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Show U.S. TREASURY MAKING MONEY ON SEALSKINS WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. (United Press) The department of commerce com-merce has found that by simply using us-ing a different color dye in finishing finish-ing seulskins from the government owned Pribiloff Isands their value can be doubled. At the annual sale at St. Louis in October, when $470,000 worth of skins were sold, 1,845 which had been dyed a rich chestnut brown brought $51,72 per skin, contrasted with $29,95 for those which were dyed the customary black. ! iiie iieT" lye is an American in-i in-i vention and the finishing of the skins was an experiment which has proved successful, according to Secretary Sec-retary Hoover. Tiie1 process is knowii only to gover.'Uiient ttieinists and the finishing was do'6 (if their direction. H The brown sealskin coat made from the government iiides has made 1 its appearance and is jn- great de-g de-g mand. It is likely that next year a larger proportion of tho Pribiloff ' kill will be finished in the Bhades. j) "Another feature of the recent I sales," Secretary Hoover said, "was S the offering 1,000 sealskins in salt. B ; This was done to test out tho asser-Vj asser-Vj tion frequently made (hrough the . press and in congress that the sale '; of raw undyed skins wonll bring larger" net returns to the govern-' govern-' ment tVin their sale in fiuMfed form. Tfrt-sp raw skins realized an average of ?7.00. ' "The cost of dyeing and finishing ; skins is approximately $5.:;8 so-that so-that the net realization to lhe government gov-ernment from the sale of finished ' skins was $.1.55 per skin higher Mian for those sold in raw slate. This appears to me to answer fordo- ; ly the persistent agitation that skins should ho Mold in flu. p;i!t. The number of skins Hint will j he taki'n din ing ilic prcsonr season will he approximately ID.IKK). The sealherd which is l hi- property ot the cuwriinii-nt shows tl pfnriy In-j In-j crease and is now est imtileil to In I : about CtlT.OOO. as compared' to I 1 m) when the government took- : I .control of ihe Pribiloff Islands." It. |
