Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-06-06
TIE PORT GARDNER GAG

A special from Seattle to the New
York Press, is intended to boom Port
Gardner at the expense of better
places on the Sound. The dispatch
in the Press is headed, New Workers
to Build a City," In the course of the
high sounding puffs of Port Gardner,
and promises of what a syndicate of
wealthy manufacturers are going to
do there the Seattle dispatch says,
however:
There have been all kinds of rumors re-
garding the availability OF the shore be-
tween Seattle and Vancouver for town
sites. President Hill, of the Great North
ern, has pinned his faith on Fairhaven,
which is about half way between Seattle
and Vancouver He made a careful sur
yey of the coast and found at Fairhaven
very good anchorage ground, and II Is
probable that the place will be made the
terminus of his railroad. He claims that
the water is 500 feet deep at Port Gardner.
| The rivalry between the various railway
syndicates Interested in these new towns
Is very intense, and only time can de-
| termine who has chosen the site on which
will be built the greatest city on the
Pacific coast, the rival OF New York for
commercial supremacy.
The advertising effort to build a
city at Port Gardner is one of the
boldest and most colossal character
and it is probable that an immense
fund will be used, in the most power
full ways possible among Influential
newspapers and in the most audacioui
ways. The dispatch in the New Yorl
Press is over column, In small type
in the first columns of the front page
and is ably and forcibly written, anC
with sufficient tact to give Fairhaver
a very comfortable sop, as witness, 70
instance, the following, also clipped
from the same dispatch;
] One live Eastern man learned Of wha
was going on, and he Is giving the syndt
cate little trouble. Senator Church
son of Sanford +. Church OF New York
was out this way a few months ago, ant
bought ten acres at 800 an acre. lie ha
been offered $500 an acre within lev
weeks, but is waiting for more. He wa
In the New York legislature once upon
time and knows how to abide his time
7 President Cleveland appointed him gov
ernor of Dakota afterward, and he be
came great friend of President Hill O
) the Great Northern. Ii is more than sus
, pected that Hill put him up TO blockin
the plans of the syndicate. III the Grea
Northern should come down to Everett
% aud build It's shops on these ten acres G
I. q 'ound, the place would certainly booI
10 very phenomenal way. Presiden
: Hin has purchased so much land nea
FaIrhaven, however. and he lays SO niue
stress on the necessity for good anchor
I age, that the chances are largely In fave
a OF Fairhaven being the terminus OF b
road
The dispatch says that Port Care
. ner's name is to be changed to Everett
. In memory of a son OF Charles
. Colby, and concerning the site {
= Everett 1t says;
1t is gloriously located, with the Ca,
,, cades on the north, the Olympics on IL
I west, the most picturesque part OF u
!. Sound and frightfully deep water at |
doors. The Snohomsh river. navigab
fertile district, washes the town site Gle;
and clean Of all miasma. A more love-
or more seductive sight for magic Gil
could not be found. In point OF view
l. far excels Seattle, but no one can get ric
on the beauty of the view, and so IL
l. proposed to turn this lovely spot into
@ smoking Plttsburg or noisy Birmingham
n Then very cutely the author Of Il
n dispatch declares that Mr.. Plumme
!" the mysterious New York manage
is for the all-powerful syndicate, "