Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — Decline of Whaling. [ARTICLE]

Decline of Whaling.

Whale fishing is not extinct In the United States, but it is gradually and slowly becoming so. From 1850 to 1875 the annual product of the American whale fisheries fell from 100,000 barrels of sperm oil to 42,000; of whale oil, from 300,000 to 35,000; and of whalebone from 5,000,000 pounds to 400,000.