656 INVESTIGATION" OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 



Mr. Stephens. Between the two ? 



Mr. Gallagher. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Stephens. Did that add to the weight materially? 



Mr. Gallagher. Yes, sir; it did add to the weight. 



Mr. Stephens. The amount of salt that was placed between the 

 two skins ? 



Mr. Gallagher. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Stephens. How much would be placed there — could you tell? 



Mr. Gallagher. No; it was a very indefinite amount; the natives 

 would take a handful or two and throw it on. 



Mr. Stephens. What would be the weight, if any, of the string or 

 twine ? 



Mr. Gallagher. That question was raised by Mr. Clark. I did not 

 see it, but Mr. Elliott told me that he and Mr. Hatton later put the 

 stri::g on the scales and that it did rot affect the scales at all; it did 

 not move them. The string, I believe, was 10 feet long. I did not 

 measure it, but I was told that. 



Mr. Stephens. Do you know what size twine it was, and the mate- 

 rial of it — was it cotton ? 



Mr. Gallagher. It was about as thick as this [indicating]; that is 

 about the same kind of string. 



Mr. Stephens. Soft jute ? 



Mr. Gallagher. Yes, sir. It may have been a little harder than 

 that, but not much. 



Mr. Stephens. You did not see it weighed, though ? 



Mr. Gallagher. No, sir. 



Mr. Stephens. You say that you investigated to some extent the 

 difference between the weight of the green hides and the weight of the 

 salted hides, as you have just described? 



Mr. Gallagher. In this way: Mr. Whitney, who had Mr. Lemb- 

 key's green weights, would call those off, and. he had to call two of 

 those off to make a bundle, and when the bundle was weighed it 

 showed a greater weight than the two individual weights of Mr. 

 Lembkey's green skins. 



Mr. Stephens. Does the salted skin weigh more than the green 

 skin? 



Mr. Gallagher. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Stephens. About how much? 



Mr. Gallagher. That varied. We have the figures here in the 

 report. 



Mr. Stephens. Did you estimate the percentage from the pounds 

 or the percentage from the ounces ? 



Mr. Gallagher. No, sir; I did not do that. 



Mr. Stephens. But you know they weighed more? 



Mr. Gallagher. Yes, sir. 



Mr. McGuire. Mr. Gallagher, you were not in the classified service 

 when you went up there ? 



Mr. Gallagher. No, sir. 



Mr. McGuire. Who selected you? 



Mr. Gallagher. The chairman of the committee. 



Mr. McGuire. You stated, I believe, you went only as an expert 

 stenographer ? 



Mr, Gallagher. Yes, sir. 



Mr. McGuire. You had never been on the islands before? 



