The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-10-12

Co., Tor coal and hat-cars to Fsirhaveu
Foundry & Machine Go. and for logpinu
cars to the Oregon Improvement Co,
and Washington Iron Works of Seattle.
Meanwhile locomotive and stationary
engines, steel rails and other necessary
material were purchased, and in Nav.
1892, the first locomotive whistle blew af
the lake, and on June 8th the first train
load Of coal was dumped in the extern
sive bunkers on the bay. On June Both.
1892, the road was formerly opened by
an excursion given to contributors tn
right-Of-way fund and the work which
had been accomplished at an expendi.
ture of over 100000 was examined.
The building of mills and opening of
logging camps on Lake Whatcom. with
its % miles of shore line, caused the
company in the fall of 1892 to build the
steamer Ella of 90 horse power and &C.
commodations for 100 passengers. Hav-
ing two large barges and this steamer.
cars are placed at any point on the lake,
brought into town and delivered to the
B. b. u B. G. r. r. for either the Great
Northern or Canadian Pacific at q uni
form charge of ten dollars per car.
Much Of this charge will be absorbed by
these roads soon. Coal is brought from
any point on the lake when offered in ten
ton lots or more at eeventy-fiVe cents
per ton. General freight charges be
tween town and any point on the lake
vary from Is cents for quantities less
than LOO pounds to 81 per ton. Logs
are taken from any camp on the lake.
towed to r r boom, loaded, hauled in
and unloaded at Ocean boom for $1.4O
per thousand. These rates and facilities
have cansed a rapid development of the
timber and coal resources around the lake
and there are now two shingle mills.
one saw mill, one developed coal mine.
three coal prospects being developed, land
five logging camps on the lake.
The timber tributary to the lake is
variously estimated at from 500 to 1000
million feet, of which about one-fourth
is cedar, the balance being fir. Several
RATS of this timber have been cut at up.
sound points and on the bay, giving ex-
cellent satisfaction.
The B. B. & E r. r. owns the coal
bunkers on the bay, built at cost of over
SIS, 900, and it handles the entire out
put of the Blue Canyon coal mine over
it's track. A franchise was obtained a
year ago for new line through the York
and Garfield additions, connecting the
company's terminals Independent of the
street railway. This line is four miles
long and will undoubtedly be built with
in the year. There is also a probability
that the line may be extended from
some point on the lake to connection
with the S. L S. & E. R. r. in the near
future, thus bringing trade direct to the
bay which now only gets here by circuit
out routes, or is diverted altogether.
Improvement in the lumber market and
development of coal properties is sure
to give this line large freight traffic in
the near future. The company has
freight rooms in the Underwood Minturn
block and sidings for receiving and de-
livering freight at North Elk street, r.
+. avenue, opposite Sehome dock, and
at ocean bunkers.
The handling of logs over this line is
one of the interesting sights of the bay,
they being loaded at the lake by the
help of an engine and wire cable at the
rate of 100000 feet per day and dumped
into the boom at the bunkers, from an
elevation of fifty feet, with splash and
tossing OF spray well worth seeing.