Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-06

tant, and if one is not satisfied with
one of these three transcontinentaI lines
he can take the Union Pacific from
Seattle.
'Bellingham bay, on which is sit
uated the cities of Fairhaven and New
Whatcom, is a splendid body of water
about twelve miles long and from five
to seven miles wide. Immediately
across the cay is the Lummi Indian
reservation, and beyond it the Straits
of Georgia, through which pass the
Canadian Pacific steamers EN- route for
JAPAN ten days distant. Beyond that
you catch "A glimpse of the mountains
on Vancouver island, while in nearer
view, forming portion of the bays
western limit, are the beautiful islands
Orcas, Lummi, G, press and others
which form the county of San Juan,
famous for prunes Strawberries and
nearly every fruit, save of the tropics,
and remarkable as being the last terri
tory added to the United States by "A
foreign power, the English not having
! finally surrendered them until 1873.
Looking north you have in view the
city of New WhatcOm, while towering
above it, some miles inland, are snow
capped peaks stretching across British
Columbia from Vancouver to the Sci
kirk range. To the east are the hills
shared by Fairhaven with its rival
town, from the summit of which YOU
see Mt Baker, thirty mile away, II 100
feet above the tide-water at your feet;
while if you look south you see Mt.
Chuckanut, whose sides reach down to
the waters of the Bay. And beyond
that the other islands studding the
Sound, aud your eyes finally rest to the
southeast upon the snowy summsts Of
the Olympic range. These ebay ctiesu
are the growth Of the past three years.
WhatcOm existed before, but Fair
haven was yet virgin forests. Its fOun-
ders infused the spirit of enterprise into
the county seat and there is now pop
ulatiOn of about 1900 in the two towns
which are practically one. They have
every modern convenience and surpass
the average eastern town of similar
population in many respects. The
streets are all paved and sidewalked;
electric lights dot both towns and dis
appear in the "outside property, ,"where
the forest trees yet stand. A first-class
electric railway connects the towns and
runs out to Lake Whatcom, seven
miles from Fairhayen, where you can
row, sail or fish on a lake twelve miles
long by from two to three miles wide,
hemmed in among the mountains,
whose sides are pierced for coal, which |
is transported by the electric road to the !
Bay and there loaded upon vessels or
cars for shipment. Whatcom also has |
another electric street railway which is |
seeking admission to Fairhaveu-Fair- |
haven supplies its sister city with
first-class article of illumi mating |
gas-and both towns are well pro-
vided with water. Whatcom's supply |
is ineXhaustible, being the lake |
referred to, Sl6 feet above tide level !
giving pressure that obviates the use
of fire engines. Fairhaven has lake |
of its own, but not so large, and will /
eventually be supplied from Lake
Whatcom. Churches, schools, societies
and all kinds of neutrality-suspicious.
abound. The people are cultivated,
genial and hospitable. There Is no
'wild west" in Washington or any
where else that | have been. The peo-
pie of San Francisco, Portland, Seattle,
Tacoma, Fairhaven, Whatcom and
even smaller towns are up to date, dress
as well as their Eastern brothers and
sisters and behave themselves as well
cosmopolitan and consequently broad
minded. They enjoy the best the East
produces i'm music and drama-all the
favorites visit the Pacific coast-Patti
wanted to sing i'm Seattle but they did
not have a hall; the only thing which
that remarkable city has not. Bern
hardt appeared two nights at Vancou-
yer last summer and they ran special
train from Whatcom to provide for
those who wished to hear her.
"The building in the towns on the
bay are in many instances handsome.
The Fairhaven, a hotel that cost $780,
900, is certainly as good in point of
furnishing and management as any of
the famous hotels anywhere on the
Pacific coast.
81 would advise anyone who wishes
to see his own country not to miss
Puget sound, and he will return as /
did, satisfied that a transcontinental
trip is practically an education. / must
say that | can scarcely recall seeing
anyone in Washington with a wider
brimmed hat than may be seen any
day in Pittsburg-in fact, the widest
and wooliest' man / ever encountered
was on Wood street the other day. He
was 'heeled' with "a six-shooter, had
belt full of cartridges, fringed hunt |
ing coat and sombrero. j am satisfied
that he would have been more of a
curiosity in the extreme northwest cor
ner of these United States than he was
right here"
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