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Ada. — Christopher Lee, 32 shares; James Robinson, 32 shares. Ada 

 was registered at Shanghai. 



Alfred Adams. — Jacob G-utman sole owner in 1886; Morris Moss in 

 1888. 



Levi W. Myers, 



Consul. 

 United States Consulate, 



Victoria, B. C, November 7, 1892. 



VALUE OF A SEALING SCHOONER. 



The sealing schooner E. B. Marvin was sold at public auction at this 

 port November 9, 1892. The price paid, including one suit of sails, 

 six sealingboats, seven shotguns, and one brass signalgun, and one 

 chronometer, was $6,800. 



The Marvin is one of the largest of the Victoria sealing fleet ; tonnage, 

 117. She came from the Atlantic coast, was registered at Kennebec, 

 Maine, and transferred to the British flag at Victoria, December 18, 

 1888, and is the only vessel of the fleet from the eastern coast built of 

 oak. She was formerly called the Mollie Adams. She is in good con- 

 dition, having been newly coppered last winter or spring, at a cost of 

 $3,200, including other repairs. 



She was bid in by E. Seabrook of this city. 



This sale and the price paid is an important indication of the value 

 of sealing-schooner property in this port. She is the largest except 

 one (the Sapphire) of the sailing fleet; is eight years old, in good repair, 

 and included in the sale was the outfit of equipments above enumerated. 



Levi W. Myers, 



Consul. 



United States Consulate, 



Victoria, British Columbia, November 10, 1802. 



Dispatch No. 197 from Consul Myers. 



Consulate of the United States, 



Victoria, B. C, November 24, 1892. 

 Honorable William F. Wharton, 



Assistant Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. : 



Sir: With this dispatch are inclosed eight special reports, and a 

 document 1 containing extracts from the evidence in the supreme court 

 of British Columbia, in cases, wherein the litigants were J. D. Warren 

 and Joseph Boscowitz, of Victoria, B. C, and which extracts set forth 

 the business relations of these parties for a number of years, including 

 1885, 1886, and 1887, and the interest Joseph Boscowitz, an American 

 citizen, had in the sealing schooners seized by United States officials 

 in 1886 and 1887. These special .reports are designated as follows: 



"Registered Tonnage Record;" "General Statistics;" "Average 

 Catch per Schooner;" "Mortgages on Seized Schooners;" "Cost of 

 Sealing Boat and Outfit;" "Firearms used by Seal Hunters;" "Cost 



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