INVESTIGATION OP THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 599 



Mr. Lembket. These were the two hundred and odd skins that Mr. 

 Clark has mentioned in his testimony, and they were weighed by the 

 joint efforts of Mr. Clark, Mr. Marsh, and myself, and allthe white 

 and native population of the islands, as a matter of fact. During the 

 experiment, I suppose every man on the islands, botb white and 

 native, had something to do with it. 



I desire to submit for the record an extract from the report made 

 of this experiment, found on pages 83 to 95 of the document cited. 

 I think it would be of considerable interest to the committee to be 

 able to determine just how this experiment was made, and for that 

 reason I have quoted in full from this report those pages therein 

 which have particular reference to this experiment. Perhaps the 

 committee does not wish me to read this, and if so, I will hand it to 

 the stenographer without reading. 



Mr. McGutre. It will be all right to have that made a part of the 

 testimony of the witness ? 



The Chairman. I think so. That may be inserted in the record. 



Mr. Stephens. By whom was that report made? 



Mr. Lembket. That is an extract from a report made by myself 

 on this subject. 



Mr. Stephens. To whom ? 



Mr. Lembket. To the Commissioner of Fisheries. 



Mr. Stephens. When? 



Mr. Lembket. In the year 1912. 



Mr. Stephens. Has it ever been published ? 



Mr. Lembket. It has been published, as I just stated, and may be 

 found in Bureau of Fisheries Document No. 780. 



Mr. Stephens. At what pages? 



Mr. Lembket. Pages 84 to 93, both inclusive. 



Mr. Stephens. If it has been printed, why should we reprint it? 



Mr. Lembket. I desire to have this appear in my statement at this 

 point, if the committee will permit it, because it gives an explanation 

 much better than I could give orally of the experiment and of all the 

 facts connected with it. 



Mr. Stephens. I have no objection. 



The Chairman. It will be printed in the record at this point. 



(The extract from Bureau of Fisheries Document No. 780, thus 

 referred to, is as follows:) 



Tags for convenient use were each provided with about 18 inches of twine, dou- 

 bled m the middle and looped through a hole in the tag. They were next arranged 

 serially on wires, 200 to each wire. These tags, as many as might be needed, thus 

 could be carried about to be affixed to skins without danger of disarranging the 

 sequence of numbers. 



On St. Paul, during the season ending August 11, 1912, each skin was given a num- 

 bered tag, beginning with No. 1 and running consecutively to No. 2880, which last 

 number represented the total number of skins taken. Such skins as will be taken 

 on St. Paul hereafter will be numbered from 2881 consecutively until each of the 

 Bkins taken has been furnished with a tag. Through a misunderstanding of instruc- 

 tions by the assistant agent in charge on St. George Island only the skins taken on 

 that island during the regular killing season (July) were tagged. These were 446 in 

 number and received tag numbers Gl to G446, both inclusive. 



MARKING, WEIGHING, AND MEASURING SEALSKINS. 



The tags were attached to the skins after the latter had been brought to the salt 

 house. There the skins were placed on one of the outside platforms and about six 

 men engaged in the work of tagging them. This was done by tying the 18-inch loop 



