feet. 



These people have their misers and spendthrifts, but it will 

 be seen that very few of them care much for saving their money, 

 inasmuch as only four or tive of them have as yet taken any 

 steps toward such action. One man on Saint Paul has over 

 $1,800 saved, and drawing interest at 9 per cent, to-day. 



