The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-08-18
the nARBoR Of BElllHeulM
Round About Lie Coal. Farming
and Timber Lands.


The great and varied natural re-
sourues Immediately tributary 10 that
most feaatsfai OF sIi hsrhors OF Puget
sound Beliir CHAM bsy-hsve long
been known ~ all ronyersAns With the
sound country. For many years il
has been the hope of the people OF
that section that they woabi lie given
railroad transportation facilities
through which the vast riches Ut that
part OF Washington could he desel-
oTed and sent 70 the World markets.
The great valley OF the Sssoksask--
one st the largest in the territory
comprising hundreds Of thousands Of
acres OF mop lands. an. grain, has ard
frFsSf lands. friBgsss about by timber
helfs. magnificent IN PROPORTIONS and
irle xnaflstlDle In quantity: the great
coal banks. fnoun.aIns OF iron ore.
timber sections and hne farming lands
81 the skagit, the dense forests Of the
" hsscofn lake country. together with
us rich coal yeias. and It's rich or
ehsrd and garden lands ringing this
most beautiful Of All Paesssc coast
sasess the great qnarries of tine build
Ing stone. etc. have lain here for
ages smiling forth an invitation 10 sill
to come and Possess and partake OF
their rich harvest OF development.
or the abundant riches ~ soslog the
development OF these great natural
resources. COM hiuing. as they do. al
most every essential element for the
ACCOMPLISHMENT. weaish-ereasing and
sustaining power OF the human race.
none can doubt who know their vari-
ely. quality and ifnmensity
The time now seems near 81 hand
FOR the speedy development of all the
resources of this favored section. A
railroad company, headed by rail-
road builder. and associated with
whom are men OF large capital, energy
and business ability. has entered the
feid and Is pushing 10 completion
roads tapping the most important of
these districts. These roads. radia-
ting from Fairhsven, on Beiiinghain
bay. are being built a. rapidly as ex-
perieace. money and men can con-
stract them. aud within q short time
viii he carrying the vast product. of
the interior 10 tide water for shipment
a. Fasrhaven. The first thirty miles
OF one OF these roads. the Fairhayen &
Seattle will he completed iai- tall 10 the
company's immense coal beds and the
great forests Of the skagit- Twenty
i've miles Of this road is graded and
ready for the ties and rails Rails sui
hcient Tor tracking the greater part of
the thirty miles have already
been received at Eairhayen.
to- ether with two 65~ton locomotives
and twenty-five ears. More shipments
OF engines, cars and rails are daily ex-
peeted 10 arrive. Preparations are
being made for the erection OF large
coal hunkers, and the shipment OF coal
will commence as soon a. the road Is
completed. Large sawmiils are under
construction al Fairbaven and vicinity,
and General Alger, the great Michi-
gan iamberman, is preparing 10 erect
an immense mill on the bav. just
opposite the city. A brickyard has
been established and is turning out an
excellent quality OF brick, and judging
from the demand from builders. Fair
haven will be no shanty town
Through the construction of the Fair
haven Southern the vast iron mines OF
the Rellingham bay country will be
developed and iron furnaces. feuniries,
machine shops and ear construction
shops will be built al Fairhsven.
In the early spring the road viii beck
tendesfeasf through the sSagit uaSs.
tapping the great graft fields OF East
ern Washington and the gold, silver
and lead mines of the OSanogan and
other rich mining districts 20 the
the eastward. and rurnor has il that nj
SEINE point east of the Cascades IL will
form connection with one OF the
most powerful OF the transcon,inentaI
lines, which has long been seeking to
reach tide water on Puget sound
There will he built Mt Fairhaven great
grain warehouses. elevators, Touring
mills. oar meal mills, etc, for the
manufacture and shipment of cereals,
and smeilers for the reelection of the
silver and lead ores of Eastern Wash
inrton, Idaho. Western Montana,
British Columbia and Alaska.
Forming = connection al Fairhayen,
with the Fsirhayen & Southern, a
line is being built by this same COM
pany up through the great Nooksaek
valley and on across the border To
connection with the Canadian Pacific
at New Westminster.
In addition 10 giving an outlet 10
market 10 the vast agricultural sec
tons of the Nooksaek valley, this
road will develop similar resources.
other than farming. that the Fair
haven II Southern Is opening in the
skagit country. besides giving the
people of Fairhayen an Immediate
connection with great transconti-
mental roaG the Csnadia-> Pacific.
There are nsultitudes OF smiling
faces in the Bellingham bav country
today, because of the realization OF the
hopes OF the people for railroad faoiii-
ties. The roads are being huilt-not
on paper this time-hus building with
iron and steel. and that. too, energet-