Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Department of the Treasury. Special Agents Division.

Contributor:

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.

Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930.

Maynard, Washburn, 1844-

Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909.

Morris, William Gouverneur, -1884.

Petroff, Ivan, 1842-

Townsend, Charles Haskins, 1859-1944.

True, Frederick William, 1858-1914.

Brice, John J.

Stejneger, Leonhard, 1851-1943.

Series:

House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 55th Congress, 1st session, no. 92, pt. 1-4.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

55th Cong., 1st sess. House. Doc. ; no. 92, pt. 1-4

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bering Sea controversy.

Sealing--Alaska.

Sealing.

Fisheries--Alaska.

Fisheries.

Alaska--Economic conditions.

Alaska.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 v.) : ill. (part col., part fold.), ill., maps (part fold.), ports.

Place of Publication:

Washington : G.P.O., 1898.

Summary:

A survey of the economic resources of Alaska in the early territorial period of 1868 to 1895 including seal and salmon fishing, in particular in the Bering Sea and Pribilof Islands, and the condition of native peoples, as well as the operations of the Alaska Commercial Company. Includes annual reports of agents in charge of seal islands.

Contents:

v. 1. Reports on condition of seal life on the Pribilof Islands by special Treasury agents ... 1868 to 1895 ... by D.S. Jordan

v. 2. Reports on seal and salmon fisheries ... and correspondence between the State and the Treasury departments on the Bering Sea question ... 1895 to 1896, with comments on that portion thereof which relates to pelagic sealing by D.S. Jordan

v. 3. Reports by H.W. Elliott and Lieut. W. Maynard, U.S.N., on the fur-seal fisheries, etc., of the Pribilof Islands, and by Rev. S. Jackson on "Reindeer in Alaska" and "Education in Alaska," with comments on Elliott's and Maynard's reports by D.S. Jordan

v. 4. Reports by W.G. Morris, I. Petroff, C.H. Townsend, F.W. True, J.J. Brice and L. Stejneger on internal resources of Alaska and the fur-seal fisheries of the North Pacific Ocean, with comments on the reports of Townsend, True, and Brice by D.S. Jordan.

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

OCLC:

595266860