618 INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 



Measurements of seals and of green and salt sealskins taken on St. Paul Island in July, 



1912 — Continued. 





Animal. 



Green skin. 



Salt skin. 



6 

 5 



Animal. 



Green skin. 



Salt skin. 



B 



,d 



A 





,d 



si 



4 



.d 



-d 



d 





d 



A 



d 



fl 



cd 

 02 



CD 



■3 





SB 



a 



CD 



T3 



is 



P 



CD 



■a 

 'iS 



_C3 



CD 

 02 



0° 



CD 



•a 

 js 



» 



C3 



a 



to 



a 



CD 



■C 

 £ 



a 



CD 

 h5 



-3 





In. 



In. 



In. 



In. 



In. 



7ra. 



7«. 



Jn. 



In. 



In. 



J«. 



In. 



Zw. 



Jm. 



Ira. 



220 



43* 



30* 



a 



29 



21* 



37 



25 



230 



46* 



29 



3* 



32* 



25} 



33 



26* 



221 



48 



32* 



4* 



31 



25 



35J 



23} 



231 



46 



29* 



3* 



35* 



22| 



39* 



24* 



222 



46* 



27* 



3* 



32 



20* 



32} 



22* 



232 



47 



30 



3? 



33* 



23* 



38 



25 



223 



42* 



28* 



3? 



29* 



22 



38 



22} 



233 



43* 



30 



4 



30* 



22 



36f 



22* 



224 



44* 



30* 



4 



32* 



22* 



34 



22* 



234 



42* 



27 



4 



33 



20i 



32} 



23 



225 



394 



27* 



■6} 



29 



21 



38} 



23 



235 



45* 



27 



3* 



34 



23 



38* 



26 



226 



46 



31 



4 



33 



24 



36 



22J 



236 



45 



28 



■6i 



31* 



25 



38 



26 



227 



43* 



30 



4 



33 



21} 



38 



23 



237 



43 



29* 



4 



29} 



22} 



34* 



26 



228 



43 



27* 



3« 



30 



21f 



32* 



23 



238 



38* 



30* 



3} 



31* 



21 



37* 



23} 



229 



43 



26 



3J 



31* 



21 



36 



22f 



239 



46* 



28* 



4 



32 



24 



33 



25 



(Bureau of Fisheries Doc. No. 780, pp. 93-95, both inclusive.) 



Mr. Lembkey. When Mr. Elliott was on the islands last summer 

 he did not verify any of these experiments, or in fact, make any 

 independent experiments of his own to determine just what would 

 happen to the size of a seal skin after it had been removed from the 

 body and salted. He therefore has no evidence to rely upon to show 

 whether a skin does or does not shrink after removal from the body. 

 The only effort he made in this direction while on the islands last 

 summer was to measure the length only of about 400 salted skins 

 which were in the salt house at the time of his arrival on the islands. 

 The animals from which these skins were taken were not measured 

 by him, nor by anyone, as it was not known at the time they were 

 killed that any tests based on those skins were to be made. As the 

 animals from which these skins were taken were not measured, it 

 was impossible to tell, from the measurements of the salted skins, 

 what tne ages of the animals from which these skins came really 

 were, because the length of the animals then could not be ascertained. 

 Mr. Elliott, therefore, would be forced to resort to assumption to 

 determine what the ages of the animals were. 



After he had measured the length of these 400 skins, he selected 

 such of them as had heavy green weights and small salt dimensions. 

 He seems to have found nine of these, according to his report, dated 

 December 15, 1913, in hearing No. 1, page 279, with weights over 

 5 pounds, and lengths varying from 31 to 36 inches. Then, 

 assuming that 36 inches is the maximum limit of length of a salted 

 yearling skin, and that a yearling skin should weigh green only 

 about 4f pounds, he argues from this that whenever a skin is found 

 36 inches or less in length weighing more than 5 pounds, it is a 

 yearling skin and has been loaded with blubber by the skinners for 

 the purpose of delusion and fraud. 



The Chairman. You are discussing page 279 of hearing No. 1, are 

 you? 



Mr. Lembkey. Yes. In this, as in other charges before the com- 

 mittee, Mr. Elliott had no substantiating data. He did not measure 

 the animals from which these 400 skins were taken, nor did anyone; 



