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228 Schooner "Sapphire" Victoria, British Columbia, one Season's Disiursemenw. 



Wagea paid Indians $13, 696. 20 



" crew 3,666.87 



Insurance 1, 393. 41 



Port expenses, -watcLman, &c 240. 85 



Labour 224. 25 



Ship chandlery 1, 583. 28 



Provisions 2, 132. 62 



Hardware 124. 12 



Sundries 313. 33 



Guns 114. 75 



Ammunition 1 12. 47 



Towaue 118. 50 



Freight 214.42 



Sailmakers 654. 02 



Shipwrights 211. 00 



Slop account, clothes, boots, &c 623. 45 



Lumber 39. 45 



Boats 80. 00 



Total expenditure $25, 542. 99 



(Signed) John G. Cox. 



This is the statement marked (A) referred to in the declaration of John Graham 

 Cox, declared before me this 24th day of December, a. d. 1892. 



(Signed) A. L. Belyea, Notary Public. 



Canada, Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria. 



I, William Turpel, of tlie city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, ship-builder, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I have been in the business of ship-building for fourteen 

 years at the city of Victoria, British Columbia. 



2. That during the last ten years I have been almost wholly engaged 

 in repairing, rebuilding, and building sealing-schooners belonging to 

 the Victoria fleet. The first sealer I built was the " May Belle," 58 tons 

 register. I launched the "May Belle "from my yard in March 1891. I 

 built the hull and furnished spars, rigging, and sails for 7,000 dollars. 

 I lost money on her, about 600 dollars, on my contract to build her. 



3. That in the year 1891 I built for myself the sealer " Sadie Turpel," 

 56 tons register. The "Sadie Turpel" cost, when ready to receive her 

 sealing outfit, the sum of 10,500 dollars. The "Sadie Turpel" cost a 

 trifle more tban other vessels I have built of the same tonnage, for the 

 reason that she is a stronger built vessel, and nothing but first-class 

 material went into her construction. 



4. The sealing outfit of the " Sadie Turpel" for 1892 cost a little over 

 4,000 dollars, and the wages of crew and hunters' share, 4,558 dol. 

 98 c. Other charges and supplies brought the cost of the voyage up to 

 8,782 dol. 87 c. 



5. That during the last ten years I have not known any sealing- ves- 

 sels, except one or two, as hereafter stated, to engage in any other kind 

 of business or trade than sealing. In fact, there is nothing else for 

 them to do, and without the sealing the fleet would be mostly useless 

 and valueless. The sealers I have known to f^ngage in other work than 

 sealing are the "Mischief," a small steam-schooner, this year engaged 

 in halibut fishing as an experiment, and a trip the "C. H. Tupper" made 

 to the Sandwich Islands with a submarine cable outfit. The whole fleet 

 remains in Victoria Harbour from the close of one sealing season to the 

 opening of the next. 



