Fairhaven Buys Itself a Mill, and Seventy Jobs

Fairhaven, May 5.—Special.—Seventeen hundred dollars of the $2,500 subsidy asked for by Fleming & Ayerst for the establishment of a large lumber and shingle mill business here has been pledged. The people have responded promptly and liberally, and the establishment of an industry of considerable importance now seems assured. It is to add to the present plant of the old Heacock, or Pacific Coast Trading Company mill, a first-class shingle plant and a large dry house, and as soon as possible a sash and door factory. At the outset the business of the mill will be confined principally to shingles, siding and interior finish, and the output will be about three car loads a day. Seventy to eighty men will be employed, and the pay roll will amount to $3,000 or $4,000 a month. It is reported that a ground lease for fifteen years has been secured. Hereafter the Great Northern would not lease any ground in that locality except upon the prohibitory condition of removal of buildings within sixty days if demanded. The mill is located on the water front, and the Great Northern railway crosses the mill wharf only two blocks from the depot. The shipping facilities are first-class except to points reached only by the Northern Pacific and Burlington lines, to reach which a haul to Furnas, on the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern, over the Great Northern to Sehome Junction, two miles, and thence over the B. B. & B. C. road or over the Great Northern to the Seattle Northern at Burlington is necessary.