ite 
(m9) 
of $3,267,691, or nearly one half of the purchase money 
of our northwest possessions. 
The total amount of canned salmon in Alaska from 
1878 to 1890 was valued at $9,008,497 ; the salted from 
1881 to 1890 yielded $603,548. The full receipt for 
cod from 1868 to 1890 equalled $1,246,650; and the 
products'from the whales were valued at $11,057,418. 
Allow me to conjoin the value of these three fisheries 
alone and we have the grand total of $21,916,113, 
more than three times the purchase money. This has 
no connection with the profit from any other industry 
whatever and tells for itself whether the object of the 
United States Fish Commission and Fish Protective 
Associations are not both laudable and _ necessary 
adjuncts to the advancement of the great commercial 
interests of our country as well as to the aggrandisement 
of its people and the developement of its northwestern 
resources. 
For comparison permit me to add the value of the 
Furs, mostly 
Sealskins, - - - $48,518,920. 
Gold and Silver, - : 4,631,840, 
Ivory, from Walruses genl’y 147,047. 

$53,297,816. 
_ being the aggregate from 1868 to 1890. 
Thanking my colleagues for their earnest attention 
and their patience with my rather dry details, I retire 
with the hope that the Fishing Interests of Alaska have 
not suffered from my earnest desire for their protection 
and advancement. 
