Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1915 — Pearl-Fishing Industry. [ARTICLE]

Pearl-Fishing Industry.

The world has at least one locality, as it has at least one industry, In which machinery, and even the simplest mechanical appliance. Is not permitted, through the agency of prohibitive rules, to obtain ascendancy over hand work and primitive methods of labor. The locality is the Tuamotu or Low Archipelago, composed of 87 coral atolls, about one hundred miles eastward of Tahiti; the industry is the pearl fisheries of the archipelago, the finest pearls in the South Pacific being found in the waters adjacent to these islands, as well as considerable quantities of the so-called black4dge mother-of-pearl shell much used in commerce.