RELATING TO FUR-SEALS AND SEALSKIN INDUSTRY. 369 



Deposition of Max Heilbronner, secretary of the Alaska Commercial 



Company. 



I, Max Heilbronner, secretary of the Alaska Commercial Company, 

 solemnly swear that the foregoing "Comparative statement of assort- 

 ment, weights, and prices realized on Alaska sealskins 1874 to 1889," 

 was compiled and formulated by me from the records of the Alaska 

 Commercial Company now in my custody, and is correct and true, ac- 

 cording to my best knowledge and belief. 



Max Heilbronner, 

 Sec^y of Alaska Commercial Co. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, at San Francisco, this 4th day of 

 May, A. D. 1892. 

 [seal.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



Deposition of N. Hodgson, sealer. 



Personally appeared before mo N. Hodgson, who deposes and says: 

 I am twenty -four years old. I am a native of Ontario, Canada, and 

 at present a resident of Port Townsend, Washington. 

 I am a seal hunter by occupation and have made five x P enen ce. 

 sealing voyages to the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. I have 

 handled a great many sealskins and can upon examination of the pelt 

 distinguish the sex of the animal, except in the case of animals under 

 two years of age; these can not always be distinguished. 1 examined 

 carefully this day four hundred and twenty sealskins 

 onboard the British sealing schooner Henrietta, which jj^^t^h 11 Uen ~ 

 skins, according to log and sealing book of said vessel 

 were taken in Bering Sea during the month of August, 1892, and find to 

 the best of my knowledge and belief the proportion of tbe sexes to be 

 as follows: Females, three hundred and sixty-one; males, thirty -three; 

 young, the sex of which could not be distinguished, twenty-six. 



1ST. Hodgson. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me at Sitka, Alaska, this 21st day ol 

 September, 1892. 

 [seal.] C. L. Hooper, 



Notary Public, District of Alaska. • 



Deposition of G. L. Hooper, captain, United States Revenue Marine. 



District of Columbia, 



City of Washington, ss. : 

 Personally appeared before me C. L. Hooper, who deposes and says: 

 From the investigations concerning seal life at sea, personally con- 

 ducted by me, in the North Pacific during the months of March, April, 

 May, and June; in Bering Sea during the month of 

 August and part of September; in the vicinity of the , Dr . aw i conclusions 



a 1 j." r^i • i • j-i j-i n y-» . i -. . hereinafter stated. 



Aleutian Chain dunng the month of October and part 

 of November, as Avell as from the experience obtained in six other 

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