The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-15

! Fall River, sehe after a cruise on the ] northwest coast, came into New Bed- ford with casks full and every recepta- cle on the ship filled with wealthy grease. Still another fortunate craft, cruising on the same grounds, wasthe Onward, On one of her voyages which terminated in 1S66,the cargo of oil and bone brought three hundred thousand dollars.
 THE YEAR FOR HIGHP PRICES.
 This was the year for high prices and the ships lucky enough to escape the | Confederate cruisers during the last l three years of the civil war made mon- ey. The Onward arrived at her home port on July 4, of that year. The bark J. D. Thompson, New Bedford built ship, which was owned in New London l for a number of years, made a very | successful Arctic cruise during this pe- | riod. She returned to New London on l March 19, 1868, with 6,149 barrels of oil l and 64.700 pounds of bone. It was a cruise of nearly five years, but the longest voyage on record Is that made by the ship Nile of New London. She sailed for the North Pacific May 4, 1858, and returned to port during the spring | of 1869. In that time she had eleven different captains and was fairly sue cessful in her catch. She, however, was 1 captured by the Shenandoah in 1865 and bonded for forty-five thousand dollars.
 DISASTER IN THE ARCTICS.
 The J. D, Thompson with the Month cello, another New Londoner,were lost in the Arctic ocean in 1871 in the great disaster of that year. It was at this time that Arctic whaling received a setback, for that year there were lost in the ice thirty-four vessels, entailing a loss of a million and a half dollars 1 To add to this the ships which contin- ued to cruise in those waters that de- eade found whaes very shy and in 11S7G a second disaster occurred in the far north, when a dozen ships were crushed In the ice and forty thousand dollars sank in the depths of the Arc tic
 The few ships that made good cuts during. that decade were in great luck however, and in 1875 the Camilla, Cap- tain B. F. Nye, was high hook, taking inside of four months twenty-three hundred barrels of oil and twenty-Goul thousand pounds of whalebone. Most of the bone taken on that cruise was sold in 1877 at five dollars a pound in gold.
 still another lucky whaler was the Europa, and when she returned from a South Atlantic ocean cruise early ir 1880 with one thousand barrels of sperm oil, 3,0S0 barrels of whale oil and twen. ty+four thousand pounds of whalebone which sold for a fabulous sum, the in dustry began looking up again. Cap tain Edward Penuiman of Eastman Mass, was theman who made that cut 1 INTRODUCTION OF STEAM VITAL.
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 It was during that year that steam whaler was Introduced, the late Will liam Lewis of New Bedford being tn, first to embark in this venture. H, built the Mary and Helen and sent he into the Arctic ocean with great sue cess in 1881, She was commanded b! Captain l.. c. Owen of Vineyard Ha ven, who that season of five month lstowed down twenty-three hundred 1 barrels of whale oil and forty-six thou sand poundseof whalebone-a season work to be proud of. She cam through the Behring Straits that fall having captured twenty-seven whales and was blubber logged while coming out of the ocean.
 Other sperm whaling voyages of not were those of the Milton Niger an, Horatio commanded by Captali Charles Grant. In every instance h made big voyages which yielded goo profit, as the sums received were large This vessel happened to reach DOT when oil was selling at fancy prices.
 Several of the Atlantic whalers at tn present time have made large cuts, bu the prices obtained for the oil is s small that they sink into insignifcanc as compared with the earlier voyages
 UPS AND DOWNS AT PRESENT.
 The Arctic whalers sailing out fror San Francisco have had their ups an downs in the last decade. They nol seldom go to the trouble of trying ou the blubber of a whale It Is the bon which is wanted, and this removed tn carcass is allowed to sink. Severs good seasons have resulted, but s many poor ones have intervened tha the luck is split up so to speak, and on does not hear so much of these cruise as record breakers.
 There were years when the ships rt turned to port at loss to owners an 1858 will always be a memorable or for whaling agents in New Bedford l is recorded that out of the sixty-eigi vessels which arrived home that yea forty-four lost money, which was est mated to be not far from one milho i dollars
 The voyages enumerated above al among the very best which have bee made since American whaling off shoi was first Introduced and as alread stated every whaleman believes tha there is lots of luck in whaling To cans strike whales if you do not SC ' them.
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