The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-08-07
S on THE skle|T.
- win Meet on the
River.
$3.50 Ma . Boom
...s~a % the Seattle
- Ssrtssrs's Plans.

IN isb0regs Eno sIt
800 -, from work on IN
= the Seattle & NortheFr
: ~.re Yesterday paid on q
,,sny e Office, corner OF james
~ streets. The others, sew
s.d. ia number, are at l /
.saa and ship Harbor, ready
;ssf Is fast as there Is SUN
- - the passing steamers
y tso.e nos here, have stated
9 !. no Dissatisfaction; but on
..s,y some OF the gangs have
..,iIy Stayed back n camp , q
- 8 uncomrlsted wof8' before
- Say. -,
p,xr.Iy7gIrIGESegs reporter
Coisenbaugh. a merchant
a. = ,ssnasser at Bayview, who
81 the steamer along with
~. and asked him what he
y 4 the cause why work had
s'soeds He said
"a that Nelson Bennett got
q sSem on the survey up near
- IN the sksgit, and nox
~ . eet q charter or permit
u aa = to enable them
s...fs survey Ma sIuflbt
- q Northern Company ex-
~. .cc.tyuct their road clear TO
1--WE OF the skagit. and
n. (ascaae range. as their
-, suryeYed - that point.
...'.Ss1 shss work viii soon go
- Thse is pile of work
~ 10 seei of throwing it
sssy. .yr,xa ro,xy
81 - s,erling place OF consid-
- ssispsd activity
-. IL sewns Of Mount Vernon,
- "a Sterling, all near together
~ M. have been enjoying quite
~ sioom from the activity in rail-
.s sseslruction. Tha. locality
- = Il tapped By four railroads. !:
n. sssft1e. Lake Shore & Eastern run
~ lu north from Snohomish. is
~ 10 cross the skaRit four
4. aboye Sterling. The Bennett
ifonI fairhayen, going up the
rmlIey, wosld cross the Seattle,
= Shofe 4 Eastern line al the same
= Their the railroad from Ship
~ On which this force of taborers
4 york doinZ more con-
srs;on work than any other road
N-eas also intending To cross at
ans point"
Esbit tie geography OF the country
- % brings them together there =
s1unewhat. But il is really be-
$50 & d In the vicinity of the coal
~, npping the great coal ana ium-
gQrions OF the skagIt river valley. -
y ihst valley rapidly settling up
1InpfovingGh
E'Ye. the people are prospecting.
ktuildtng fine residences all along
Snysr-- they are very fine consider
has new country. As to trade
SlSvdy all along mp 10 Hamilton,
~ he coal mines are located"
fiAcys Aros0 THE RorTE.
|sdev Il the trip now made between
1aHnbor and Sseriing?"
|xkp Hsrhor is on FIdalgo island
IN sxectly an Island, a. IL 1.
yNpsrated from the mainland bs
3uath one-fuurth OF a nj lie In width
hsseh which small steamers pass at
= nde. That Is to be trestied
'ipss Tor the railroad track. Start
Z from there, you would take the
4 and 20 seven miles across the
i % Bayview then across the neck
|hnd, seven miles, TO Avon, the
ksmhoat sanding, on the Skagit, ami
ON that place take a boat up the
yer six miles 10 Sterling"
= How Is Whstcom situated relative
!, III neighboring places -
aTxo niles down from Whatcom l.
|jIngkam bay or the old town OF
bingham. With the new town oi
hrhasen adjoining it-boih ulti-
I1iely 10 be one town. In fact, four
usns are connecting there. They
n Nhatcom. Sebume and The Old
bsas Q! Bellingham aud FaiFhaven
hip haStor is thirty Eve miles south
nj Of Whatcom.
styERAL CosJGCrCRKs.
ar shy OF the great srans-eonti-
snizl railroad lines supposed TO ie at
\ bottom oisthis present lsy-oif Of
sllread lal,orers p
-uh. yes. There are many who fig.
= Il ouI 10 be serious competition
IT. cen the Union Pacific and North.
y Pacific Railroad Companies"