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FUE-SEAL HERD OF ALASKA. 



following the salt house was opened and the work as above ordered 

 was carried out to the letter; it was finished at 6 p. m. 



The following results were obtained, the measurements and weights 

 being all simultaneously made by Messrs. Elliott and Gallagher for 

 the committee, and Messrs. Hatton and Clark and Wliitney for the 

 Bureau of Fisheries; every figure of weight and measurement being 

 called out at the time it was recorded and made, and agreed to then 

 and there by all parties engaged. Mr. Hatton, for the Bureau of 

 Fisheries, verified every measurement with Mr. Elliott, and agreed 

 upon the same as they were recorded; Mr. Clark and Mr. Wliitney, for 

 Fisheries Bureau, verified every weight with Mr. Gallagher, and agreed 

 upon the same as they were recorded. The following table of recorded 

 salt weights and measurements has been therefore made in complete 

 agreement with the officials in charge of the island, they having a 

 copy of it as it was made on the Salter's bench. 



The natives selected nine of their best men, who took turns in salt- 

 ing and bundling the skins. No one spoke to them as they did this 

 work, or made a suggestion even as to how they should prepare these 

 skins for shipment in salt. 



Each skin has a leather tag strung to it by one or the other of its 

 flipper holes; on this tag is the number stamped indelibly and so 

 identifies it in the bundles as recorded. 



Table showing the record and system of recording salted fur-seal skin measurements and 

 weights which teas adopted by Special Agents Elliott and Gallagher in the Government 

 salt house July 29. 191-J, when making this record of those green veights and salt iceights 

 and measurements of 400 fur-seal skiyis taken bi/ order of Bureau of Fisheries on the island 

 of St. Paul, July 7, 1913. 



