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Show DAYS OF WHALING CCNC. "XcwfoimdlnnJ'fi cons'tvise whale fishery, of which ko much wa.i ox-pceied.-hns ntlerly t'ollnpsiM," fr!tc Consul Corneli3 at St. "John "Started about ton year; ngo, with modern steamers and equipment, tin llrt operators did so well that from ,.i single ship it grew lo 17. ,The re-'iiilt re-'iiilt win I he speely Wiling. oat of In herJs of gignntic piammalf. 1,000 of v.hicli vcre d's'royrd in n singlo year. Gradually, howevei, the catch fell off, n;id within the past year six or seven of the steamers steam-ers have been sold for similar work-on work-on tho British Columbia and Japanese Jap-anese coasts, while the compnnuM owning tliom have gono into liquidu-l liquidu-l ion? During the season of 3907 it is not expected that there will be more tjinn seven or eight whilcu operating in nil." |