The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-28

acres of land. including nearly all tn
frontage of Chuckanut cove or bay
part OF Bellingham bay. This land II
| well adapted to be used as the termi
nus OF an extensive railway system
and has little value for any other pur
pose. Chuckanut cove is two miles
long from north to south, and half q
| mile wide, with an entrance a mile and
| haf across, and two islands in the
line OF the entrance. The water is from
three to seven fathoms deep at low
tide. and the shore is solid ground with
good opportunities for building
wharves. The land, however, begins tc
rise near the water into high hills Sc
that though there is room for ware
houses and shops there is none for resi-
dences. and the people employed in the
| terminal buildings and yards must find
their homes outside OF the tracts re-
Gently conveyed to the company.
For several years Seattle. as the
largest city on the sound, has hoped
to obtain the shops. terminal grounds
and main western Offices of the Great
Northern; and recently when Mr.. Hill
was there a party of local capitalists
urged him to buy from them. at a
moderate price. a large tract of valu-
able water front property in their
town, but he refused because, he said.
his company must have its terminus
and the cost of land and wharves
would be less than at the one which
they offered to him. No other spot
equally good could be found at Seattle,
and his decision meant removal to an
other city. The notice of the intention
to abandon Hillyard, the purchase of
the land at Chuckanut and the rejec-
ton Of the Seattle offer. all occurring
wsthin a period of a few weeks are evil
IDENTIFY parts of the same plan of now
making a permanent terminus on the
waters of Puget sound.
"Bellingham bay is about 10 miles
long from north to south and five miles
wide from east ITO west, with an aver
age depth of about IL fathoms, and
good holding ground and excellent an
chorage for all it's shipping. Its chief
town is New Whatcom, the shire town
or Whatcom county, possessing about
10000 Inhabitants. and a large area of
level land about 80 feet above the sea,
with room for a very large population
Immediately adjoining II on the south
Is the town of Fairhaven, and a mile
south of that is Chuckanut cove. which
latter place has been notable hitherto
for nothing save its quarry of excellent
sandstone, much used in the costly
stone buildings of the cities on the
sound. The Nooksack river empties
into the northern end of BellingA1am
10Y oho o"tCbclS It's waters so tnaI the
teredo is not so destructive to piles as
at many other places on the sound
Besides it's line across the continent
the Great Northern has a coast road
from Seattle through Everett and New
Whatcom to New Westminster in Brit
tsh Columbia: and can reach it's new
terminus at Chuckanut by construct
ing about two miles Of additional
track"
!. 1t is also reported that the pictur-
esque switchback over the Sierra Me-
vada mountains will be abandoned and
that the mountains will be crossed
through tunnel a mile and a quarte.
long at the Cascade pass. The line
will then, II is said, follow the Skagit
river on the Western slope. passing
some valuable coal mines in which the
railroad company is interested and
strike the sound first at Fairhaven.
A. w. Mech of Chicago has been an
pointed city ticket agent of the Great
Northern to succeed Z. s. Blair, and
Will arrive in Butte on Monday. e. s.
Blair, the retiring city ticket agent. |
Will assume his new duties as general |
agent of the o. r. & N. at Helena on |
Wednesday, but he will probably re- |
main in Butte several days after that |
time. While his headquarters will be |
IN Helena he will spend a great deal of |
his time in RItte