The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-20
revival OF the
WHALING INDUSTRY
recent Good Luck of Som,
New England Whale
bone Seekers.
GOOD CATCHES MADE
10 Less Than e,779 Barrels Of sper,
Taken by Vessels Cruising in At
Iantic Alone in Less Than
Six Months.
GOOD CATCHES
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
Thar sh' bio-o-ws!" The ancient
call, trumpeted by leathasn lungs from
cloud aspiring crows nests" rings
anew Der all the time honored atlantic
whale grounds AS OF yore, the New
England copper bottoms come sllor-
ing hon1eward, bearing fat freight OF
"sparn" and ivory from far southern
seas. Again is profit accruing, long
deemed GnreAllnerative, for he Ply
steter family Ras multiplied apace III
recent years AID sperm whaling is coIa-
ieS TO OF its accord.
With the exception of the schooner
john II. Manta of Neutrality-suspicious.
months at sea on her maiden voyage
not one OF the whaling vessels now sail
ing from New England ports is less
tilan tWenty-tWo years old, while many
of the got We're built for other work.
The Ellen A. swift, twenty-five years
old, and the Pearl Nelson, twenty-three,
were codfislaerinen originally; the Abel
Ia Chase, tWenty-nine, was a mackerel
catcher; The Charles H.. Hodgdon and
Mary Il. Simmons, forty years each.
and the Eleanor b. Conwell, torty-tive,
| We're Grand Bankers, while the Pedro
Narela, forty-eight years old, was a
revenue cutter.
OF the tiny Atlantic feet of the pres
ent, two We're constructed in the Sos.
five in the 'I9s, five in the Cos, six in the
SOS two in the '4Gs, while the bark am
ton, patriarch of the whaling fleets OF
the world, made her first courtesy to
Father Neptune away back in 1856
siXty-Mine years ago.
All engaged in the pursuit are we'll
preserved and in fine fettle, however,
and good for many more years of SIM
liar service, and the splendid success
achieved by the mass during the last
Three years presages the revival of the
work and the speedy enlistment OF
more, perhaps newer, bottoms.
Small Vessels Lucky.
Some startling lucrative oyage
have marked the rogress of the BUSH
Canton, the Sunbeam and others OF
the older ships have excelled their best
previous records in point of phenorn-
enally rich cargoes brought home to
swell the bank account of owners and
officers. Even the smallest Of TIA
schooner class have struck luck" and
the renewed spectacle of lone whalegs
boiling" here and there owe all tlla
track of sea from the Azores south TO
Walfisch bay, west coast of Africa, re-
minds OF the palmy days of the Amer
ican Whale fishery, when "spouts" We're
legion in all the western cean.
Eleanor b. conwell. That craft left
Fayal, where she had landed her pre-
vious catch, early in October, 1908, to
CRUISE SpQlll, Spdilill41.
cane that swept the Azores October 9
caught her in it's track and stripped
her of all boats. etc. driving her TIC
Cape de Verde to report. Obliged to
proceed to st. Kits, West Indies, to
procure now boats and repair, she did
not resume whaling until March, when
she was rushed north to the Hatteras
grounds. She found whales there, and
in twenty-seven days after sighting
her first spout" she was homeward
N-...1 rIl III 81 AYo-, Ty@I-
ford june % with 400 sperm and decks
still bearing traces of the last cut"
the last whale having been taken only
four days prior to arrival.
The bark Canton. whose sixteen
months voyage ending septembers
ord equaling the hest of the palmy day
voyages, garnered nightly among the
whale herds south during the voyage
Just ended. 1880 sperm constituting
her total catch from May, 1903. to Au-
gust 26 last, the date of arrival at her
home port.
TIE bark Sunbeam, too, whose catch
OF the voyage Immediately preceding
is said to I'VE been worth $65,0o0. was
a prime factor of fortune, this lucky
box of a ship reaching New Bedford
on June &c from a twenty-five months
trip with a grand total of 1900 barrels
OF sperm, almost the banner catch,
time and quantity considered, of the
entire whaling record.
Some Rich Hau1s.
The Sunbeam's latest voyage, good FOR
s45 ON. proved q money winner from "A 70
, r.. When She entered Fayal in October.
1902. only two months from home. she had
65o barrels OF sperm on board. When next
she touched there april, 1909. after a
southern cruise. her total was $1,375 bar
: rele. The summer trip proved less produc-
tive than the two next preceding, still
n N-,,ol olI;tsN~o1 VII n n 4 n n na
when the bark reached Fayal in August.
The luck of the Sunbeam is being shared
by the rank and file Of the fleets sent out
for long or short cruises by the world
, famous firm CT j. &. w. r. Wing and their
: contemporaries. The Leoncra, st.ll at sea,
took 800 sperm from May to September;
. the Morning Star, at Fayal September %.
: had taken 1885 barrels of oil during the
, fourteen months preceding; the John r.
= Manta had secured, when only two
: months from port, go sperm. worth $500.
and a ffteen-pound lump Of ambergris Of
: : first quality. worth 81, 500 more. But the
= star of the luckies. OF the one score lucky
: Atlantic "blubber hunters' pales in tho
light Of the mastery record established by
the bark Josephine on her present voyage.
d The Josephine left New Bedford Septem-
{ Der 10, 1903. She cruised in the Sout At
: iantic and Indian oceans last winter. She
not only secured a rich haul Of sperm
: whales, but found numbers Of valuable
! bone-bearing light whales in waters long
unfrequented by ba.een hunters, and when
she was last reported she had taken zoe
barrels sperm. SEQ barrels right whale oil
i and 1000 pounds OF bone" all worth ss1.-
zoo, the lot secured in one year and cna
v day after leaving home.
: No less than 6.T7s barrels of sperm OF,
a were taken by vessels cruising in the At
g iantic during the six months ending Sep
s TENDER 4. 1901. Is 1t surprising, then.
d that one should near in eastern whaling
I marts the declaration oft repeated,
e Sperm whale is comm to its own again? '
Why He Didn't Drink.
, From The Kansas City Journal.
e Tka Nar6in Star tells that a man from
n that towa made a trip up in Kansas re.
4 Gently. While in a certain small town. liz
/. felt dry. and hunted up a joint. just as b.
> went IN. a tnan stepped up to the bar, anc
Gallo! for a drink. The bartender set h!1r
j. out q glass or water, an empty glass, the