The value of skins from the Unalaska district during the year 183 (at which time fur-seal skins were scarce) is illustrated by the following table' compiled by the same person: 2 6, 501 Tikhmenief publishes two main tables ? showing the numbers of all furs exported from the Russian American Colonies between the years 1821 and 1862. Following are the data contained in the first table, which covers the period from 1821 to 1842: Sea-otters .. 25, 416 Bears 5, 355 Sea-otter tails 23, 506 | Lynxes 4, 253 Fur-seals 458, 502 1, 561 Whalebone. poods.. 33, 455 Weasels.. 15, 481 Land-utters 29, 442 Sables 15, 666 Foxes (brown, gray, and red)... 90, 322 Musk rats 4,491 Walrus ivory poods.. 201 Beavers .do....162, 034 Castoriums -poods.. Blue foxes 69, 352 Following are the data contained in the second table, which covers the period from 1842 to 1862: Sea-otters 25, 899 Wolves 24 Foxes 77, 847 Muskrats 6, 570 Blue foxes.. 54, 134 Wolverines. 10 Fur-seals. 372, 894 Minxes.. 872 Beavers. 157, 484 Castoriums poods.. 6 103 Land-otters 70, 473 Walrus ivory 7765 Lynxes 6,927 25, 797 Sables 12, 782 Paws 40, 588 Bears 1, 893 5124 do.. During the years 1863-1867 there were exported from the Russian American Colonies fur-seals to the number of 198,718.8 1 Page 83. This anthor explains at length the causes of the diminution of seal life during the period concerning which he wrote. . Tikhnenief, Vol. I, p. 327, and Vol. 11, p. 221. $ Tenth Census Report of the United States, Report on the the Population, Industries, and Resources of Alaska, p. 61. See, generally, this report for greater details as to the whole of the foregoing. 8 Recapitulation of the foregoing as to fur-seals erported between 17 13 and 1867. 1743-1820 (Berg, table 1) 2. 167, 010 182-1812 (Tiklueniet 458.92 1813–1862 (Tiklunevief) 372, 394 1863-1867 (Tenth ('ensus) 198, 718 Fur-seal skins taken from the Pribilof Islands between the years 1868 and 1891. 1868. 1869. 1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. 1874. 1875.. Number 19. MO 1878.. Number. 98,923 1888. Xumber 99, 733 100,395 99, 890 100,996 99, 116 99.937 6 21, 238 1 13, 473 Extract from Report on the Resources of Alaska, published by the Bureau of Statistics of the l'nited States Treasury Department, 1890. A brief estimate of the value of permanent improvements in Alaska has been compiled from such sources as could be made available. No attempt at even approximate assessment has ever been made. Real estate can hardly be said to exist in a country as yet without provision for acquiring title to anything but mining claims. Estimated ralue of permanent improrement in Alaska. Invested in gold and silver mines and wills.. $1,500,000 30,000 1, 800,000 200,000 130.000 100,000 350,000 4, 110,000 A very interesting summary of the value of products obtained from Alaska from the time of its purchase to the year of 1889 will serve to elucidate the value of this vast territory which we acquired for the paltry sum of $7,200,000, and which has returned over $60,000,000 within twenty-three years. The value of products of the whale fishery has been omitted from this summary as belonging more properly to San Francisco and New Bedford. During the time covered by this statement the l’nited States Treasury has drawn $.5,95.),.735.07 from the same source, and on the large proportion of fur-seal skins which have been returned dressed and yed to this country a duty of 20 per cent has been received. For reasons alreally given, this total only represents the skins of which records werk.pt, which recorıls, especially in early times, were very imperfect. ? Thomas F. Morgall, Vol. II, p. 63. 5 For this and succeeding years down to 1889, inclusive, see Max Heilbronner, Vol. II, pp. 117, 167. Charles J. Goff, Vol. 11, p. 112. Value of products obtained from Alaska from the time of its purchase to the year 1890. Fur-seals (total). $31, 557, 392 14, 908, 938 6, 439, 797 460, 808 2,950, 236 3, 741, 550 60, 058, 721 17 REVENUE DERIVED FROM THE ALASKAN SEAL HERD. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 10, 1892. Sir: In reply to your request of the 8th instant I have the honor to trausmit herewith a statement of the revenue derived from the lease of the islands of St. Paul and St. George, Alaska, from 1871 to 1891, inclusive. Respectfully, yours, CHARLES FOSTER, Secretary. Hon. JOHN W. FOSTER, Department of State. Statement of the revenue derired by the Government of the United States from the lease of the islands of St. Paul and St. George, Alaska. 1 It will be seen by reference to the statement' sworn to by Joseph Ullmann and others, furriers, of New York City: First: That upon a catch of 100,000 seals at the Pribilof Islands, about 70,000 have, after dressing and dyeing in London, been annually, during the last ten years, returned to the United States. Second: That the average value of each skin so returned was $25. The total value of skins so imported would therefore be, during ten years, $17,500,000. The customs duty received therefrom by the United States Govern. ment is 20 per cent of this sum, or, for ten years, $3,500,000; and it is within bounds to say that for the past twenty years the above-mentioned duty amounted in all to $5,000,000. DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT. Pages. Correspondence of the years 1822–1825 relative to ukase of 1821, and to the treaties of 1824 and 1825 132-152 Correspondence between the United States and Great Britain relative to the seizure of British sealing vessels in Bering Sea in 1886 ayd 1887.. 153-163 Correspondence relative to proposed international measures for the protection of fur-seals (1887-1888.).. 168-194 Correspondence relative to and growing out of the seizure of British sealing vessels in Bering Sea in 1889 August 24, 1889, to January 22, 1890)... 195-203 Correspondence relative to proposed international measures for the proof fur-seals--continued-(February 10, 1890, to June 27, 1890) 204-223 Correspondence relative to the jurisdictional rights in Bering Sea formerly possessed by Russia and transterred to the United States by the treaty of of 1867 (Mr. Blaine's note of June 30, 1890).. 224-235 Correspondence relative to Great Britain's willingness to enter into a con vention for the protection of fur-seals (Juve 30, 1890, to July 19, 1890)... 236-242 Correspondence relative to the jurisdictional rights in Bering Sea formerly possessed by Russia and transferred to the United States by the treaty of 1867—continued—(August 2, 1890, to April 14, 1891).. 242-298 Correspondence relative to the modus rivendi of 1891 and to the negotiations for arbitration (April 20, 1891, t9 February 8, 1892) 298-350 Correspondence relative to the modus vivendi of 1892 (February 9, 1892, to March 26, 1892). 351-364 131 |