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ment of the teats. My observation is that the skins 



taken from seals killed on the islands are a better Pribjiof island 



qnality than those of the same herd taken off the coast than\hoso o? coast *^ 



of California. This is owing to their being- taken at 



that season of the year when the fur is in its prime, and also taken 



from the best grade of seals. Those that are caught 



oft' the coast are killed indiscriminately, and are largely . Jn^ist^riminate kiu- 



females. Many of them having borne young for years, 



their fur is inferior to those of young bachelors. 



John N. Lofstad. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th dny of April, A. D. 1892. 

 [l. s.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



Deposition of CJiarles E. McClennen^ director of the George G. Treadicell 

 Gompany^ furriers. 



general sealskin INDUSTRY. 



State of New York, 



Gity and Gounty of Neiv Yorlc. ss: 



Charles E. McClennen, being duly sworn, says: I am 3G years of age, 

 a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Albany, 

 in the State of New York. I am a director in the Experience. 

 George C. Tread well Company, the corporation referred 

 to in the affidavit of George H. Treadwell, verified this day. I have 

 been in the fur business for about eight years, and during that tinui I 

 have handled numy fur-seal skins in all their conditions. I have read 

 the affidavit of John J. Plielan, verified the 18th day of June, 1892. I 

 was present at the examination of seal skins therein 

 referred to. While Phelan inspected all of these seal verifies affidavit of 

 skins I assisted him in the inspection of about three- fnsp^ction of skins. *** 

 fourths of them. I know that of those we inspected 

 jointly none were improperly classed as the skins of female animals. 



Chas. E. McClennen. 



Sworn to before me this 20tli day of June, 1892. 



[SEAL.] E. R. McCarty, 



Notary Fuhlic {No. 57) in and for the Gity and Gounty of New YorJc. 



Deposition of Dr. IT. H. Melntyre, superintendent of Ala si; a Gommcrcial 

 Gompany on the Fribilof IsUmds. 



cost of PLACING SEALSKINS ON THE MARKET. 



State of Vermont, Orange Gounty, ss : 



H. H, McIntyre,ofEandolph,in said county, having been duly sworn, 

 deposes and says: I am a native of Vermont, 48 

 years old. In the years 1868 and 1869 I was special ^^p^^^^^''^- 

 United States Treasury agent assigned to duty in Alaska under par- 

 ticular instructions to visit and report upon the seal fisheries of 

 Alaska, and from 1870 to 1889, inclusive, I was superintendent of the 

 sealeries for the lessees of the Pribilof Islands. In these capacities I 



