Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-08 | Page 3 | Whaling at Low Water Point

WHALING AT LOW WATER POINT Industry Drops From 680 Ships to 32 With Corresponding Cor-responding Drop in Oil Prices. New Bedford, Mass, Jan. 8. The decline In the whaling industry' has reached a point where it is no longer profitable to maintain a periodical devoted de-voted to its interests according to the publishers of the Whaleiuans' Shipping List, who today announced that this week's issue would be the last of that weekly journal. When the paper was pstablished in 1843 the number of vessels encagod in the whale fishery was (175. with an aggregate tonnage of 199,174 Of these ships 260 hailed from New Bedford and its sister port. Fair Haven, and 75 from Nantucket. Three years later high water mark in the industry was reached with 680 ships aggregating .1.10 x ,. TftJur nnlv 90 I'acr.lc with a total tonnage of 60.13 are engaged en-gaged in the search for whales. Great Business In 1851. In 1851 the whaling fleet brought to this country 428.070 barrels of sperm and whale oil aud 5.652,300 pounds of whale bone In 1914 with the pursuit of whale almost wholly confined to the Atlantic ocean, the oil brought home amounted to but 19,-L'70 19,-L'70 barrels Three vessels brought back from the Arctic 34,000 pounds of whalebone The highest price for sperm oil, reached during the civil war was 52.75 a gallon; last year's product sold at 45 to 48 cents. nn