772 INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 



The Chairman. I would suggest that if this is to be gone over later 

 that we had better refresh your recollection. 



Mr. Elliott. Mine is perfectly clear. 



Mr. McGuire. I was going to look up the testimony and recur to 

 it a little later. 



Mi*. Elliott. That is the reason I made that experiment of weigh- 

 ing those skins on the islands. 



Mr. McGuire. You took the measurements of the skins ? 



Mr. Elliott. Yes. 



Mr. McGuire. At the same time you weighed those skins on the 

 islands ? 



Mr. Elliott. Yes. Just before we weighed them a measurement 

 was taken of the two skins, and then we weighed them immediately 

 afterwards. 



Mr. McGuire. What measurement did you take? 



Mr. Elliott. Just length, the orthodox length. 



Mr. McGuire. No breadth measure was taken ? 



Mr. Elliott. It is not necessary and would be a waste of time. 



Mr. McGuire. I asked you if it was done. 



Mr. Elliott. No; because it was not necessary and was a waste 

 of time; no one suggested it, even, at the time. 



Mr. McGuire. Can you tell the size and area of a sealskin by 

 taking the length alone ? 



Mr. Elliott. Tell the size ? 



Mr. McGuire. You can tell the size and area and all by taking the 

 length meauremont % 



Mr. Elliott. The area is something that amounts to little or 

 nothing definite without the length. You get the size by the length, 

 and the area then is indicated at once by this length of a properly 

 salted sealskin. 



Mr. McGuire. The weight is dependent upon two things? 



Mr. Elliott. Yes, sir; I admit that. 



Mr. McGuire. The size of the skin? 



Mr. Elliott. Y< s, sir. 



Mr. McGuire. And the amount of blubber left on the skin? 



Mr. Elliott. You are entirely right. 



Mr. McGuire. The size of a skin, you say, can always be deter- 

 mined by the lensrtM 



Mr. Elliott. Yes, of a properly salted skin. 



Mr. McGuire. And that is the extent that you went at that time ? 



Mr. Elliott. Yes. 



Mr. McGuire. To determine the size of the skin ? 



Mr. Elliott. Yes. 



Mr. McGuire. And when you speak of the measurement of the 

 skins in your testimony vou refer onlv to the measurement of the 

 length? 



Mr. Elliott. The size. 



Mr. McGuire. I say. when you speak of the size of the skins you 

 refer only to the length 1 



Mr. Elliott. Yes; and that governs the size. 



Mr. McGuire. And that was the only measurement you took? 



Mr. Elliott. Yes: that was the only one because it governed the 

 size absolutely in the London classifications. I will explain some- 

 thing right here so that vou can understand it. In the London 



