Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-04-01

take month or six weeks: then. the
second step is to proceed under Sec. 10 Ia
consolidate the two towns intOo which.
under the act of the legislature. will lake
at the least six weeks. and then the new
towns thus created may, under See. 9. cX-
tend its boundaries. which will require
slN weeks more; and this assumes that a
majority of the inhabitants of the two
towns and of the people who are proposed
TO he included within them upon the
boundaries should vote in favor OF the re-
adjustment. If there should be any
serious objection, particularly if such OBJ
lection should result in litigation upon
the subject, then it will take at the least
year or eighteen months. assuming that
IL might finally be determined tavOrably
to "A consolidation and extension of the
boundaries
The recent act of the legislature
covers all of these cases and provides the
manner in which each step shall be taken
so that in the discussion of the question
towns of the bay and the eN-
tension of their limits, the question of
time and disposition of the people pro-
posed to be included, are material Ques-
tions to be cons idered. aud by many peO-
pie who understand the situation il Is
thought TO be at present practicable to
undertake a matter which will CONSUME
~ ulutll lllilf anu W lttu VIII III tue emu
be So uncertain as to It's results.
AS We understand a petition has been
and signed by the requisite
number Of the residents of Fairhavcn and
by nearly all the people of Bcllingham.
asking the county commissioners to in
the city of Fairhayen with
boundaries which shall include the
present town of Belingham. What rca-
sons are assigned for having so much
1 Ntsit hin tla limits nT tho ..it .f
FairhaYen."
"Thesr-The geographical situation of
the towns Of Fairhavcn and Bellingham
make them one in interest aS they must
remain one from a commercial point Of
view. In addition to that the people who
are most largely interested in the town of
Fairhayen also own one-half of the entire
tOWnstc Of Bellngham. and the people
who own the other half of the townsite of
Bellingham are identified in interest with
the people of Fairhaven. II Is deemed by
both wholly unwiSc from business
standpoint and would be entirely unjust
to have large portion of their lands in
cludcd within the corporate limits of
some other town. The Inconvenience of
business and the unjust burdens of taxa
tion which might be- imposed upon them
by municipal corporation in which they
had no interest whatever make IL undc
sirahle that any part of their lands should
be included within the limits of city in
which they have no interest
In the second place. the proposed
boundaries of Fairhaven are not too large
considering the present growth of the
town and its Immediate prospects for the
future Whatever may be said ON the
subject the fact i apparent To all that
the town of fdrhaVeu is the terminus Of
a railway system which has already
reached large proportions aud which has
done more for the development of Bel
lingham bay and Of NhatcOm county
than any other single enterprise which
has been iuauguratcd in the country. and
tairhavcn will remain the terminus Of
that road. Its population is rapidly in
creasng; il is doing at the present time
very much the larger part Of the COM
mcrcc of the entire bay and is growing
much more rapidly than any other town
ON the bay. In short time its roads viii
be extended into British Columbia aud
through the most important points in
this state and across the Columbia river
into Oregon. They will be extended also
into Eastern Washington. aud there i
every reason To believe that FairhaNen
which Is already a place of considerable
commercial importance. will become one
of the chief commercial points on the
sound. and the territory proposed to be
included within its limits Is not Ian ge,and
all the people located within that terri
tory have been consulted upon the subject
aud there is practically unanimous feel
Ing in favor Of Incorporating the town
with boundaries sufficiently ample to
enable it to control the rapidly extending
streets 50 that there may be a uniformity
between the streets of the town as II now
exists and that part Of the country Inn
mediately adioing which is being plated
and laid of into lots and blocks
with all these things In view there Is
feeling among the people within the
territory proposed 10 be- included In the
corporate limits OF Fairhaven that it is
not asking too much of the county com
missioncrs to ask them to adopt as the
limits Of the corporation the boundary
lines proposed in the petition which is
published In this issue of your paper.