Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-06-03
SOME RAILROAD TALK.


borhood Of the facts concerning the Fair
haven and Southern, Seattle. Lake Shore
and Eastern. etc. 1t may not be out of
the wav TO mention in this connection,
that when there is something authentic
to be printed under this head, the HERALD
will not be- behind in giving the truth and 1
all that the public may desire to know in 4
the premises. Yesterday morning the /
Tacoma Globe created quite sensation f
in this city when the Sunday morning
paper arrived containing the following
article:
once again that little road running from
the town Of seattle away out into the
mountains. and forty miles froin nowhere.
a. one-tinie member OF IL, directorat" DE-
scribed ii. j. attracting attention In railway
circles IL i a fact that negotiations for the
transfer OF the seattle. Lake shore 4 Fast
eIn railway are now we'll under way indeed.
at this writing. Il i very probable that the
road and all it, belongings have chuuscd
hands.
while seemingly an unimportant and short
line 81 local railway. the seattle. Lake shore
and Eastern j. really one 81 the most itupor-
tact lines Ia Washington. II not in the Pacific
northwest. Its line j. generally conceded to
be the key 10 the situation ~ rvgarc~ the
railway development Of the northwestern
and northeastern sections Of the state, aud
it, northern extension Go the Canadian
boundary line az the Mission. ., very Inn
portant line.
II l. now authoritively stated that the -
attic. Lake shore and Eastern will he alb
sorhed by the Fairhaven & southern people.
The Fairhaven & southerns northern eNten-
sion Is already well up to the Canadian
boundary line, and Possessed u the tracks
Of the seattle, Lake shore & Eastern, the
Fairhaven & Southern would have two OF the
most valuable feeders from the Canadian
Pacific railway. In conjunction with the
absorption OF the road Il IS stated the Fair
haven 4 southern eastern extension Will be
made 20 tap the seattle Lake shore 4 East
ern's main line. Work Of constructing the
latter through the mountains to Spokane and
the East over a route already surveyed and
staked will be at once begun and pushed
vigorously 20 completion.
Nelson Bennett and other prominent meme
bers OF the Fairhaven 4 Southern have been
al work for some time on the deal. and last
night Il WAS given out authoEitstvely that
II had practically been contaminated OF
Course. possessed OF a through standard line
from the sound To- spokane Falls. the Fair
haven 4 Eastern line would Do an active
competitor with both the Northern Pacific
and the nion Pacific lines and the projected
Great Northern road for cross the state bus
mess, and especially FOR the wheat trauspor-
tatiou trade As TO where the lalrhANen a
:, uthefn line Will locate hspermsuent Puget
sound terminal. IL would Dc hard even 20
Soniecture fairhaVcn has monopolized all
the lines attention on sound deep water. but
ss far more pretentious lines pick out no es-
pecial point but want all the Important ones
for sound terminals. IL Is likely she nesr fu-
ture ~lll zee the blue snd gray hNdeckei
cars % the nev aspirant for railway horor-
running 70 the sounds biggest and mos, I'M
portAnt commercial center, Tscoms.
The Fairhsyen snd southern viii be-
You'd doubt connect With the Canadian
Pacific in less than three months, which
will give this city immediate, all rail,
through communication with the east.
and in the same time with the work now
rapidly progressing. IL is probable that
the line running toward Seattle viii be
completed so rs 10 give connection with
the Northern Pacific at Seattle and IL is
the intention Of its builders to go on e
Vancouver. Washington. on the Colum-
bia. Thatthere is any intention Of tap.
ping the Seattle. Lake Shore and Eas-
terms main line on the FairhayeI
aud Southern's eastern extension. nothing
could be farther from the truth. The
last named road is being independently
constructed and a rapidly a. possible up
the Skagit 10 the pass and over the Gas.
cades. beyond which doubtless 1t will con.
tinue TO a junction with the Great
Northern. and whether or not IL j.. OF
ever will b.. purchased by the Great North
ern Il will certainly be mode a. rapidly as
work can be done eastward and westward
the western division Of a new trans-couti-
mental line which will positively have IL,
main western terminus at Farhaven
That the Fairhaven Southern
intends to go on southwark regard.
less OF the Seattle Lake Shore
and Eastern TO Vancouver on the Column
bia there can be no doubt. but that is FOL
the purposes Of a feeder 10 Fairhavcu from
the south.
The closing sentences In the Globes ar.
ticle, quoted above. are more or less fun
ny. When il says, "As 10 where the Fair.
haven and southern line will locate IL.
permanent Puget Sound terminal IL " ould
be hard TO conjecture one feels as Il
he would laugh right out in school" ant
when it intimates that the projectors
friends and deeply interested people o.
Falrhaveu. who are also the projectors
builders and owners Of the Fairhaven and
Southern road, have built the road fol
the purpose Of making its chief ter
minus at Tacoma or anywhere else
than Fairhaven. the fun waves loud, vocif
erous and overwhelming.
The entire thing In nutshell is tha
FaIrhaven is 10 be, within very few
months the concentrating point of thre'
lines Of railroad, one leading from th,
south, where on it, way II Will make al
rail connection with the entire country bl
the Northern and Union Pacific roads;
another leading from the north " IN be tn
connecting line with the Canadian Pscifi
system aud connections and another frou
the east will bring 10 this city tho Goa
and iron Of the Skagit and the prcciou
metal ores Of tho Okanogan region for tn
luIudCtss sHfiffl-s 4dctoEit7 duN uilili
which are to b. built here this summer
and as quickly as the transconilnentaI
line can be completed. Fsirhaveu will alst
be terminus Of that.route and the entre.
port FOR trade with the Orient, unpara.
lelled by that Of any city on the Pacific
Coast. Those who choose 20 smile at thi.
and do not take advantage OF all that #
means, will some day. in the near future
smile on the other side OF their mouths
and also kick themselves for being so
supersufficiently smart.
The Tacoma News says: THE Conc
conully district Is rich In mineral wealth,