Farmers Plan Their Own Interurban Railroad

The spirit of railroad construction is prevalent in the land and the farmer proposes to take a hand. He has grown weary and leary of unfulfilled promise on the part of the promoter who fails to promote, and he feels like he would just as leave own the go-cart that is to haul himself and produce to market as to allow the other fellow to own the railway, the right-of-way, the farmer, Betsey and the babies, the old cow and the hen that lays the golden egg and the orchard that hatches the big red apple. The Grange is to take up the proposition of the construction of an interurban line which will connect Mt. View, Lynden, Birch Bay, and Blaine with Ferndale as the terminal point, and, later on, to connect Bellingham with Ferndale by way of a branch line. This being once accomplished, large produce houses will be established both at Ferndale and Blaine, and with the mammoth condensery plant already here, it is hoped that between Ferndale and Blaine the farmers of the Nooksack Valley will have good market facilities independent of Bellingham and the Skagit county interurban. As the farmers already own the right-of-way and all necessary timber, and as they can construct the road-bed after their crops have been laid aside it is figured that this road would pay handsome interest on its cost almost from the start.