106 ALASKA. 



Annual division or cash settlement made by the natives on Saint 

 PauVs Island, among themselves, the proceeds of their worh in 

 taldng and shinning 75,000 seals, at 40 cents per slcin, $30,000, 

 with extra work cmmected with it, malcing $30,637.37. 



Seventy-four shares, proportioned as follows : 



December 31, 1872.— 37 first-class shares, at $451 22 each. 



23 second-class shares, at . 406 99 each. 



4 third-class shares, at. . . 360 97 each. 



10 fourth-class shares, at. . 315 85 each. 



The shares do not represent more than forty-five able-bodied 



men. 



Annual division or cash settlement made by the people on Saint 

 George's Island, among themselves, the proceeds of their work in 

 taking and skinning 25,000 seals, at 40 cents per skin, $10,000. 



Aug. 1, 1873.— 17 shares, each 961 skius, or $384.40. $6, 294 80 



2 shares, each 935 skins, or $374. . . 748 00 



3 shares, each 821 skins, or $328.40. 985 20 



1 share, 820 skius, or $328 328 00 



3 shares, each 770 skins, or $308.. . 924 00 



3 shares, each 400 skins, or $160. . . 480 00 



Twenty-nine shares, or the twenty-nine laboring sealers ; of 

 this number two are women. Only twenty-flve of them are 

 able-bodied men. 



The divisions above are the result of their own choice. They 

 make this apportionment among themselves without advice or 

 suggestion from the agents of the company. These people have 

 $3,320 on interest in the ofiftce of the Alaska Commercial Com- 

 pany at this date, and have credit on the books for $31 ,800 ; 

 and when the division is made up on Saint Paul at the regu- 

 lar annual time of settlement in December, $30,000 will be 

 added to the above exhibit. 



The people here are occupying, rent-free at the present time, 

 thirty frame houses built by and belonging to the Alaska 

 Commercial Company on the Seal Islands. Twenty of these 

 houses are new frame, 11 by 20 feet. 



These people have their misers and spendthrifts, but it will 

 be seen that very few of them care much for saving their money, 

 inasmuch as only four or five of them have as yet taken any 

 steps toward such action. One man on Saint Paul has over 

 $1,800 saved, aud drawing interest at 9 per cent, to-day. 



