Show 35 the vhales loose After a few minutes inthemselves in a lively manner they disported activity water as in mid ocean but as if taking in by spouting instinct or intention the cramped character of their new home they suddenly made a bee line for deep water and shot through the wire fence as if it had been made of threads In twenty minutes they were out of sight Though the enterprising owner was of course disappoint ed and doubtful of the results he left an agent behind him to look after his floating property Six months later Mr Wickham’s representative came upon the whales fifty miles 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 who ply the lake spouting and playing Within the last few days however Mr Wickham cabled directions to make careful inspection and report the developments and the agent followed the whales for five successive days and nights Discovering that the original are now sixty feet in length and followed about by pair a school of several hundred young varying length from three to fifteen feet The scheme is a surprising and complete success and Mr Wickham has earned the thanks of mankind that Catching whales in Great Salt Lake and following business on the dangerous Greenland coast are two quite different things The enormous value of the new industry a can be better appreciated by remembering that single whale produces twenty tons of pure oil The writer has been unable to find any other reference to he turned the alleged school of whales fabrication It is of course a complete |