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Show The Seal Fishery. Moro than if 1,000,000 worth of scuts linvo boon cupturcd by tho soul huntera. of St. .Johns, N. 1, within tho post six weeks. Tho catch tins been unprecedented, unprece-dented, and litis led to tho fitting out of many othor vessels for ttint industry. indus-try. Tho steamer Wolf was tho first to roturn with a full cargo. She loft port on Mnrcli "J nnd Btruck tho scuts on tho 11th, midway botwoen Qulrpon and Groas Island. On tho lath bolero bol-ero w killed 10,000 scuts, und on tho. 13th to tho 18th thoy took 18,000 moro on board and started for homo. Seals nro worth Sr'2.60 oach. Tho valuer, of tlio Wolf's cargo is $70,000. Slnco sho Wolf's arrival tho ltnngor hits come in with tho first cargo of tho seusjn. Sho had on board 38.000 souls, yulucd ut ovor ,$100,000. Sho was out nineteen days. Tho Walrus arrived noxt with li.OOO seals, her full capacity. Then came tho Noptuno with 30,000, tho Hoetor witk i 16,000, tho Esquimaux with 32,000,. ' tho Terra Nova with 31,000, tho Fill- ' con with '-'7,000, tho Wnngunrd wltli. 19,000, ttiu Kilo with 2D,l)U0, and tho. Panther with 1(1,000. Tlio lnlter vessel ves-sel lost 6,000 from hor decks in a . heavy swoll. In tho gulf thoro nro nt. flr' least n doon vessels, nearly all of which havo been heard from, roport- fAp ing oxcollont catches. aM It is thought thnt tho catch this. H your by vessels will oxoeod 130,000, 4H and to this Is to bo added tho shoro- l catch, which will probably nmount in 1 Newfoundland to botwoon 60,000 and i 70,000. When it is known that this Is- J nil dona insldo of six weeks it is a ro-markablo ro-markablo showing. . |
