ALASKA. 
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Gold bullion, Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company. $707,017 
Gold and silver ore and bullion by other companies. 400, 000 
13,500 seal skins taken under the lease; 52,087 seal skins taken by sealing 
fleet; 10,000 seal skins taken by natives and others. 755* 5^7 
Furs shipped by Alaska Commercial Company. 348, 991 
Furs shipped by other parties, western Alaska. 90,000 
Other products not enumerated. 60, 000 
Total. 7,759,064 
Balance of exports above imports, $5,594,886. 
Among the furs may be mentioned those of the sea otter, the 
seal, the beaver, the silver and blue fox. the mink, and the marten. 
Mr. Petroff (Alaska, Its Population, Industries, and Resources, 
1884) says: 
In the regions inhabited by the sea-otter hunters and on the Pribilof Islands, 
a barrel of flour per annum is consumed for each man, woman, and child more 
than the average in civilized communities. Traders report that the demand for 
flour and hard bread increases annually, even among the tribes of the interior. 
The demand for tea, also, is steadily gaining, and the consumption of sugar is 
universal wherever it can be carried by the traders, but is especially large in 
those sections of Alaska (especially in the southeast) where the creoles and 
natives understand the manufacture of alcohol from sugar and molasses. Includ¬ 
ing the southeastern division, which is supplied chiefly from Portland, Oreg., 
and British Columbia, the annual shipment of flour may be estimated at not less 
than 10,000 barrels, or a barrel for every three individuals of its population. 
If to this are added 5,000 or 6,000 cases of hard bread, 1,200 chests of tea, 
and 2,500 barrels of sugar, it is seen that the trade with Alaska in these staples 
alone is assuming considerable proportions. The shipments of tobacco aggre¬ 
gated from 15,000 to 20,000 pounds. Of the value of the dry goods it is 
impossible to make an estimate, but it is safe to assume that it does not equal 
that of groceries or provisions. 
MAIL AND TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. 
Governor Knapp, in his report for 1892, says: “The mail con¬ 
tract with the Pacific Coast Steamship Company requires stoppage 
for receipt and delivery of mail by their regular passenger and 
freight steamers, two each month, at seven ports, viz: Kichkan, in 
Tongass Narrows, Loring, Wrangel, Douglas, Juneau, Killisnoo, 
