Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910a
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Saturday July 23-1910 Once an Emp. It rained again last night and this morning all is wet and a heavy fog hangs over the land. The phone calls at this post this morning at 8 and 2 men come with me with the mail. No freight on farmers. The steamer takes the mail to the postoffice and gets it there. No one on shore seem to care to give a helping hand, At mine it rains and we are finally bound to the house for another day. In the afternoon went to Johnson Cove to see the abandoned whale factory. It cost $85,000 to build, ran during the season of two years but mere paid. One stockholder invested $300. and got $10 in dividends. All is now going to rot. In one place there was a pile of whale bones but we saw nothing of value, all the heads and jaws are sawed into several pieces. The cutlases have the process marked. Collected on the top of the little back of Johnson cove at two levels 10 and 15 feet above the base of the limestone series. But Glenelles here, at my expense from surprise.