For some unknown reason, Dan Harris made no lot sales during the month of June 1883. Perhaps, he was preoccupied with the completion of his hotel on the southwest corner of 4th and Harris, the construction of which had begun sometime in the prior four months. Such a conclusion is plausible judging from the following notices which appeared in the Whatcom Reveille on June 15th³⁷and June 29th: ³⁸

  Fairhaven is just what the name repre-
  sents nestled on Harris Bay where Daniel
J. Harris first landed nearly thirty years
   ago. The town has not long been laid out,
   but there is a good hotel and several hou-
ses already built, and a large saw mill in
prospect.                                            

      Mr. Harris, of Fairhaven, has painted his
    hotel, which improves its appearance very
    materially.                                                

   Dan' hotel was built on Lots 5, 6 and 7 in Block 25 facing west at the corner of 4th and Harris Streets. Because the north sides of these lots were in the tidelands, Dan chose to build across three lots rather than in line with one, which would have necessitated supporting the rear of the structure on pilings driven into the bay. Dan's dock was built at the foot of 4th Street just 100 feet from the hotel's main entrance. To see the floor plan of the hotel and photographs of the hotel taken in 1886, 1890, 1896 and 1903 click on [View]. The 1890 photo shows the dock after it had been extended by the Fairhaven Land Company and had a railroad siding laid on it. The 1890 and 1896 photos show Dan's one hundred foot flagpole standing on the west side of 4th Street northwest of the hotel. (For multiple articles that mention the hotel and flagpole, see Dan Harris Meets the Press.)

   Dan resumed his sales activity in July closing on twenty-nine lots to thirteen buyers. On the 2nd he sold four more lots to Charles Schering for $450 or $112.50 each.³⁹ These were Lot 1, 2, 3 and 4 in Block 8 on the east side of 12th Street between Gambier and Knox. On the 5th he sold Lots 7 and 8 in Block 7 at the corner of 12th and Gambier to Malcom McKechnie for $275 or $137.50 apiece.⁴⁰ These two lots across the street from the four lots Schering had purchased three days earlier. On July 7th Dan sold Lot 1 in Block 13 at the northeast corner of 12th and Knox to John J. Gunn for $150.⁴¹ On the 9th he sold Lot 1 in Block 4 at the northeast corner of 13th and Douglas to L. E. Bailey for $150.⁴² On the same day Dan sold Lots 5, 6,⁴³ 7 and 8⁴⁴ in Block 5 to John B. Phinney for $550 or $137.50 per lot. These lots comprised the western half of a block lying on the eastern edge of the plat. This transaction involved two five-year lease on two lots each with a one-year option to purchase running at an interest rate of 12%. This option was never exercised and all four lots reverted to Dan Harris and were included in his 1889 sale to Nelson Bennett of his residual real estate. Consequently, they are excluded from the physical and fiscal totals being tallied here. On July 9th Dan also sold a lot to William Yates for $150.⁴⁵ It was Lot 8 in Block 14, located at the northeast corner of 12th and Gambier Streets.

    Dan's next sales took place on the 11th when he conveyed interior Lot 2 in Block 4 on 13th between Gambier and Douglas to George W. Burger for $125⁴⁶ and interior Lot 6 in Block 44 on McKenzie between 4th and 5th to Carl F. Holmberg at the same price of $125.⁴⁷ On the 13th he sold Lots 7 and 8 in Block 32 at the corner of 11th and Mill to Charles I. Roth for $275, or $137.50 each.⁴⁸ The next day he sold three, corner lots to Malcom McKechnie for a total of 450.⁴⁹ These were Lot 5 in Block 32 at the southwest corner of 11th and Harris, Lot 5 in Block 36 at the southwest corner of 12th and McKenzie and Lot 8 in Block 37 at the corner of 11th and Harris.

   On July 18th Dan sold 8 lots, the first of which was to Elias F. Hemenover for $150.⁵⁰ It was corner Lot 8 in Block 43 at the southeast corner of 6th and McKenzie. That same day Dan sold two more lots to Charles Schering for $125 each.⁵¹ These were interior Lots 2and 3 in Block 38 on the west side of 11th between McKenzie and Harris. On the 18th William T. Sharpe bought four lots, corner Lot 5 on the face of the bluff in Block 9, Lots 5, 6 and 7 in Block 13 on the east side of 11 between Gambier and Knox.⁵² Also sold on the 18th was Lot 1 in Block 17 at the corner of northeast corner of 13th and Columbia which went to James Stanford for $150.⁵³ The final July sale took place on 20th, when Dan conveyed Lot 4 in Block 13 to Louis L. Burns for $150.⁵⁴ This bought Dan's gross receipts for the month of July to $3,950, with an average lot price of $136.21, excluding the aborted transaction with John B. Phinney.

    At this juncture, Dan's mythical tally book would have recorded that he had sold 113 lots and made a bulk sale of one numbered and divided block and eleven unnumbered blocks since February 6th, yielding a total of $17,289.83. Deducting $3,000 for the bulk sale of the mill property, the average lot price would have been $126.46, with the lowest sale price being $100 and the highest being $212.50. While the buyers showed some preference for corner lots, Dan did not seem to adjust his prices accordingly for he sometimes sold interior lots on a block for more than corner lots. The pattern of lot sales through six months showed that 11th Street had the greatest concentration of purchases, with thirty-seven lots sold out of the forty-eight originally available between McKenzie and Douglas. Along 10th Street twenty-nine lots had been sold between the same cross streets. Along 12th Street the seventeen lots had been sold lots, while along 13th Street no lots had been sold, discarding the Phinney transaction. On the south side of Harris Bay, excluding the property associated with the sale of the mill site, only nine lots had been sold, five on Harris and four on McKenzie. Having sold one hundred and twenty lots since the beginning of February, Dan Harris had one hundred and seventy-one lots available going into August 1883.