The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-25

- URTEG the rnenorHbte Bsaire-
NN Cleveland campaign IN fsss there
V wss born the city 0. Blaine, the
- meat norsAzsStersy tcwa Efts13n
W. the limits CT the E-its4 States
1t was named In tzosser ~ the
atzndaTd-Dearer Of taa Republican hosts by
Gen. IL r. Mcpherson. wno EA0x resides
On his farm. at Norm Prairie. The t0w'n
WAk plated original. on a quarter saetien
Of land bordering tire British CoIcfnbla
Boundary nue wnera II touches saI water.
Tins land al THAI time was Owned BY JOAN
Cain and his sogs, Cornelius. James ana
George Cain. who afterTarS FORMED the
weis-known firm o. Cain Bros.
This was 10. tie fiat attempt 70 found
. city at tAfa. geegg2 fssk'assy speaking. aa-
snirab1y ssissa ted 9o@Fsf, FOR n she year
1855. wEsr tho exc4ts 1T incidental 70 the
discovery of tie fssEo1gs GaFsfs1o god re-
gion mas o. IS Eesgkf. there existed within
fiae rseaens corporate limits OF Bsains the
Oh town OF ge1Dlanrxsso. A nufSa5er % pies
which formed portion o. q wharf extend
ing from Hsas the foot OF Cnerrg s1Fesi 10
deep water gsisI atafd az the oily land
marks OF that once fsourLssagng httls city.
After sss founding. Blaine took on fer a
number OF years little or no growth. Ges-
sala railway projects looking 10 The uniting
or the cities az the upper Sound vita the
Canadian Pacific Fers slow IA their asysl-
cpfnsnt, and rot until February. 1851. ol3
Blaine finally sse Il Efore isiis eofn2ieEes
from Geatfe TO TIE Fraser river. During
the building Of this xfaa Bsa4s boonae3.
There was mach stir IN real estate circles.
and the town g2raELg up az Il ~ HiaSae-
ar she course or SIX months * Nas
busting ciey. bat city without Industries
Then the boom burst boorns DO pretty
much everywhere. When the inevitable
GnsIIy came and Blaine people clearly "a :"
thar IL takes more than town lots 20 make
q city every enc went TO work 10 make
she town seif-snpfsoEtiBg. Industries ware
invited 10 come: were. in fact, offered ia
JUDGEMENTS TO come. Some came and some
ia not. and zoTne even. were not as great
. xfosperlf ~ makers for the town ar her eIti~
sens thought they would De. Bar B!dsuc
people were made OF the proper metal so
fhey kept on in their eH6savors. They
knssw something Of TIE superior ulanufac-
atx.ng advantages offered by the Blaine
water front They knew. too. that In front
OF them waa an open highway fer cnfn-
merce. that In front Of them sae wafer
fairly teemsng with the most delicious food
fshes Tnsy knew that 20 the east Of the
tewn s.rescfsed f3r miles the most fertile
valley In Western Washington, a valley
whose lands are not only rich aud pro-
duc;ive, but lsve, ard well watered also.
And nlisd with filss knowledge, they iabored
hopefully aud perseaeriiisiy
H;aine ie az 7 have already stated 10
Gated I'm the extreme northwestern part OF
Wbateoru COUNTY. at the point where the
Internal orssl boundary reaches salt wafer.
n frants ns. the waters Of SefntahrDoo lay
end r,faytou harbor. IN. former Is large.
smaa,h body of water of even and mod
eraf. feptfs some twelve miles In width.
r.ha tatiar is lana~iocked harbor a mile
Ard half broad and three mites long. con-