The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-07-09
The Great Northern Railroad
Buys the Fairhaven Il
Southern.
GOOD TERMINAL FACILITIES SECURED.
An Agreement on the Silver Bill
Has Been Reached by the
COnferees.
The Treasury Will Have to Buy -Four
and a Half Million Ounces
Silver Per Month.

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lion of the big railroad deal by which the
Great Northern railway absorbs the FAIR
haven u Southern has been given. In
cluded with the Fairhaven & Southern in
this purchase are without question the
finest terminal, manufacturing and ocean
shipping faculties possessed by any rail
road on the Pacific coast. They include
over 100 acres in the heart of the city,
several miles Of unequaled water front,
and rights-of-way and wharfs, altogether
possessing an immediate intrinsic value
Of many hundreds of thousands, and a
prospective value reading we'll up in the
millions. 1t o transpires that shrewd
James j. Hill has BEEN quietly gathering
together this vast property for months,
and that in some instances thousands of
dollars have been paid for fractional and
much-needed tracts to parties who orig
inally purchased the same from the Fair
haven company for a sony.
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS.
The Fairhaven Herald contains many
interesting details connected with this
important transaction. 1t also contains
interviews with Vice-P President Clough
and Chief Engineers Becker and Dono-
van of the Great Northern and Fairhaven
Southern roads respectively, as we'll as
with other officials, all going to show tia,
this move by the Great Northern e
equal IN importance to the absorption OF
the o. r. & N. by the Union Pacific
These officials give many interesting
facts with reference to the Great North.
ern's extensions east, north and south
from Fairhaven, and the vast terminal
Improvements to he made here. All these
lines are to be extended as fast as mer
and money can d, 1t, and terminal i'm
provements costing some 100000 are
al ready under way.
BRIGHT PROSPECTS IN STORE.
This interview shows that Fairhaven /.
to profit by its transcontinenta line, ever
In a greater degree than have Portland
and Tacoma profited by theirs, from thu
fact that the Great Northern will have
line about $50 miles shorter, with cas-,
grades to the open ocean, than any other
Also by virtue of its own contemplated
superior ocean service it will gather her
a large share of the Oriental trade, whicl
now goes southwark by routes nearl.
1000 miles longer.
The Fairhaven & Southern Is to reacI
the Canadian Pacific in ninety days, an
the southern extension will connect Wit
i. the Northern, Union and Southern Pa
cltic before the close of the present yea
. giving Fairhaven the benefit Of fou
. transcontinentsl lines almost before W
can realize it. The same vigor chalat
terizes construction on the main line
east. Some Of the heavy sections al
now being pushed day and night by tn
q use of the electric light. Over $500 ton
d of steel rails are being handled to-day b
7 the Charles Moody.
Miles of streets are being graded
planked and substantially built Il
through what was an ~impenetrable fore'
10 months ago. A 100000 system {
: water works is in operation, as we'll 9
s the best system of electric lighting in th
Q state. The massive stone, brick and iru
hotel, costing over 100000, is under roo
Gas lighting and electric street railway
are IN progress. Real estate transaction
ran up to about $25O,000 in Inc past 4
hours. The city is gaily decorated !
v honor Of the great railway deal, and tt
rapidly increasing number of visitors
the So steamers and steamships alread
touching here lends great animation
9 the ene
Fairhaven's coal, iron, lumber an
q stone resources are being developed on
l mammoth scale. 1t is believed that 1,N
tons of coal can be shipped daily /
October. The lumber mills have a capae
. ty of about five hundred thousand fe
daily, most Of which IS absorbed by CT
Improvements and railway extensions
q fast as sawed.