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Show Whalebone Worth Millions. A century ago, when whalebone was worth no more than ten cents a pound, fow vessels brought any homo. From 1844 to tho outbroak of tho civil war tho output averaged about 2,800,000 pounds annually, the greatest for one year being 5,692,300 pounds In 1853, and tho prlco increased to one dollar a pound. Since 1860 thero has boon a steady decrease in tho output. The total amount of whalebone landed In America lu tho course of the nineteenth nine-teenth contury exceeded 90,000,000 pounds, worth at tho present market valuation about $450,000,000, a sum that would make tho possessor ono ot tho richest men in the world, It not tho rlchost of all. |