Show whalebone worth millions A century ago when whalebone was worth no more than ten cents a pound i few vessels brought any home from 1844 to the outbreak of the civil war the output averaged avei aged about pounds annually the greatest for one year being pounds in 1853 and the price increased to one dollar a pound since 1860 there has been a steady decrease in the output the total amount of oe whalebone landed in america in the course of the nineteenth century exceeded pounds worth at the present market valuation about a sum that would make the possessor one on e of the richest men in the world it not the richest of all |