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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1748, 6 September 1905, Page 42

The San Francisco “Chronicle ” gives interesting details on modern whaling methods as exemplified in the scheme in operation at Sechart, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, where a whaling station costing 80,000dol has just been established. One hundred men will be employed there in transforming the carcases of whales into various profitable products, every part of the leviathans being utilised. But the whales have first to be caught, and this pai*l of the business will he done by the modern steam whaler Orion, recently arrived from Europe, which will cruise about off Sechart, where whales abound in great numbers. Instead of using small boats in the chase, the whales will be harpooned by modern devices .from the deck of the Orion, and patent reels and special winches will help to take care of the w r hale after he is conquered. The bone alone in a large whale is frequently worth 20,000d01. The monster, after being caught, will be hauled ashore at the whaling station on a sort of marine railway, when the process of dissection will follow at the well-equipped station at Sechart. A similar station may be established next season in the Gulf of Georgia, probably near Nanaimo.