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Identifier: newbedfordmassac00peas (find matches)
Title: New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Pease, Zeph. W. (Zephaniah Walter), b. 1861 New Bedford Board of Trade Hough, George A Sayer, William L. (William Lawton), 1848-1914
Subjects: Industries -- Massachusetts New Bedford New Bedford (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: (New Bedford, Mass.) : Published by order of the Board of Trade
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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and persua-siveness of New Bedfords citizens obtained the privilege of sending 30 NKVV BEDFORD. oil to ports of other countries free of duty. The work of developingthe industry early in the nineteenth century was slow and difficult,with the many hazards encountered on the sea and the opposition offoreign powers on the land. No marked improvement was manifest until after the close of the warof 1812. During that war shipswere captured and destroyedor used as transports by theBritish. After its terminationthe \\ hale-fishery as prosecuted
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in New Bedford advanced with great rapidity and sue- 5; cess. The city continued to lead all other ports in the whaling interests. From the year 1820 until the year 1857 the citys prosperity and accumulation of wealth were uninterrupted. The whaling industry reached its highest point in capital, in vessels, and in tonnage in 1857. Its fleet of 329 ships and THE WHALE-FISHERY. 3I whaling outfits was worth more than twelve millions of dollars andrequired more than ten thousand seamen. The largest importationsof oil and bone were in 1851 and 1853. The quantities of each withthe prices realized from their sale were as follows : 1851. 99,591 barrels sperm oil, at $1.27i per gallon $3,991,980.75 328,483 barrels whale oil, at A^ per gallon 4,682,114.56 3,966,500 pounds bone, at .34^ per pound 1,368,442..50 $10,042,.537.81 1853- 103,077 barrels sperm oil, at .$1.24; per gallon $4,050,539.56 260,114 barrels whale oil, at .58; per gallon 4,762,524.77 5,652,300 pounds bone, at .34^ per pound 1,9

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