| Show 4 O WHALERS MAY COMPETE WITH BEEF I BY FREDERIC J HASKIN I I A A 1 T JOHNS ST 0 Dee Dec beef bee trust will soon have co from an d quarter Whale meat is coming on the market The nash flesh of these deep ea leviathans looks und and tastes SO s II like beer beef that the difference Is ise e arely arcely It Is HI so cheap that IL makes muke It ft necessary ary It Iti Itri i ri n be B oId Hd for tor II a ceRt ceet M pound and still fan a margin of profit There Is as meat on a seventy venty ton tUi tUiI I II O tat fat steers Th fod may be a little coar coarser r In but it is s claimed to be as ag nu flU a as beef The whale stations in Rye are the to at to saw save all portions of the sera ea TI Ister and b by so doing have doubled H value aluf Formerly the blubber was wasI II I aWRy away and then Inc carcaM carcass let et 1 rift but now the entire body Is including even the bones and l 1 oll it One of the these modern stations v HI all e or of tour four whales JH Ii hours having the oil ready for shipment In barrels barrel the m meat at In casks and th blood bones and refuse reduced to powder and In iii rocks This is J ry when the size sizer r J prey Is taken into consideration are frequent that measure feet long and it has been found flint the larger on ones will m alway weigh a l ton for ever every foot of their There ar are certain parts of at a whale that a arf rf out iO of proportion Al Although Although though its body and mouta are enOl eno IToUs Its eyes and throat are exceed ed Itma malL AI a matter 0 04 n various or organs n of a sulphur hale hal were eI hed r J ngue tipped th the scales cales at exactly 1 1 POUndS while the eye was barely half a pound In w weight The jaw F 1 n lie was twenty feet long And one side of III It weighed 1000 pounds The tongue bOiled separately produced foar barrels of oil Although tit wide enough to almost en wt a box ear car the throat Is so fK narrow that only the smallest parti of food tood caR can be swallowed hence the big creatures subsist altogether on tiny shrimps and little fishes Jonah and the Whale The fact that ht these monstrous fish fishba ba have Vt such small throats Is used by a great many people as an argument to toI I Imbat the Bible story about Jonah Lung Ing swallowed by the Whale How r there is one sperm hns an opening big ugh to accommodate even een larger ob j ts than the body of a man It is not to find ot of an octopus weighing several tons when the atom n Ih h of one of them Is dissected Any 1 whaler r tell you about the who fell feU overboard and was gob gobbled bpd bled up by a big sperm whale that hap Jt ned to be going that way It Is a tradition among these rough and ready seamen that a whale cannot keep to tobacco bacco juIce In its stomach so this quick chap began immedi Immediately tely to chew and expectorate Before the whale him up he had time to strike a makh and he solemnly swears that he saw arved upon one of the rIbs of the monster this legend Jonah B C The most valuable portion of the whale Is the blubber The outer layers of fat are stripped ff and boiled into oil A good sized specimen n 10 barrels Th This is oil Is utilized in soap making and in softening jute fibre Large quantitIes ot of It are used in e The whalebone the l ladies ear ar in theIr corsets comets comes from the gills gHis of this mighty creature The of those caught near New is not so flexible as that of f the ones taken farther north con consequently it Is not so valuable The bone of the Arctic denizen sells for a ton while that of the New is only worth The powder realized the treatment of the blood bones and refuse Is rich with ammonia and Is In demand by ot of fertilizer The rca rea son on the whalers ot of Iceland have not noten Jl en n able to save nil aU the parts of I their catch is because they kill him so tar far from the stations that the bodies are badly decomposed before they can tow them in The success of the Newfoundland companies In work workIng Ing up all portions ot of the monsters has bas made the 6 of taking them much more profitable strength of the Whale This year there thirteen corn com anies operating seventeen stations About 1200 people are employed in the industry Fourteen steamers patrol A 4 f zone which Is O n miles les long and Vii ilea wide When the whale is sighted the steamer gets within range and anda a harpoon hanoon Is shot Into its It vitals Just back or of the tho prongs ot of this there Is a bomb e explodes inside the body Although it may be mortal I Jy y wounded the big creature will make I off ocr pullIng the boat after It Its Ii strength is astonishIng It will wUI pull a I The Te Finback Whales Caribou Killed the First Shot at Hundred Yards i ril n H S Se 1 l li lp i i I i p p e i T 1 k F n 4 t I I e 4 a 67 Q F 4 x w i i ir Q 4 I c I 4 t 4 I 4 h 4 4 4 ti r 4 4 4 4 fi foot through the wa water water ter at the of six knots an hour although a en lne Is turned on full speed in the opposite direction There is no danger of a boat being pulled on the rocks under such circum circumstances stances because us when a whale is hit it makes straight for the deep sea There is no telling how long themon the mon monster ster could keep up the stroke for or its struggles are generally by a see sec ond nd shot withIn an hour or two It is then pulled to the surface and air is pumped Into Its stomach in order to tomake make it float Over Oer 1700 whales of various kinds were caught In the New waters this year While it is difficult to strike an average on ac account account count of the varying sizes of the catch and the fluctuation In the price of oil oila a full grown specimen ought to yield its captors at least on Oil is low at the present time When It regains Its usual price the value quoted above will be doubled The industry Is being worked for tor all that it Is worth The Harmsworth Lumber Deal There is quite an extensive timber belt in the of the island A com coin comPAny PAny known an the Newfoundland Timber Estate composed mostly or of capitalists owns 2400 square irIles of pine spruce and fir The holdings of this concern include about of the entire supply An etus has be 1 given to the lumber business budness bY b a aale ale just made to Mr rth proprietor of the thc London I 11 and owns or controls a about out other publications The rho English pub publisher isher uses about tons of print every week weak and he Is 15 going to I his own mill and fir make good paper and he has bought 1400 acres of this kind of Umber timber which will yield from fifty to cords to the acre It requires just a fraction over oer a cord of at atwood wood to make a ton of vaDer The trees are small and stand on the ground very thick The tract AIr Ir Harmsworth has purchased will not be exhausted during his Jils life ure time ot or for tor several generations after him because this kind of tImber r replenishes itself and It can be cut over and over again He paid a shade less than fifty cents an acre for the timber and the mills and other Improvements which he takes over will make the ton re represent resent about a half million He expects to install a pulp null mill and paper plant which will cost about and before he gets through with the deal his Improve Improvements ments will doubtless stand him In for It will be about two years before paper can be pro In Newfoundland and the new wIll give employment to 2 people The natives will be given the preference when laborers are selected but If they do not prove satisfactory labor will be Imported from Finland Mr Harmsworth estimates estimates ates that by manufacturing his own print paper lIe he will ill reduce the cost of it by b half He Is authority for tor the statement that It is surprising why th the American publishers who consume such enormous quantities or of paper and who cooperate In so many other 41 4 4 1 4 1 4 t I t l lV 1 i V 8 I 4 1 4 i 4 t 1 7 4 T 4 1 c r 1 l I 4 I Ii 4 j t 1 1 tL a Lt 5 14 V Vj o y j 4 1 4 h t 6 I r ris o t is t 11 o 4 A Coast Settlement of i i ways was do not make their on print Beginning to Export Lumber has always imported lumber until a few years ago when It Ii began to supply ly its own oan needs Last year it entered the market as aa exporter sending several million f et to Argentina ana a larger quan thy Uty to England The porto shipment I called and it Is located cn n the northern coast of the island The distance this thih port to Liver Liverpool pool Is only 1300 miles When hen the lumber was Inaugurated In Jt it was found that some difficulty would be experienced In se securIng securing curIng labor because almost the en male mal population of the Island has fishing in summer and re remaIned remained idle during the Winter How However However ever no trouble was experienced In proc Procuring m n Many lIany were glad get something to do during the dull season and not nt a few were ready to tov v abandon band on the sea for or steady work on onland onland land S Fishermen get paid but a year the they have good luck they may Pad themselves In debt to the mer merchant chant hant and In that event they get no noray ray fay at aU all To go Into the lumber camps and get wages every week was a great thing by men some of whom had never handled IToney at all The manager told me inc about putting one fellow to ork In his camp He had a wIfe six chil children I dren and no money The company I him a cabin and furnished It on onI T The e house and contents were valued clued at nineteen dollars In nine I I the fellow had worked his I I way clear and had six dollars coming tv to him There was som difficulty In getting betting him to accept th cash for it i was the first lie he had ever had He was wasat at raid there was some mistake This man yas as years or of age HIs I was doubtless a case one that could not be quoted as being true of If the majority of the population but It is indeed a backward country where even rare instances of such ignorant Poverty can be found I A Scarcity of Up to the present time Ume Newfound Newfoundland land has not produced mineral wealth I In any great quantity The iron and mine at Belle Bene island Is the most moat noteworthY property on the Island and aside from this fact enjoys the distinction distinction I tion of beIng located on the most east eastern ern em point of land on the North Amen Amerl rean can continent The veins have not been H followed for any great distance us as yet et but the indications ar are that the they will rup un under Ier the sea like the mines on the coast ol o Nova Scotia whIch extend out outward outward ward for several miles under the bed of the ocean The Belle Belie island mine itself is making a most excellent show showing showIng ing turning out nearly a million tons tonsa a year but there are no other proper properties properties ties to compare with it or to swell the output About 1000 men are employed h here rc but they are and rather uncertain because every time there Is a good catch or of fish re reported reported ported the they all want t go to sea again A large deposit af talc of a quality has recently been uncovered It is used in the of tal talcum talcum cum powder as well ai 31 a tiller filler for glazed paper It Is so soft that it can b be whittled with an ordinary knife In Inthe Inthe the show windows of several stores in St Johns there are some Borne crude pieces ot of statuary which have been carved caned from blocks or of it The greater portion of Newfoundland has not been pros prospected prospected for because of the in inaccessibility accessibility of the country countr There are areno areno no roads or trans trails through the interior and ana Is exceedingly difficult on account of the rough character or of orthe the land and a dense growth of under 4 4 Co brush Even the coal that Is co consumed on the railroad and in other Industries Is Imported from Nova Scotia and Eng England land The Reid The major p portion of oC aU all pUblic d de In Newfoundland has been lone done b by H G Reid and his three sons I held EId is 18 a Scotch railroad contractor v ho 10 has put through several notable his ventures here He bunt built a portion of the Southern Pa Pac PaCific c nc route west of San Antonio T He constructed the hoariest part ort of the Canadian Pacific line Lake Superior and put the lAg tig Lachine bridge arross aros tile the St Law Lawrence rence at ll He secured a con from the of Sea e to construct a railroad the island front from St t Johns tt to Port aux Basque B Before ort he completed I he entered mo into negotiations to se seure secure cure ure the operation of it after the work was as an ani was given at aL bonus or of of land per mile The government soon got sic sick of Its bar bargain gain tm and instituted litigation to re recover over cover the ground end secure more fa terms The Tte history or of the pro longed fight between the promoters i nd the government would fill a large sized volume All sorts forts of trades have i taken place The railroad which cost costI I about was as sold to Reid or and then another gp gor upon coming Into power took It back again I I Every time Reid r he hed d damages and ets m in the of sone new He Heno no Jias s the of operating the I mains owns eight steamers Ae e uses in his hi coastal service the r Jock at St Johns be belongs to him himlie lie tins has the electric light plant and street railway In the capital besides the express company and the telegraph lines In addition to all this he owns acres of land in Ce fee simple SimP Ie and has a ninetynine year Umbel timber lease on acres more The ora orators tons tors of the party opposed to Reid a that he wants ever everything thing in the island but the grave e yards and ald they work ork the people up to signing peti petitions Hons against him Everything In New Newfoundland Newfoundland is secured by petition and lenny sign these papers who arE ar only able to judge their meaning by what they hey are told ReId says gays the poor devils e ns would sign a petition to lynch the king if IC someone had the nerve t SS it Has Millions Invested It is a dIfficult matter to get at the thea a actual facts of the quarrel between Reid eid and the government but it is certain that he has invested more I noney in the country than the ers ens ever had or doubtless ever will IHle It must not be Inferred from the foregoing InvoIce of Reids property that it was an all th gilt gift of Newfound Newfoundland ew land His steamers cost him a L million He had to build his dock out of his I own pocket and his power plant and andI I street railway at as well He says his en enI I I on the whole are just be beI I ginning to pay interest on the invest nent The land he holds is not worth very pry much at present and a large por port t of If may never be worth anythIng The rail railway offers a ti most ent of the sort be aus the passenger revenues are ir double 1 ira rot for freight The may erh some from the situation b the fast that their govern meat IS not the only or that has hal to pay well vf for Us Its railway develop development nent ment Too The Canadian Pacific au and th t nion lire t tI These pioneer promoters Ina doll olle ct t tIt I It a rather high price for tor their services but ut the they open ope up a country and make I it for aU all of that In he t few Y IUS lan ot nay expect t tJ t I upon whatever l r ma may pees A Sportsmans Paradise I A constantly Increasing source of o revenue to the Ury of Newfound land Is the t tron hUtt bunts n The caribou Is round found here in 11 I ot of his glory It I said ti Co t te e the th easiest place l In I the Uie world to get a pair ot of borne born The animals ate are seen browsing by people on the train ani they are so 80 nu f Gus that one ODe tells or of seeing by actual count in one day Al AI that ay have been heen a big da day t for this particular sportsman there tB Is no reason why hy The he most In inexperienced flamed nimrOd would not get his bis 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