Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-10
THE ISLANDS

San Juan county, which is composed
OF Islands Of the Archipelago de Haro
is natural commercial tributary OF
talrhayen to which the HERALD has
frequently called the attention of oul
merchants and now desires to do Sc
again. The San Juan and Orcas
islands, especially, are being rapidly
filled up, and with their beauty and
fruitfulness, will within a few years
be series Of orchards and gardens
and handsome homes. Because of
the impossibility, that will always ex-
ist, for getting railway communica-
ton with those islands, they will be
dependent upon city, near at hand,
on the mainland as depot of supplies.
tairhaven has the advantage of being
the nearest and in every way the most
practicable place for the island trade
to come, but it is not going to come
| unless better efforts are made to secure
1t. 1t is true that we have a line of
boats running to the islands, thanks
to the liberality and enterprise of a
Few Jealous citizens, but visit to
East Sound on Orcas island, for in
stance, will prove to even a casual OBJ
server that the business houses of
almost any city on the Sound are bet
ter advertised there, than those of
tairhayen. Aside from the comics of
the daily HERALD that go there one
seldom sees Fairhaven sign,
The character Of large part of the
land on Orcas island, and the nearness
OF the island to Bellingham bay, will,
In a short time, make it the summer
nome of many Fairhaven and What
com people. There is a disposition to
take small tracts there and convert
them into gardens and orchards and
pleasant homes. Besides, people from
all over the country, when they come
to know what delightful spots those
islands are, will fill them up and the
population will be great and the trade
both ways exceedingly desirable.
Fairhaven merchants should do their
utmost at once to give the islands a
market for their fruits and vegetables
and to secure their trade in the goods
they need.
As intimated before. this cannot be
done by waiting for the islanders to
come here, but by sending commercial
agents to them and by keeping Fair
haven and its business advertised on
the islands. The merchant who will
want that trade after it has grown
larger, and who pays no attention to J
it now when it is small, will find that
by falling TO cultivate when it is
young, he will not be entitled to the
harvest, and will not get it, because
others have gone in ahead of him and I
have turned the trade their way.
What is said of the individual mer-
chant in this connection, applies as
well to the mainland marts.
Thousands of fruit trees are being
planted every year on San Juan and
Orcas Islands, and the quantities of
strawberries that the islands will |
yield will be positively enormous. In
short, those two islands alone will. in
live years from now, be the greatest
fruit raising region Of the Pacific
coast, and even during the years that
shall intervene, the quantity of fruit
that they will ship will be almost in
;redulous. The HERALD knows of
)ne young man, Mr.. Sutherland, at
East Sound, who has a young and
comparatively small strawberry plat,
Who has secured over 10000 pound
boxes for strawberries whichhe expects
TO ship, filed, from his ground within
-he next six weeks, and altogether
here will be many tOns-thfnk of it,
roNs!-of Strawberries shipped from
hose two islands this season. To
secure the fruit trade alone from the
Stands, and the reciprocal in-going
jrade. would be big thing for any
'ity. Fairhaven should see to il that
t is obtained for this point.