The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-12-19

in facilities and ~workmen, as is witnessed by the
fact that all the extensive repairs on our San
Francisco traders are made in Honolulu, where
labor and timber are cheaper and imported ma
t@erials as cheap as in other ports. An instance
of the facilities and expedition had here, is
afforded by the Good Return, which came into
port leaking at the rate of Is 900 strokes per
day. She entered, was repaired and sent to sea
within four days, at an expense of but $500.
In obtaining seanen. stores, and recruits of
all kinds, better facilities have been given to
whalemen the past season than ever before. The
government duties and taxes under the new code
are heavy, but excepting these, no port can COM
pete with US as a recruiting depot for whalers.
Six whalers reported in our North Pacific List
have visited San Francisco this fall, being the
same number as in 1860, several of them having
gone there the second or third time, thus dis
proving the statement made by our co.emporarya
few weeks since. that whalers seldom or never
repeated their visits at that port. The truth is,
vessels will continue to go there, as masters of
ships that have done we'll have nothing to fear
from it, and if their men do run away, the ship
is the gamer, inasmuch as the absconder for
feits his claim in the proceeds of the voyage.
The Alta of a recent date, speaking of the over
anu ltItSEdpu, lLuc IeItIs W II DtHtHlS II Will
confer on shipping, both the whaling and mer-
camille interests
Among the advantages conferred on the business
world by the completion of the Atlantic and Pacific
Telegraph, those experienced by the shipping inter-
ests are perhaps destined to become the most important
of they are not already 80. The facility afforded TO
masters and c~onsignees of Atlantic port vessels to COM
municate Immediately with owners on the arrival Of
such vessels. and the frequently desirable nature Of
such communication, afford arguments in favor of
the great utility of the telegram too OhyiOuslv con-
elusive and selfevident to need elaboration. And in
regard to vessels visiting this port from British or
continental ports, the advantage is well nigh as great,
since steam has almost annihilated space between
Europe and America, and announcements of Liver
pool or Havre vessels at this port can now be made
and responded to within IA period little longer than
that required 10 unlade the vessel.
But IL IS not alone the ordinary mercantile
marine, the regular bearers Of cargues of mer-
chandise destined for this market, on which this
benefit is conferred. The whaling interests are as
deeply indebted TO the enterprise for the facilities
now presented, as any other. BY the advantage Of
now enjoyed, whaling vessels are
relieved of many of the drawbacks to the profitable
Of their labors which formerly beset them.
They are no longer compelled to make q distant port
the depot of their oil between seasons, or there await
Instructions, the transmission of which required
months, TO determine them in the disposition of their
cargoes. By running into this port, they now can
communicate with owners state the
relative advantages of selling in this market, or
transhipping by means of Eastern bound clippers,
and within n day or two receive instructions as to the
disposition of their cargoes, and their future course.
In many instances it will be found that cargoes can
DC mole probably disposed of here than by reship-
nent to the Atlantic side, either from this point or
he Sandwich Islands. The demand for oils for con-
sumption on this coast is by no means insignificant,
md, since the establishment of refining works, has
steadily increasing. A good market for whal-
ng products is %springing up, and has already realiz-
ID 10 many vessels salts factory returns. Here, too,
Whaling vessels can re6t more advantageOusly and
than at any other port in the Pacific, and,
indeed, it is the only one at which efficient repairs to
Iessels can be effected.
The benefits to be conferred by the telegraph
IN the whaling interests are rather imaginary
han real, as owners generally have full instruc-
ions awaiting the arrival of their ships, at the
,orts where they are expected to recruit, and the
correspondence would seldom be resorted to, if I
Respecting a market for products of the whale
shery, it will be a Icing time before San Fran
can offer the terms obtained in Honolulu. :
ne PRODUCTS OF the fishery are sperm and whale
il, bone, ivory, seal skins and furs. For all :
hese articles higher prices are paid here for b,
hipment to European and Australian markets ,
han are obtaiDable in San Francisco. For in !
lance, walrus teeth ivory was worth in that
only % cents while here it has commanded ,
81 to 50 cents throughout this season. The
ause of this is the fact that European and Aus 6
ralian orders for the purchase of these articles /
re sent to Honolulu and not to San Francisco, c
nd await the arrival of the fleet. Besides, the /
of the whale fishery constitute the best t
for those countries that can be desired.