The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-11-10
WHATCOM'SNEW BOON
History Of the Existing Rail
road Companies.
suADlnc BEGUN At LAST.
TIE Cornwall Road 90 BE Fa<Asd = .
Fini.h. and Bennsst ~ neseh New
WESTMINSTER 1exf sunenser-


t4t1AtN 4tE1t& &&3N C0fztEGzH& y 1AtE = 1AANtAA
Pacifle. We lad another veritahls bo0En on
Belhnghsn bag. ard - General MeRheF-
son more than 10 snF okhsr man are We IN
debted therefor. How ne succeeded IN s1o-
ing & i hard 20 tel. but be certainly sac
csesied In inducing great many people 80
believe thai Beliingh1m hay. and NOS la
coma. was 10 Be the termiass of the North
ern Pacific The great advertisements o.
ths Northern Peeilic broueht "a immense
immigration into tas territory that year.
and ~ sorne mesinsi or other many 81
ftlen found their waT - Beiiinshans hAy.
eager and ready g buy town lots. unfor-
tunately fer Whatcosn, . difficulty then
existed hetween the pruprietors Of the toEn
end tie Kansas colony, and until that dif-
hruify Was settled and adjusted. deeds for
town lots could not be gwen. This pre-
vented great deal al capital from being
invested IN Whafeom Al thai time.
Bat 10 Offset that the town Of Fairnaven
was laid OF on fhe Harris doriasion clsizn.
the tOwn Of BelZEnghans vas laid on on
part nf the Fatfle ard Morrison claims. and
the town al scheme was REPEATED and
named New Whateom On the Vail. Fffx-
hugh and Psgs claims, and ~ sadsii0naI
porti0n Of their property. About $t5e 30
was invested in those three towns that
year. In lSS3 81 the large steam sawmia
AZ Beglirehanl WIS built, bat unfortunately
for the owners and for the locality. Is has
been lying Edie nearly ever since
In ISIS The gentlemen composing the
Beslingham Bay Coal Company inrerpor-
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