Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-08-14
AN INDEPENDENT" VIEW
What a Conservative and Influential
Paper Saws of FairhaYen


Paper Says of Fairhaven
In its issue of July 2S the New York
Independent, one of the ablest and
most conservative weekly newspapers
in the United States, has the following
editorial on its financial page. Fair
haven is to be congratulated on receiv-
ing such hattering recognition from a
journal of such great influence:
" The Fairhaven Land Company, of
Fairhaven, Washington, has issued the
second revised edition of the map ofthe
Puget Sound country, containing a vast
amount of exceedingly useful informa.
ton in regard to that not very we'll
known portion of the Republic; and we
presume it can be obtained by writing
to the Fairhaven Land Company and
asking for it. The wonder of the Puget
Sound country grows the more we
know it. 1t is really stupendous
Fairhaven is situated on Bellingham
Bay, an offshoot, as it were, OF the
great Puget Sound. This Bellingham
Bay with water varying in depth from
four and half to twenty-siX fathoms,
is large enough to furnish anchorage
for the entire shipping of the Pacific
ocean. Its nearly surrounded by land,
having deep water passages in several
directions. Fairhaven Is the most
northern city of any prominence in the
state of Washington, being only about
twenty miles from British Columbia.
Tributary to Fairhaven, and within
radius of from ten to fifty miles, is an
exceedingly wonderful country, natur-
ally rich almost beyond belief. Por-
tions of it are singularly adapted to the
cultivation of wheat, oats, potatoes and
fruit, while other portions furnish
seemingly ineXhaustible supplies of the
finest timber in the world, accessible to
numerous streams by which it can be
floated to Puget Sound, There are also
several developed coal fields in which
mining is progressively carried on, and
large shipments are made to other
points on the coast. There are also iron
mines of no incOnsiderable extent.
There are number of railway lines
centering at Fairhaven, the principal
being the Great Northern and the con-
necuon with the Canadian Pacific.
The yield of grain in Eastern Wash
ington is marvellous, the average per
acre for 1890 being 23.5 bushels. The
crop for the state for 1891 was 100000
bushels. The yield Of fruit rivals that
Of California. All kinds of fruits are
grown in great quantities and the
finest qualities, some of the best apple
orchards yielding about $500 an acre
and prunes over 81 900. 1t is estimated
that the amount of merchantable tim
ber now standing i'm the state is fully
300, ,000, 100000 feet distributed over
O,0O0,O 900 acres Of land. 1t Is stated
that thousands of acres will average
over 100000 feet, and in several cases
the enormous amount of 100000 feet
has been cut from a single acre, many
of the trees being 300 feet in height.
Fairhaven is the natural shipping and
supply point for large portion of
Western Washington, and this ac-
counts for its steady, continuous and
rapid growth. The climate Of Western
Washington is mild, equable and
healthful, the differences in extremes
between summer and winter being on
Puget sound only twenty-five degrees.
Grass Is green and growing through
the year. Fairhaven is well supplied
with all the accessories Of modern civil
iZation, electric lights, street cars, water
works, excellent schools, fine churches
and magnificent residences. Its future,
we believe, will without doubt show
a wonderfully rapid, steady and relia-
BILE growth