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TESTIMONY. 



1SS9— Contiuueil. 



May.... 

 August. 

 October. 



May 



June 



September . 

 October 



April . . . 

 May 



June 



July 



Do.. 



Do.. 

 August. 



X umber 

 of seal 

 skins 



730 



57 



4,706 



Total 

 price. 



$3, 910. 00 



295. 00 



27, 138. 40 



Average 



price 

 per skin. 



$5.35 

 5.17 

 5.76 



18S8. 



1,835 

 1,076 

 3,516 



$S, 237. 95 

 4,831.40 

 20, 208. 75 

 20, 700. 74 



$4.49 

 4.49 

 5.75 

 5.61 



$6.12 

 6.62 

 6.18 

 7.61 

 7.17 

 6.28 

 6.29 



May 



June 



Do 



September. 



Do 



October 



Do 



Do 



Mav- 



'D 



July. 



Number 

 of seal 

 skins 



Total price. 



$3, 507. 75 



4, 882. 50 



Average 



price per 



skin. 



9.48 

 8.69 

 6.97 

 10.98 

 11.00 

 11.27 

 11.60 

 11.16 



1,487 

 26 

 105 



22, 232. 00 



312.00 



1,715.00 



14.95 



12.00 

 16.33 



Jos. Ullmann. 



Statemeut referred, to in annexed affidavit of Samuel Ullmaim. 



George KissiNaER, Jr., 



Noiary Public. 



JDcposition of Elkan Wassermann, furrier, San Francisco. 



pelagic sealing. 



State op Califounia, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss: 

 Elkan Wassermann, liaving been duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 

 53 years of age. I reside in San Francisco. My occupation is that of 

 a merchant. I have been engaged in buying furs for the last thirty 

 years. I have examined and bought a great number 

 Experience. of scal-fur slvius duiing that time. Some were skins 



taken by hunters oft' the coast of California, and others 

 from the coasts of British Columbia, Alaska, and Japan ; and I have 

 also bought skins from other dealers. Some were shot and some were 

 speared. I have often conversed with the hunters relative to the per- 

 centage of the loss of seals to those taken, and some 

 Waste of life. tcll luc they get 1 out of 5 or 6. From my knowl- 



edge of the sealing business I am satisfied that the 

 seals will be entirely exterminated unless protected 

 from the indiscriminate i^ursuit in the waters that has been going on 

 for the last few years. 



E. Wassermann. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of April, A. D. 1892, 

 [SEAL,] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



Protection neces 

 sary. 



