. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 437 sealing gaug into tliose lower grades of the division and putting bettermen up The loafers were usually men of influence with the church,and, strange as it may seem, with their own industrious townsmen, sothey were able to have their names generally placed at the top of thislist. Strictly speaking, this action of the agents of the company andGovernment in revising the list, was entirely in the right, but the nativeswere better satisfied with their old way of 1872-1874, for the reasonswhich I give in the citatio
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 437 sealing gaug into tliose lower grades of the division and putting bettermen up The loafers were usually men of influence with the church,and, strange as it may seem, with their own industrious townsmen, sothey were able to have their names generally placed at the top of thislist. Strictly speaking, this action of the agents of the company andGovernment in revising the list, was entirely in the right, but the nativeswere better satisfied with their old way of 1872-1874, for the reasonswhich I give in the citation above. This payment of 40 cents per skin taken by the natives coversnothing except the labor of driving the seals, skinning them, and help-ing the outside employees of the lessees to salt them in the salt extra work of bundling these skins for shii^ment was x)aid for bythe bundle—1 cent per bundle—so that a smart native could make $2per day while at this work. Then, when the ships arrived and sailed,the great and necessary labor of lighter
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