Show WHALES IN aalt LAKE two whales placed in the ake alave a lure amily intelligent newspaper readers have not forgotten the inauguration fifteen years ago by mr james scientific english of whale industry salt lake As considerable lime was required for the development of the subject has passed out of the mind but it has by means been loi naturalists natura lists or capitalists in terea ted in the whale fishery the whale is the largest anil probably the longest lived animal they have been known to grow to feet in length and age yeara it is a mammal or in other words suckles its young the project of mr wickham was greatly assisted by this fact foi the difficulty that would attend the obtaining of whale effs in the deep seas is at once apparent it was only necessary to obtain a pair of thalea in order to begin the propagation animals of under domestication the southern or australian whale was selected as the beet suited to the great salt lake the part of two years were occupied off the coasts of australia by a sent especially for the purpose in continued efforts to capture the young whales without injury the feat however was at least accomplished and the beasts each about thirty five feet long were shipped to san francisco in 1873 in tanks built expressly for them fifty tanks of spa water accomplished their overland shipment to insure plentiful supplies of the natural element mr from london in person to superintend the planting of his leviathan pets he selected a small baa near the mouth of bear river connected with the main water by a shallow strait half a mile wide across this be built a wire fence and in aide the pen so formed he turned the whales loose after afe minutes inactivity di sported themselves in B lively manner spouting wafer as in mid ocean but as if taking in by instinct or intention the cramped character of their new home they suddenly made a bee line for deep water and shot through fence as if it had been made of threads in twenty minutes they were out of sight and the chagrined mr stood gazing helplessly at the bia salt water if great salt lake were in asid it would be called a bea if is five mues long thirty to forty wide so it is easy to perceive bow redi ly the whales could vanish from sight though the owner was of course disappointed and doubtful of results he left an agent behind him to look after hia floating property six mouths later mr Wick hams representative came upon the whales fifty mile from the bay where they had broken away and from that time to the present they have been observed at intervals by him and the watermen termen wa who alv the lake spouting and playing With inthe last few days however mr wickham cabled directions to make careful inspection aud the de and the agent followed the whales tor five successive days and nights discovering eliat the original air are now sixty et in ignath and followed about by a school of beveral hundred young varying in length from three to fifteen feet ane schema is a surprising and complete sand mr wickham has earned the thanks of mankind catching whales in great salt lake ana following hat business on the dang erous greenland coast are two quite different thinks the enormous value 0 shenew industry can be better ampre remembering that f h ale produces twenty tons of pure oil exchange |