1 26 ALASKA. 



Gold bullion, Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Compan}- $707, 017 



Gold and silver ore and bullion by other companies 400, 000 



13,500 seal skins taken under the lease; 52,087 seal skins taken by sealing 



fleet ; 10,000 seal skins taken by natives and others 755, 5S7 



Furs shipped b}' Alaska Commercial Company 348, 991 



Furs shipped by other parties, western Alaska go, 000 



Other products not enumerated 60, 000 



Total 7, 759, 064 



Balance of exports above imports, $5,594,886. 



Among the furs may be mentioned those of the sea otter, the 

 seal, the beaver, the silver and blue fox, the mink, and the marten. 



Mr. PetrofF ( Alaska, Its Population, Industries, and Resources, 

 1884) says: 



In the regions inhabited by the sea-otter hunters and on the Pribilof Islands, 

 a barrel ot flour per annum is consumed for each man, woman, and child more 

 than the average in civilized communities. Traders report that the demand for 

 flour and hard bread increases annually, even among the tribes of the interior. 

 The demand for tea, also, is steadily gaining, and the consumption of sugar is 

 universal wherever it can be carried by the traders, but is especially large in 

 those sections of Alaska (especially in the southeast) where the Creoles and 

 natives understand the manufacture of alcohol from sugar and molasses. Includ- 

 ing the southeastern division, which is supplied chiefly from Portland, Oreg., 

 and British Columbia, the annual shipment of flour may be estimated at not less 

 than 10,000 barrels, or a barrel for every three individuals of its population. 

 If to this are added 5,000 or 6,000 cases of hard bread, 1,200 chests of tea, 

 and 2,500 barrels of sugar, it is seen that the trade with Alaska in these staples 

 alone is assuming considerable proportions. The shipments of tobacco aggre- 

 gated from 15,000 to 20,000 pounds. Of the value of the dry goods it is 

 impossible to make an estimate, but it is safe to assume that it does not equal 

 that of groceries or provisions. 



MAIL AND TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. 



Governor Knapp, in his report for 1892, says: "The mail con- 

 tract with the Pacific Coast Steamship Company requires stoppage 

 for receipt and delivery of mail by their regular passenger and 

 freight steamers, two each month, at seven ports, viz: Kichkan, in 

 Tongass Narrows, Loring, Wrangel, Douglas, Juneau, Killisnoo, 



