Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-03-23
A LOGICAL DEDUCTION


Al exchange affects TO believe that the |
Northern Pacific owns the Fairhaven
southern and that the Fairhaven South |
eru owns the HERALD. and hence the |
HERALD ought 20 know all about what
has been done concerning the reported |
sale of the second named road To the |
Great Northern. The facts are that the |
HERALD belongs TO the Fairhaven Pub |
fishing company and that company is |
composed of gentlemen in this city who
are Interested in numerous enterprises.
not the least Of which Is the HERALD.
aud deeply Interested in the newspaper. |
financially and otherwise. are the men |
who are conducting it and whoare utterly |
uncontrolled by anything beyond their |
Judgment of what is fair. Just and right. |
Hence the HERALD knows no more of the /
private affairs Of any railroad or other
corporation Of which it is not member
than any one else tho has reasonable OPP |
portunity to inform himself
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Plain. every day common sense teaches |
us. however. that transcontinental rail- |
road seeking the shores of Puget sound is |
not going to loose its chances of building
city and go into a place where its ter
minal facilities will be circumScribed and
where il must huy ground at the rate of
thousands Of dollars per foot front. when
1t can come to promising place like
Farhaven and obtain not only greater
facilities than anywhere else ON the in
land sea and where il would have an OPP
portunity to do something richly remun-
eratiye in the building up OF great city
In which it would have more than con-
tributing interest
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Men who build railroads must certainly
know a great deal about geography gem
orally. and especially about the geogra-
ply. topography and resources of the i'm
mediate region for which their roads are
proposed. This being the case it is more
than probable that the projectors and
promoters Of the Great Northern railroad
are fully aware that Bellingham bay Is
nearer to the Pacific ocean than any other
harbor Of even half its excellence: that
the harbor j. one into which ships Of any
draft may come with sails set and with
out the added expense and time lost in
towing; that il Is nearest of any great
harbor on the way around the world on
the line Of the worlds greatest CONNER
cial belt; that Fairhaven on this bay is
nearest to the great coal and iron fields Of
the Skagit country ofany other practicable
and available place for the building of a
city; that land and water front has been
reserved for just such an enterprise
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Aside from this, it is a fact which can
not be set aside that there is no practic-
able route through the Cascades north Of
Stampede pass. where the Northern
Pacific now crosses. until the Skagit pass
is reached. Any line of road must come
through Skagit pass and down the Skagit
river to Cedro before il can go south. To
CedrO the Fairhaven Southern is now
running. and as the distance from Fair
haven is only twenty four miles, il is not
probable that any railroad will take the
pains to build fifty or seventy-fve miles
further, To incur not only that extra ex-
pense, but the continually added expense
ever afterward Of about Is cents per ton
ON freight seeking the sea or going east.
just for fun. 1t is well known that in
this country it costs railroad an actual
expense Of one-half cent a ton simply to
haul freight after il is ON the cars. The
distance say from Seattle 10 the sea is
fifty or seventydve miles further than
Fairhaven. and from Cedro TO Seattle by
land is about fifty miles further than to
Fairhaven. Figure yourself. We who like
figures. and you will have some trouble
figuring the Great Northern into any
other port than Fairhaven.
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For numerous other excellent and palp- |
able reasons there can be no doubt that the |
Great Northern will make Fairhaven its |
Pacific coast terminus. and all these |
things being true. which undoubtedly /
they are. Fairhavcn is in the swim and |
those who think these estimates. predic- /
tions and assertions are too rosy and who
fail to catch on" In Fairhaven. will one /
day find themselves in mourning and too /
late for the tide which flows on to fortune.