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Show WHALEB0NEFACT0MES. Whoro tho Orudo Bono Is Proparod for tho Markot, Th Flrtt rrtory Eatabltihad In Kan rraneUro, Othari Will He Located In the Eastern State An Important Induatry. Tho establishment of tho whaling station nt Monterey boy will, It is ex-ticcted, ex-ticcted, Increase the demand for skilled labor employed In this city lu the manufacture man-ufacture ot whalebone. This Is looked upon by the Merchants' association ns another Indication of good times for California, nnd tho whaling Industry on this coast will hafostcrcd. In Itself, the, whaling tradn Is consid erable at this port, but Its incroaro means more to landsmen and the manufacturing manu-facturing Interest of the city Uinn Is Kcnernlly known. It means thnt within with-in the next few yonr-i San Praiiclsco will become not only tho whaling port if the world, butnlto the center of the whalebone manufacturing Interest. Already a whalebono factory haslicen established Ju this city, nndheforolong tho six other factories In the UnlU-d States now located In tho eastern slut4s will undoubtedly be moved to this cltj-. This pro)osllion is almost self-evident when It Is considered thnt nt prt-sent flve-slxths of all the whalebone whale-bone manufactured In America Is shipped from this port across tho continent con-tinent before It is prepared for the market. New Hcdford, once the great whaling -ort of tho world, does not send out iiloie than one or two ships nftcr the levlnthnu now, nnd nil the rest of tho trndo fs centered at this port. It was this fact which called into existence the whnlcbono fnctory nnd thnt will briug other fnctorles of tho same kind to this city. The price of this commodity Is on thn Increase, It anything, though the whaling whal-ing Industry Itself has fallen Into comparatively com-paratively Inslgalflcaut proportions. Many refined oil? havT been found to take the place of sperm oil, but no substitute sub-stitute has ever been found for whalebone, whale-bone, Many efforta havo been made to find koiho substance that could be used In tho place of whalebone, nnd many experiments on various metals and cub-stances cub-stances hnvc bem made, but to no purpose. pur-pose. Tor corsets end dress bodices, no other substance will answer. Nothing else is so pliable and so lasting at the same time, It Is not generally known, but It Is n fact, that whsltbonn may 1ms used over and over ngnln, nnd Is practically Indestructible. In-destructible. When lwnt out of shape It can be straightened by flrstnteamlng and thru placing It under pressure. Aside from the part it plays In woman's apparel, Itt chief use Is for whips. Tho process of cleaning and drying the crude whalebone when first taken from the ships la Interesting. It Is scrubbed nnd drenched with fresh water when unloaded at the yard, and then stood up In bunches to dry In the sun. Down nt the yards of tho Pacific Slcum Whaling company at th Tolrero tho stranger who pecs the vinels unloading from a distance uud beholds the washed strips of bone stacked up to dry, Is very likely like-ly to mistake It for bobo rank growth, oi weeds or tules. When thoroughly dried It Is bundled up and taken to the factory on California Califor-nia street, or shipped eat to tho factored, fac-tored, there to b still further corapett nnd dressed, then steamed and polished and cut tpto marketable strips, From first to last a good many men are required re-quired jo handle tho bono product that brought to this port by tho whaling vessels, and when It Is considered that each one, ot thesa vessels Uuiauned and provliion9d hethe real Importances! the rnllre Iniluttry In teen to be not at all lujignifirsntto tho material welfare wel-fare of Coll(o;nta, jarj Jfrprjcleco fall, |