582 



TESTIMONY. 



Number of skilled 

 ■Nvorkmen. 



Eiglitb. Deponent says that wliat may be termed 

 the fiir-seal business has largely been built np by the 

 efforts of the Alaska Commercial Company, the North American Com- 

 mercial Company, and the firm of C. M. Lampson & Co. 



Lar e amount of That it depcuds to a considerableextentnpon making 

 EngH^slTeapitei'in fur- scal skius an article of fashion and of trade and that a 

 seal business. yg^,y large auiouut of capital is invested in the King- 



dom of Great Britain in the business. 



It is, in dejionent's judgment, fair to estimate the amount of capital 

 invested in the business in one way or another to have been at times 

 as much as £1,000,000 and that there have been until lately dependent 

 npon this industry, in the city of London, about 2,000 

 skilled workmen, most of whom have families depend- 

 ent npon them for support, and the amount of wages 

 paid to those people dei)onent estimates on the average at about 30 

 shillings per week, making an aggregate of £150,000 per annum. 

 Deponent further says that the continuance of this business depends 

 very largely upon the maintenance of a steady and reg- 

 sMns^desii™.^^ "^ "^^^1' supply of lurscal skins in order that the trade 

 may be able to calculate with approximate certainty 

 the number of skins Avhich are to be received in each year. 



Deponent further says that the maintenance of this business, to his 

 mind, obviously depends upon the preservation of the 

 seal herds resorting to Bering Sea from the destruc- 

 tion which has overtaken the seal herds which were 

 formerly found in tlie sonthern regions, and that whatever is necessary 

 to be done to preserving the seal herds in Bering Sea ought t<» be done; 

 but deponent liaving no knowledge of the business of killing seals, and 

 having no scientific knowledge on the subject as a naturalist, is not in a 

 position to relate what laws or regulations, in addition to those already 

 existing, are necessary, if any such are necessary, in order to accomplish 

 this desirable result. 



Emil Teichmann. 



Sworn at 04 Queen street, in the city of London, England, this 25th 

 day of Aiu'il, 1802, before me. 



Francis W. Frigout, 

 Vice and Deputy Consul General of the 

 United States of America at London, England. 



Protection 

 ear.y. 



Exhibit A. 



Salted Lobos Island fur-seals sold in Loudon. 



New York, March 23, 1S92. 

 Tliis is the paper writing, marked A, referred to iu the affidavit of Emil Teielnuaun, 

 nvorii before me tliis 25th day of April, 1892. 



Francis W. Frigout, 

 Vice and Deputy Consul General, U. S. A., London, England. 



