INVESTIGATION OP THE EUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 585 



Mr. Clark. I did that, and I Lave given that in my testimony here. 

 I can give it right now. 



Mr. Stephens. Let us have that. 



Mr. Clark. These are the dimensions: The total weight of the 

 205 green skins is 1,219 pounds, an average of 5.9 pounds; the total 

 length of the 205 green skins is 6,582.50 inches, which is an average 

 of 32.1 inches per skin in green state; the total width of those 205 

 green skins was 4,601.50 inches, an average of 22.4 inches. Now, we 

 took them in salt also. The total weight of the 205 salted skins was 

 1,140.25 pounds and the average weight in salt was 5.5 ounces, a 

 reduction of four-tenths of a pound, which is 6.4 ounces. 



Mr. Stephens. What per cent of loss would that be ? What would 

 be the difference between the green hide and the salted hide ? 



Mr. Clark. That would have to be figured. 



Mr. Stephens. You have given the figures and we can figure it out. 



Mr. Clark. Yes. Now, as the measurement of those salted skins 

 is the question in dispute between myself and Mr. Elliott let me give 

 you these figures. The length of these 205 salted skins was 7,404 

 inches, and that made an average for each skin of 36.1 inches; the 

 average width of the 205 skins was 4,951.50 inches, which would be 

 24.1 inches average in width. The skins, you see, in the salting 

 process had expanded, in other words, had lost the elasticity which 

 caused them to contract in the green state and under the salting 

 process they had expanded in size and had reduced in weight. 



Mr. Stephens. What was the weight of these sealskins? 



Mr. Clark. The average was 5.5 pounds. 



Mr. Stephens. They were above the 5-pound limit agreed upon by 

 the lease ? 



Mr. Clark. Yes; the average was 5.9 pounds, which was well 

 above it, you know. 



Mr. Stephens. These were all 2-year-old skins? 



Mr. Clark. Yes; and the clubbers were limited between weights 

 of 5f pounds and 6^ pounds. I want to ask whether that is not a 

 guaranty of the accuracy of the judgment of the clubbers and of the 

 control the agents exerted over those men in doing that work, that 

 they should have kept those 205 animals to an average of 5.9 pounds ? 

 They were required to keep between 5f pounds and 6^ pounds. 



Mr. Stephens. You gave some basis for the average weight of those 

 2-year-olds, did you not ? 



Mr. Clark. Yes. I have a summary of the animal weights also. 

 The total weight of the 205 animals was 13,121.50 pounds, an average 

 of 64 pounds apiece. 



Mr. Stephens. I believe there was some evidence yesterday to the 

 effect that the yearling seals only averaged 39 pounds ; is that correct ? 



Mr. Clark. I offered that as the report given by Mr. Elliott. 



Mr. Stephens. What is your experience about that? 



Mr. Clark. I have not weighed the ye ai lings, you see, because I 

 never had an opportunity to get hold of the animals. However, I 

 would want to determine it on a different basis because Mr. Elliott's 

 basis was only six animals, which is too small a numbe,. 



Mr. Stephens. Would it not be fail to suppose that the weight of 

 an animal would bear the same relation to the weight of the skins in 

 the small ones and in the large ones, in the yearlings and 2-year olds ? 



