108 rUE-SEAL HERD OF ALASKA. 



(30-34 inches long) weighs 4^ pounds, properly skinned is used as 

 the basis of this classification: 



Mr. TowNSEND. I will examine you now as to the killing of seals after the expira- 

 tion of this lease and when the killing was made, as it has been called here by the 

 Government. The report shows that in the year 1910, 12,920 seals were killed, and 

 the evidence before the committee is that of those 8,000 were yearlings. 



Mr. Bowers. Well, that evidence is false. 



Mr. TowNSEND. That is your answer to that, is it? 



Mr. Bowers. Yes, sir. Here are the weights on the basis, you understand, that 

 a 4^-pound skin is a yearling. There are the weights for 1909, the island weights 

 and the London weights. I think probably you will find one skin weighing less than 

 4^ pounds. 



C. M. Lampson & Co., London, November 19, 1910. 



Assortment of Alaska salted fur sealskins for account of United States Government Depart- 

 ment of Commerce and Labor. 



[New York, Ck. 1/228.] 



Lbs. Ozs. 



78 smalls 7 15 



71 3 large pups 7 2 



3,032 middling pups 6 7 



4,899 small pups 5 12 



1.266 ex. small pups 5 5 



11 ex. ex. small pups 4 10 



33 smalls, low 7 11 



135 large pups, low 6 9 



498 middling pups, low 6 1 



501 small pups, low 5 9 



88 ex. small pups, low 5 



10 small, cut 7 2 



71 large pups, cut 6 13 



238 middling pups, cut 6 2 



421 small pups, cut 5 6 



81 ex. small pups, cut 4 15 



6 small , rubbed 7 



55 large pups, rubbed 6 14 



195 middling pups, rubbed 6 6 



290 small pups, rubbed 5 11 



75 ex. small pups, rubbed 5 3 



36 faulty. 



12,732 average based on December, 1909, prices 144/. 



5 small. 

 21 large pups. 

 48 middling pups. 

 94 small pups. 

 18 ex. small pups. 



2 faulty. 



188 average based on December, 1909, prices 120/. 



12, 920 



Subject to recount. 



Mr. Elliott. Right at this point 



Mr. TowNSEND (interposing). Do you refer to 1910 or 1909? Is that 1909? 

 Mr. Bowers. No; this is 1910. (Hearing No. 3, p. 128.) 



In order to justify that killing of more than 7,733 yearlings in 

 1910, as admitted by W. I. Lembkey, under oath, April 13, 1912, 

 Dr. Jordan's man, Geo. W. Clark, prepared and published February 

 28, 1913, an elaborate and studied statement in which he declares 

 that these weights (those "loaded" blubbered skins which he and 



