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Show WHALEBONE FACTORIES. Whoro tho Cmdo Dono la Prepared for tho Market Tim First Tnetory Kstshllnlinl In Snii rriiclrn, tltlifrs Will l.octtl In the Intern Htte-An Impotlsnt Inrtatlrj. The estnbllshroent of tho whaling station nt Monterey bay will, it Is expected, ex-pected, Increnso the demand tor skilled labor cinploxed In tills eityjln the man nfaetiii e of w halcboue. T hln is looked upon bj tho Merchants, association as another ludlenliuii of Roml tlme for California, and tho whaling Industrj on t his, coast will b fostered. In Itself, the whaling trade Is eonshl ernliln at this port, but Kh Increawi menus more tolaudsnienand themnnu-tncturinjr themnnu-tncturinjr IntercstH of the city thnn Is geueinlly known. It menus that within with-in the nest few ycats San Prnnclseo will become not, only the whaling ixirt of the world, but nbo the center of the uhalebone inaiiufacturlng Interest. Already a w hah. bone factory has been established In tills citj.nndliefoivlong the six other factories in the lnlted States now located In the eastern states will undoubtedly be looted to this city. Tbl priiHilllon Is almost self-evident when It Is coiislilerisl that at piesent (lie lths of nil the whalebone whale-bone lmmufaetiiicd In America Is i.liipHil from this iH,rt across the continent con-tinent bcfoio it Is prepaicd for the riu: hot. New lledford, once the grcntwhiillng port of Hi" win Id. iIoch not send out mote I Ium one or t" fldl'" "f,,'r l"0 h- Indian now, und nil the itst of the trade is teiitcied at tills pott. It wai Ibis fact which lulled Intn.ex1"tenie the wlinlebonn factory nnd Hint will 1 ilng other factories of the same hind to this city. The pure of this commodity Is on th" Inc iciim', if nnj thing, though the wlinl-Inir wlinl-Inir Itulilhtiy llself has fallen Into com-pniallicly com-pniallicly InhlgnUhnnt proportions Many rellned nib lmi" )een ftrtiml to tnke the pl.ieo of spt rm oil, but no substitute sub-stitute baa cter been found forwhnle-biiiiH. forwhnle-biiiiH. Many efforts hate Ikm-ii made to Und Mime MihMuucc that tould be used in I ho plneo of linehone, and mnn esiKilinenlKon t minus metals and sub i lunicb hate been itinife, but to mi purpose, pur-pose, Por coihetu and ill ess lKidlces.no other suhsliiiiin will aiiMicr. Nnthinir de Ih m) jillahlc and so lasting ut the fame tliuu, It Is not generally known, but It Ik n fact, that whalebone may be used otcr I and oter npaln. nnd U practically in- I Ustruetllde, When lient out of hnis' It can be sttalghtcKcdbt first slenmlng nnd then placing It under pressure. Aside fioni the rt It plays in wnnmu'o npiwiel, 111- chief urn is for whips. The piotcs of rleapluc and do lug the erud whalebono when flist tnkcu from th shlw Ih Intercktliig. It is kerublie.l and drrnehed with fresh wnturwhen iililiiiided nt tho jnrd, and then stood up iu bunches to dry in the miii. Dow ii nt the yards of tho Pncllle Btcam Whiillnc coiupapy at tho Totrern tho strnngc who iwmih the tinels unlondlntr 'roui distnnce and beholds the washed strip of bono stacked tin todrj. is tcry like ly to mistake t for Kmie rank growtt of weeds op t tiles. When thoroughly dried it Ih bundled up nnd tnken to the factory on C'nllfui iila stieet, or ihippcd east to tho fu tores, thcie to be still further hcmKiI and dressed, then steamed and jtollslu-'l ond rut Into marketable strips Pro"' first in Inst n good many men are p , (jillrcd to bundle the bono produit that in lnoupht to this portbj ilie whnllnc NCisels, niil when It U considered thai ' cnehoneof tliLkt; tassels Ismnnncd and I invUinncd hertheieal lmpoitnuceii( tlio cntlro Industry is seen to bo pot at nil Insignificant to tho materia) wf. fare of CHlifornln.-San Frnnulco Cull, p |