2 BULLETIN 1423, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
about four chief centers: (1) The Kotzebue Sound country, (2) 
Seward Peninsula, (3) about Norton Sound, and (4) in the Kusko- 
kwim Kiver basin. 
In addition to the numbers in present herds, it is estimated that 
about 125,000 have been killed for food and clothing. The average 
gross increase per annum is between 33 and 45 per cent, and 
the average fawn crop runs between 50 and 60 per cent, although 
the better-handled herds often attain 70 per cent and sometimes as 
Eskimo allotments 
White man Allotments 
I'--:-'--: I Unoccupied grazing areas 
Fig. 1. — Distribution of reindeer herds and available range in Alaska, the figures indi- 
cating the approximate number of reindeer in each section. Occupied areas are 
usually less than one-third stocked 
much as 90 per cent. The location of herds and the distribution of 
reindeer and range in Alaska are shown on the accompanying map. 
(Fig. 1.) 
Several small refrigerating plants (pi. 2, fig. 2) and two cold- 
storage barges were operating on the coast in 1924, and since 1918 
shipments of carcasses have been made every year from Alaska to 
the States. The natural cold-storage facilities of Alaska have been 
availed of to some extent, and during the winter of 1924-25 one 
chamber large enough to hold 100 carcasses was excavated in the 
