Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-03-16
WILL We GET IT?
The Fairhaven and Southern
Reported to Have Been
Purchased
BY the Great Northern, a
Transcontinental Rail
Road Line
II So, Fairhaven Will Be the
Terminal Point on This
Seaboard


If true. to the city and the citizens of
Fairhaycn:
Inquiry among them will reveal
the fact that there is not "A railroad
man on the sound, not barring those inti-
malely associated with the road. who
believes that the Great Northern rail-
ways progress westward was definitely
estoppcd when, under flaming headlines.
the Seattle newspapers announced that
terminal facilities had been secured for it
in that town.
1t is evidently the fact that the prin-
cipal organizers of the Seattle and Mon
tana road, by which that division Of the
Great Northern, running from Spokane
to Puget Sound is to be- known. do not
believe il for they have been earnestly at
work ever since articles Of Incorporation
of that branch were filed. endeavoring TO
get control Of rights Of way and "a railway
line partially completed down the sound
from Seattle.
ID. II. Gilman and Hon. Thomas Burk.
formerly chief Justice of Washington,
are the head and front of the Seattle and
Montana scheme. Mr.. Gilman engineered
the deal through, with the advice and
legal assistance of his lawyer colleague
Both of these gentlemen are Seattlcites.
intimately associated with that town.
and directly interested in its progression
and development.
1t would surely seem certain that if the
Great Northern purposed coming to
Seattle to stay, Messrs. Gilman aud
Burke would direct their whole at
tcntion to the arduous task of getting
ccntcrcd in the town sufficient food for
the road to Justify its permanent main
tcnancc Of a terminal there. But, ON the
contrary. these gentlemen are after rights
Of way up To what is known as 1.-THE Nell
son Bennett road" the Fairhaven and
southern. Negotiations have been opened.
and it /, authoritatively stated are nos
ia progress looking to the purchase Of
this road from Mr. Bennett by the Seattle
a Montana company Great Northern),
through McsSrS. Gilman, Burk and
others Mr. Bennett will not admit this
is fact neither will he deny il is. Mr..
Bennett does say. though. that the Fair
haven a southern road will soon be built
to Seattle. but by whom he will not say.
II may be- accepted as a fact. the circum-
stantial evidence is 50 strong. that the
Great Northern, through its manipulators
in charge Of its west coast division. has
ABSORBED the Fairhaven q southern and
will run its trains to Fairhaven as its
extreme west coast terminal.
The Northern Pacific people are strong
| In the belief that the Farhaven a. South
ern road is part and parcel Of the Great
Northern system. They hold that the
/ Fairhaycn a Suuthcrn's application to
| the Seattle city council for right Of
way in that town was made in the inter-
est Of the Great Nornthern, 20 which the
| former road belongs.
/ They hold the entire matter of petitions
| for right. of way aud Franchise in Seat
| tie was instigatcd by the Great Northern
kpcopc. that from their acquired alleged
terminal site they might get out to the
/ southward and to "A iointure with the
Bennett tFairhavcn Il Southern) system.
over which they would get into fairha-
ven.
] \ Globe man yesterday talked with u
railroad man pretty well posted and
whose demonstrations in two important
INSTANCE, came out correct. Said this
Gentleman;
There can be- little doubt that the
Grc,t Nortbcrn pcoplc have got Bennetts
r,.,d the Fairbayep A. southern. got il
fr,,, q, ,,,,d nuthority Yesterday that a
..lo,,,.. l,,d hrcn con.ummated by which
n.pprtt agreed To take a block Of Great
Nortb.rp stock for his road aud that he
win IA, ,ssnciatrd ultimately in the direc-
|ti,nor IFS affairs. do not believe the
cr,,t Nnrtbrrn will stop even at Fair
haven think il will be continued on
d,On the sound as far as practicable,
probably to as near a point to the ocean
..,,, Ia. attained
4 IIrn,t.p rcpnrter called ON several OF
ubo h,,siuess men of this city in order tt
,,.t thoir viovs on the subject. The first
.,ll.v.s made upon Governor George A
ut...t. General land agent Of the Fair.
ho,,, aud Southern railway. in his oflic,
II, ,h, b,,douortars building. The gov
-. .,,ii,d whom asked If there was an,
,,,I. o'orti,.Io and said.
-. tb,. cIob. and must take tb.
r., n IL ,ortb am no
"'','' IL an, IN a nosition /,
-. ,s 20 ,l,a o,os,io,
~ w. I ,s,a,omo,t /" uo noitho
-. a, ,,irrood tho renortcd sale a
''.'.,', ~ A. ..,,,,no.,od y,ith hut kindl,
-, r,,,,r,or IN ,,oror,J Managed
I'm ,,'I, a.. il, Tho same of,icc Wbe,
i,,t.t.a,i .ny,bing for nuhlicatio,
..y.,',,',, - A., r,,,,r,cd solo Mr. covgil
1hat t,ad rot nm that ne had write
''' -, ' t'i,,s,Ir ,o aud out the rea
',.,,',.,c ,i,o ,no,tor lilo was not willin
ai,., an,, inform,tion untiI ne ma
,.ua,hi,g authentic