Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-06-16
FAIRHAVEN'S FUTURE

Today there are living in Denver,
Colorado, men who are immensely !
wealthy because they were too poor
TO get away when the stampede TO
Cheyenne came. The Union Pacific
railroad was surveyed TO the latter
place and Denver was left l0s miles
TO the south, and notwithstanding the
far better natural resources OF Den
yer, almost every man who could
raise team of any kind bundled his
"plunder" into wagon and toiled
northward TO Cheyenne, where was
quickly built a city Of shreds and
patches, a city Of slabs and dug-Outs
and tents, and Immediately following
that Cheyenne had a greater popula-
ton than IL has ever had since. albeit
IL is now one of the handsJmest built
cities OF its size-about 1000 popula-
tion-in the United States. The rail-
road came and went on, and Cheyenne
was little else than any other frontier
way station. 1t has since developed
other resources, however, and has
grown 10 be a city, though not larger
than Fairhaven is now, and il is about
% years old Denver had great
resources, and when the place took
another start became great city. Its
population today is perhaps 10000,
and its architecture is superb, massive,
costly; many millionaires are num-
bered among its population, and it has
the strongest commercial pulse Of any
city in the Rocky Mountain region.
This is a truthful story that would
fit many other towns and cities In the
west. Many have had similar expert
ences, and as TO the individuals who
have made OF lost fortunes, as the
case may have been, In staying with OF
leaving a young city, no fair estimate
can be made. The straying off after
some ignis fatuus in the nature Of a
new boom has been the fatal mistake
of many a man.
There are not many persons leaving
Fairhayen during these times Of com
parative quiet and business depres-
sion, but there are few, and they are
to be pitied. They will wish them
selves back thousand times.
There Is not place on earth with
better natural resources, or in better
position geographically and Topographic
cally, and here will be one OF the great
est Of the many great cities on the
Pacific Coast, as sure as the world
lives. There is some dizziness now IL
is true, and 1t is also true Of every
city, old or new, in the entire republic.
Especially here, for some reasons the
present business hiatus is a good thing
IL will at least teach a valuable les
son, one that has been taught by every
city that has grown on American soil
within the last quarter OF a century,
but which must always be taught
again, and especially to newcomers.
In the building OF a new city thou.
sands rush in, nearly every man OF
whom is sanguine Of becoming rich In
little time. When they do not they
are disappointed and become dis
gruntled and carping. They expected
to get rich easily and by ways on
which the commercial statute of llmi.
tations has long ago run. They are
not content to settle down to some
plain, old-fasbioned business PROPOSE.
ton and stay with 1t until IL works
out its own salvation which II nearly
always does.
When one cannot do this he should
not blame Fairhayen, but his own
lack OF business strength. There are
men in this city today who have made
thousands here from almost nothing