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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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porl once a mnulli at police headquarters. The Stone & AVebster Properties on Puget Sound.—II. One of llie smaller companies of the group known as the Stone& Webster railway and lighting properties is the Whatcom CountyRailway & Light Co., of Ecllingham, Wash. Bellingham is thename of the new nnniicipality formed in December last by the con-solidation of the rival cities of Whatcom and Fairhaven on Belling-ham Bay, and is the third place in point of size on Puget Sound,llie Whatcom County company in December. 1902. took over the vcyed by the Bellingham Hay & Rrilish CoUnnbia Raih-oiul luextend across the mountains to Spokane, and should this be carriedthrough, Bellingham will be the nearest tide-water port to Spokane.The territory naturally tributary is nd\ in timber and the agri-cultural possibilities are being rapidly developed. The harbor iswell protected and Bellingham is nearer the Strait of San Juan deFuca, the outlet of Puget Sound, than any other of the sound
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BIRD S-EYE VIEW OK BELLINGHAM. WASH. Northern Railway & Improvement Co.. which oixTated under leasethe 12-mile line of the Bellingham Bay Street Railway Co. andcontrolled the electric lighting business in Fairhaven, the electricpower business in Whatcom and Fairhaven, and the Whatcom &Fairhaven Gas Co. This last company had a short time beforebought the Bellingham Bay Gas Cos. property. The consolidationgave to the new company the electric railway and gas business andthe entire electric lighting business of Fairhaven. The population served by the railway lines of the WhatcomCounty company is about 23,000 and is rapidly increasing, keeping ports; this it is believed will give the city an uiiiiorlanl advaulage,especially in the Alaskan trade. The Bellingham coal fields are the largest yet discovered on llicPacific coast and cover an area of about 250 sq. mi. Back of thecoal lands are the Whatcom County gold fields. The company has 13.7 miles of track (measured as single track),o

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