The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-10-14
FAIR A BIG ASSET OF
COUNTY, HE DECLARES
Head of Realtors Enthusiastic Con.
cerning Exhibition At Lynden; He
Tells of Benefits

about the most important event o.
the year, from a realtors stand
point" commented Percy Livesey
president of the Bellingham Real Els
tate association, yesterday. I'VE arc
called upon in the line of our bust
ness to talk up the resources of What
com county and the fertility of oul
soil. There is natural doubt il
the minds of our hearers that oul
point of view however honestly ex
sire to sell real estate. But at the
Fair we can show the goods. The
fruit and vegetables and blue-blood-
ed stock are there to prove our as
sertions.
Every realtor should to my mind
take a day off to devote to seeing the
Fair. 1t would be better If he took
two or three days and put in the time
eloating over tn, Exhibits which con-
stitute demonstration of his own
veracity He should do this for the
good of his own soul and to deepen
his convictions about the entire desir-
ability of being a citizen and a prop
erty owner in a region which showed
such abundance of production.
PERSONALLY l feel that the breed
ers of the Jerseys, Holsteins, Guern-
seys and other fine herds of stock
which stood in the long lines of stalls
at the Fair have been up-builders OF
the community welfare to far great
er degree than we realize. Certain
ly every realtor should realize that
he would have a mighty small turn
over in his particular line of busi-
ness if such men were not patiently
working out the practical problems
of dairying and spreading the fair
name of our county far and wide by
their success. Such men as these
are showing the way to every new
conner of profit sheets. They benefit
not only themselves but they contin-
ually level up the standards OF sue
cess in dairying and stock-breeding
higher and higher. If We would stop
and consider how much more every
acre of agricultural land is worth
than if it were sold on the old ba-
sis of values dependent on scrub cows
fowls of the mongrel. barn-yard type
and the use of seeds which ignored
the careful experimentation OF the
last quarter of century, we will give
praise where it is due and that is to
the farmer with the forward look
Take reproducing. The practi-
cal. poultry men of this country have
made our Bellingham district ia
nous. 1t is known as one of the great
egg-producing sections OF the United
States. They have done this to theif
own profit it is true but in doing SO
have added dollars to the value OF
every tract suitable for poultry-rals-
ing purposes. We realtors sell those
tracts and sell them easily in these
DAYS because they have demonstrated
what can be done. So when we walk
ed thru the rows of coops in which
the great producing strains or poul'
try were represented it was up to ev'
cry city dweller to give credit TO the
poultry-raisers whose enterprise ano
scientific knowledge has done sc
much to raise land values IN TINS
county and to sustain business ii
every aspect because of the money
they have put in circulation.
1.-The Bellingham district is fortu
nate in having within its limits oil
adjacent to this city as distribut
ing center a great variety of re
sources. We have coal and the busi
ness of developing the mines ant
handling it is but in its infancy; we
have timber which comes into this
city on trains and trucks in the form
of logs and goes to all parts OF th'
world in lumber; we have position
which makes our city a natural cen
ter for fishing operations; most Of al
we have a marvellous variety VI a6i
cultural resources and these too WI
are only beginning to develop. U
all our resources, I would place th'
value of those which we CLASSIFY a
AGRICULTURAL as greatest by far. upoI
their development depends the sta
bility and greatness of Bellingham t.
no small degree.
1T is with a great deal OF prid'
that l follow from year to year tn
evolution of the Whatcom Count.
Fair. / believe it is now most for
tunately situated at Lynden where l
has a prosperous agricultural com
muuity and one of the livest small
towns in the United States solidly be
hind il. The whole county owes tn
Ivnden community debt OF graft
,nde for the manner in which it ha
huilt up and sustained a Fair whicI
nos become one of the very best Il
the whole Northwest. Let US Civ