190 KEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



The following table shows the aggregate statistics for the United 

 States for a period of five years: 



Table showing statistics of the manufacture of menhaden oil and gnano in the United States 

 in the years 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, and 1877. 



[Compiled from the Annual Eeports of the United States Menhaden Oil and Guano Association.] 



Xnmbor of factories in operation 



K umber of sail- vessels employed 



Kumber of steam-vessels employed 



^Number of men employed is fisheries . . 



Number tf men employed in factories . . 



Total number of men employed 



Amounr of capital invested 



Number of fish takea 



Number of fish taken (estimated in bar- 

 rels) 



Number of gallons of oil made 



Number of tons of guano made 



Number of palloos of oil held by manu- 

 facturers at the end of the year 



Number of tons of guano hel i by manu- 

 facturers at the end of the year 



Value of oil, at 37 cents 



Value of guano, at§U 



Total value of manufactured products.. 



1873. 



1, 

 1, 



2 



S2, 38?! 

 397, 700, 



1, 193, 



2,214, 



36, 



$399, 

 1, 218, 



62 

 383 



•20 

 109 



197 

 30a 

 000 

 000 



100 



bCO 

 299 



1874. 



64 

 283 



25 

 871 



1, r.fi7 



2,438 

 $2, 500, 000 

 492, b78, 000 



1, 478, 634 



3, 372, S;j7 



50, 976 



648, 000 



5,200 



§1, 2 17, 950 



$300, 736 



$1, 808, 686 



CO 



304 



39 



2,633 



$■2, 050, 000 

 M3, 327, OCO 



1, 877, 767 



2, Gr-1, 4S7 



53, 625 



125, 000 



1, 850 



$992, 140 



$589, 875 



$1, 582, 015 



64 



320 



46 



2,758 

 S2, 750, 000 

 512,450,000 



*1, 535, 885 



2, 902, OlO 



51, 245 



264, 000 



7, 275 



$1, 107, 040 



1503, 695 



$1, 670, 735 



56 

 270 

 '53 



2. 631 



12,047,612 

 587, 624, 125 



1, 953, 747 



2, 42i), 5f 9 



55, 444 



94, 000 



2,840 



S997, 838 



4.609, 884 



$1, 007, 722 



' The Oil, Paint, and Drug Reporter for January 9, 1877, gives this as 1,708,166. 



A coinparison of the yield of the whale and other fisheries. 



259. In 1875, the total amount of sperm oil from the American whale 

 fisheries was 1,000,951 gallons; of other whale oil, 1,414,180 gallons; in 

 all, 2,50 ri, 137 gallons. The amount of menhaden oil for the same year 

 was 2,618,487 gallons, an excess of 176,350 gallons. In 1874, the amount 

 of menhaden oil was 3,372,837 gallons, exceeding that of whale oil by 

 1,115.597 gallons. 



In 1876, 2,990,000 gallons of menhaden oil were made, and in 1877, 

 2,426,000, For the year ending June 30, 1877, the production of whale 

 oil was 2,140,047 gallons, and for the year 1877, 2,151,765 gallons. 



In the "Oil, Paint, and Drug Eeporter" for January 14, 1874 (page 4), 

 the following statement is made : 



" It is asserted that while the amount of oil i)roduced is equal to that 

 derived from the whale fisheries in this country, the menhaden interest 

 is ahead of the whale, for though the menhaden oil sells at a less price 

 per gallon, for every barrel of oil made there is three-quarters of a ton 

 of scrap, which readily commands $15 per ton at the factory." 



This is not true. In 1874, for instance, the value of the sperm oil 

 alone was $1,250,987; that of other oils from the whale fishery, $775,919. 

 Total value of oils from the whales, $2,026,906; the value of the total 

 products of the whale fishery, $2,291,896. 



By way of further comparison, the cod and seal-oil fishery of New- 

 foundland and Labrador may be instanced. The latest figures at hand 

 show the product of the seal oil fishery to be 1,500,000 gallons, and of 

 the cod-oil fishery 900,000. 



