Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-07-31

men are employed in the vicinity in diff
ferent ways in the lumber industry. The |
principal coal vein. now thirtysiX feet |
thick. of bright clean coal. gives work TO |
several hundred more. who are putting it |
in shape for the Great Northern railway |
to ship 1000 tons per day after October |. |
The coal bunkers will be among the larg-
est and best on the Pacific coast. The
iron mines are being thoroughly opened
up by drifts and tunnels preparatory to
heavy shipments to Eairhayen's blast fur
naces in the near future.
The Great Northern railway is pushing
construction with the grea test yigor east,
north and south on the old Fairhaven K
Southern lines. Grading Is about two
thirds completed from Fairhaven north
to New Westminster, on the Canadian
| Pacific. The entire line will be ready for
the iron by the middle of August. and the
iron is all here nvw. Three thousand
tons are now being unloaded at the big
ocean wharf by the Charles +. Moody.
The track can easily be laid In thirty
days, so we expect to see Canadian Pa
cihc cars running into Fairhayen straight
from the Atlantic ocean by October LIST,
at the latest. Work is being pushed with
equal activity on the main line east and
on the line south toward Seattle, Tacoma
and Portland. The former will reach the
tunnel site well up on the Cascade range
by the close of the year, and the latter
southern line will give us three great
transcontinenial connections at once, the
Northern, Union and Southern Pacific.
. Meantime those extensions are bringing
Fairhaven much business and trade.
Aside from the vast outlay for construc-
ton work, the lines so far as completed
are already doing large business.
Thousands are going into the interior, II
is one of the wonders of this region how
rapidly an apparently impenetrable fores'
will make room. employment and wealth
+ for "A multitude 1t il infinitely ahead o
, prairie region for this. Loggers pro
, coed almost in batallions. They arr
} quickly followed by the homeseeker, witt
Y soon learns that he can make more none.
off of ten acres of this cleared land thai
on the best quarter section in Ia sas o
+ Nebraska. lie not only produces four o
& five times as much from given acreage
but he has the best market in the worl'
e right at home. Then while the logger
l. and farmers and fruit growers are work
r ing on the surface the earth
u being honeycombed by the Goa
l. and iron miners and the sllNe
; and gold miners. No region on earth ca
V show such enormous veins of cooking Goa
l. None can show more or better iron. an
II il is now well known that the gold. silVe
and lead a little higher up ON the slope
. of the Cascade range will engage an arm
le of miners for ages TO come. These as IN
n REASONS WHY lHt tbuuiiA Niibutdl9 =
- Farhaven accommodates or asslmllat,
he the influx so easily and will continue
n do so for years.
Every transcontinental line alread
touches our docks-some twice day
i'll through well appointed steamer Sc
- vice. We have thirty-tive ~ forty ocea
w and coastwise vessels calling regularl
he besides large fleet of sailing and 9th
It's craft. They gave us the advantages OF
great railway center eXceDt simply IN q
he matter of quick time. and they conf
to some blessings railways can't. amol
= which are lower tates. This ocean trai
er will naturally greatly increase when I
it Great Northern's main line east IS cor
.as pleted. Jim Hill will establish I
=. finest steamship line ON the Pacific.
H. is making preparations to do busint
with il here on mammoth scale.
has secured and is improving three mi
ar of water front aud much property in
ny heart of the city. and involving an QUIT
-, of several millions. X. T..