Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-08-04
Stick TO FAIRHAVEN
Colonel Mundy on a Trip East
Sees Some Telling
Things
He Declares the Focal City
To Be the Best Place
of All Visited
And that Half a Foothold Here
Is Better Than a Fixture
Elsewhere

Following Is a letter 20 the HERALD
from Col. j. S. Mundy under date Kan
sas City, July %:
TO THE EDITOR: Leaving Fair
hayen and home Wednesday morning,
22d, by City Of Seattle, with delight
full breeze and bracing air prevailing,
landed at Tacoma at O'Clock, in a
sweltering sun that would melt
South Carolina African. This heat
continued south 10 Portland, and was,
TO me, most unbearable. Leaving
Portland via the Union Pacific, Oregon
Short Line, east we journeyed two
days and nights, through Eastern
Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming, through
the most intense scorching heat,
seemingly impossible for man TO en-
dure, Thermometer standing at 10 In
the car, while the heat coming In
with the dust, was certainly 200. En-
route we fell In with an old time
friend Of Mayor Wilson and Governor
| Black, whose home was at Payette, a
struggling, struggling little town In
| Southeastern Idaho, whose praises IL
was interesting TO hear sung by its
promoter, before we reached IL, and
after parting company with the gen
| tleman, and being hauled out OF the
sand and sage brush OF the town, we
wondered what such "A man would say
TO strangers whom he chanCed %
meet, If he had such town and
Ia RI
Bellingham bay Is surrounded by. On
through the same scenes Of desOlatlOn
and lack OF general interest, with no
apparent commerce in sight, except
freight cars, loaded with "COm-
pany coal, ana railroad
ties Cthe latter self cyi-
IDENTIFY for company's use ALSO
we arrived at Cheyenne. Here were
evidences Of an approach 10 Gods
country again, thence south 10 Den
yer, we found the first evidences or
husbandry and promise OF return 10
man Of soil product, In a ride OF near
ny 1900 miles. On through Kansas 10
this city, was on every side evidence Of
a bOuntiful crop yield, result of toll
the Kansas farmer has not had for
some years, but at every point touched
and every one heard from, the sane
general cry and complaint IL heard
"Dull times, hard times, no business,
etc" Arriving her. the cry Of de-
preston becomes frantic wall. An
old citizen here informs me that there
are Z 900 vacant houses and bushes.
. places in this city and business Is alb
: sOlutely at a standstill. Property can
not be sold at any price; papers arc
filled with notices Of mortgage fore
closures that nobody but creditors bio
at sale. IL Is a fact that genera
business stagnatiOn exists and yet no
body has a good reason 10 assign.
b visited some OF the largest lumber
, yards, and IL is fact, every pile wa
as black as wcll-kcpt cook stove. Not
sign OF new stock or symptoms Of
/ activity. Dealers assured me thcy
we're doing absolutely nothing. We
think lumber Is dun on the bay, but
It's fact, there Is more going int
consumption today on Belllnghau
p bay than IN this city Of 2OO,OD
! peOple. Then talk about weather
, about climate, II you could bottle th'
, good qualities Of the space frOm
! Olympia % the Missouri river, anC
! cOnfine the same 10 one average Kan
sas county, the whole goodness wOult
not equal the delightful, enjoyable
life-gi wing air OF WhatcOm count.
alone, and while we can't subsst Ol
4 that air alone, and II will not pa
! notes at O'Clock or before bank closes
! yet ! tell you certain, Colonel tha
: air goes a mighty ways towards help
ing when compared with the country
2 have passed through and now writ
, from, and certain as you are alive Tn,
q persons who kick about the climate o
Fairhayen ought 10 live "A while II
Hades. And those who are now com
planning 50 bitterly OF duh time
a should take a trip East, and they val
/, soon conclude there Is no reason for
"kickingn about home as there Is ab
'' sOlutely more sign Of life and improve
: ment In Fairhaven than | have seer
: since leaving Portland. Multltudes 0
; people are deslrOus OF going 10 Wash
] ington TO make homes, but can gc
nothing for their holdings here wit
I, which TO go. No, let the man VIII
y has half a fOOthOld In Fairhayen han
, on, his hopes will be realized. sOOne
than by change. One swallow doe
u not make spring, neither does one du
: year destroy a business proposition
= Stay there, you will win.
q j. S. MUNDY.
AMONG THE CHURCHES