Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-06-21
A BIG SCHEME
Willard and Associates to Establish a
New CITY

Fllldru ana Associates TO ESTABLISH a
New City
The current issue of the Helena Inde-
pendent contains the following:
A prominent representative of Henry
Willard says that corterie of millionaires
interested in the North American COM
pany and its numerous holdings, includ-
ing the Milwaukee street car lines and
electric light plants, are about to estab
fish new city in Washington, which
they expect will become the metropolis of
the Pacific coast. The details OF the big
project have not been made public yet,
but 1t is understood that a point advan-
tageously situated for harbor facilities
and future railroad connections has been
selected, and the land needed for a large
city has been purchased. To this point
the railroads controlled by the syndicate
will head, and it will be made the great
outlet for. the products of the far North
west, and the shipping point for the China
and Japan trade. 1t will be built near
the seacOst, so as to do away with the
long round about voyage through Puget
sound which vessels from Tacoma and
Seattle have TO make. The Northern Pa
cific road will be extended from Tacoma
to the new town, which will become its
western terminus. Henry Willard, Charles
l.. Colby, Colgate Hoyt and the other
rich men who are behind the
North American are the owners of
the American Steel Barge com
pany, which has immense works at West
Superior, and it is part of the project to
establish big branch at the new city for
the building of line of ocean freighters
for the Japan and other trades.
The plan is to build the boats for a line
to be operated by the syndicate itself.
This line Is expected to knock out the
English trade with China and Japan by
furnishing direct route for pouring the
products of the great northwest into
those countries. 1t Is said that the boats
will be able to make the trip from the
new city to Yokohama in about fifteen
days, less than half the time consumed by
the English vesself.
Frederick Weyhauser, the great lum-
herman, is interested in the project, and
the opening up of the vast tim Der regions
through favorable outlet Is a part OF the
plan. The white pine of Michigan and
Wisconsin is practically exhausted, and 1t
is only a matter of few years when the
west and northwest will have to fall back
upon the soft woods of the Pacific Coast
for a lumber supply. and the syndicate is
getting ready for the trade when it comes.
John ID. Rockefeller, of Standard oil fame.
is also interested in the project.
From the above article no other conclu-
sion can be Inferred than the fact that
the proposed city VIII De located near
Fairhaven. Bellingham bay is conceded
by even the most enthusiastic sup
porters of rival towns, to be the finest
harbor on Puget sound, and in fact on
the Pacific coast. For the purposes
named in the article, no place could offer
equal inducements. 1t Is near the ocean,
and will Obviate the long, tedious round
about trip to Seattle, Tacoma and other
down Sound points. As manufacturing
center Fairhaven presents advantages
over any and all points. Coal, one Of the
main requisites, is here in abundance,
while iron ore is found in close proximity
in practically unlimited quantities. Bel
bingham bay is the very center of the
great timber belt, and logging and lumber
is already its chief industry.
Taking all these facts into considera-
tion the most eligible site for the new city
will be on Bellingham bay, and in that
event Fairhaven will not be any the
loser.