During August Dan Harris sold thirteen lots grossing $2,425 at with prices ranging from $62.50 (16 lots for $1,000) to $225. Three transactions took place on the 2nd, when he sold Lot 1 in Block 14 at the northeast corner of 13th and Knox to George W. Burger for $150, Lot 7 in Block 44 on the north side of McKenzie between 4th and 5th to John W. Manly for $175 and, for the same price, Lot 7 in Block 43 on the north side of McKenzie between 5th and 6th to Ferdinand G. Manly. On August 8th, Dan conveyed two lots to Malcom McKechnie for a total of $250, these being Lot 6 in Block 36 on the east side of 12th between Harris and McKenzie and Lot 7 in Block 37 on the east side of 12th between the same cross streets.

    August produced two more problematic transactions. On August 6, 1883, Dan Harris issued a $1,600 bond for deed to James Weed and C. A. Mann covering nine lots in Fairhaven, Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of fractional Block 15 (on 13th Street between Knox and Columbia Streets) and Lots 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 of Block 32 (bounded by Mill, 12th, Harris and 11th Streets). Evidently, this transaction was never consummated as no subsequent deeds were recorded naming either Weed or Mann as grantors of property in Fairhaven. Dan Harris sold Lots 6 and 7 of Block 15 to Thomas York for a total of $200 on May 24, 1854. These two lots, along with Lot 1 of Block 17 in Whatcom, were sold by Thomas York and others to Morris McCarty, for a total price of $1,200 on June 5, 1889. These two lots were included among the lots excepted from the Bennett sale and the remaining seven lots were not, indicating that they were a part of the residual property that Dan Harris sold to Nelson Bennett in 1889.

    On August 13th Dan Harris issued a $1,000 bond for deed to sell tideland Blocks 10 and 11 in their entirety to Robert Knox, Angus Rankin and Benjamin E. Musser on condition that the grantees would construct a twenty-five horsepower sawmill on the premises and put it into operation before October 13, 1883. The text of the agreement indicates that Dan Harris received a $20 down payment on the date it was signed, with the $980 bal-ance being due on or before October 13th. Evidently, the three grantees constructed a mill and operated it briefly and never paid Dan Harris the balance due as stated in a complaint he filed with the Third District Court on January 30, 1885. On June 9, 1885 the court ordered the defendants either to pay the $980 due to Dan Harris, plus interest at one per-cent per annum from October 13, 1883, or to forfeit all claims to the property. The court file contains a stipulation by the defendants that should the court rule in favor of the plaintiff he would be obligated to purchase the fixed improvements that they had made to the property for $150.

    Dan Harris sold only two lots in September 1883 for $200 each. In October he sold eleven lots in only four transactions, grossing $1,475. Lot prices during the month ranged from $125 to $200. The largest sale of the month was of the eight lots in the unnumbered block directly south of Block 43 (which would have been Block 53) to P. J. Hennelly for $1,000 ($125 per lot). This block lay on the south side of McKenzie Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets.

    Under the caption, "Fairhaven Notices" a mid-October issue of the Whatcom Reveille announced that "Judge Gazeley is putting up a two-story building, 16x20: D. J. Harris is building a two-story 13x30."

    The names Crowder, Carey and L. H. Woodin do not appear among those of the individ-uals to whom Dan Harris sold property or among those who later purchased land in Fair-haven. On October 10th, Dan Harris did sell Lot 5 in Block 43 to Wellington A. Woodin for $200. Within two weeks, Wooden opened a grocery store in Fairhaven. If it was on his lot, it must have been in an existing building or else constructed in haste. During October, Dan Harris did sell one lot to Fred Bissell as noted above.

    Dan Harris sold only one lot in November, Lot 3 in Block 4 to William I. Baker, for a price of $125.

    In the month of December Dan Harris sold six more lots for prices between $100 and $125 and realized a total of $650. This brought the total number of lots sold during 1883 to 234 and total receipts to $21,335. December sales involved another anomaly. On the 18th of December, Dan Harris sold Lot 7 in Block 16 and Lots 2, 3 and 4 in Block 17 to William LaPlain for $450 ($112.50 per lot). The first three lots were later listed as exemptions in the deed to Nelson Bennett. However, Lot 4 in Block 17 is not, despite the fact that LaPlain was the owner at the time. LaPlain sold the East one-half of Lot 4, along with the East one-half of Lot 3 to Harry G. Green and George H. Strader for $3,000 on October 26, 1889. LaPlain transferred the West one-half of Lots 3 and 4 to Lillie A. LaPlain on November 10, 1891 as part of a $13,500 transaction that included properties in New Whatcom and Bellingham. Hence, the omission of Lot 4 in Block 17 from the exemptions to the Bennett sale was an error.

    During 1884 Dan Harris sold only ten lots, five in January, two in May, one in July and two in November, receiving a total of $1,425, with prices being spread from $100 to $200 (See Appendices 1, 2 and 3)..

    Dan Harris sold just two lots in 1885, Lot 5 in Block 18 (bounded by Columbia, 12th, Knox and 11th Streets) and Lot 3 in Block 19 just to the west. These transactions took place on November 6th, an entire year after his last sale. The grantee in both instances was E. Julius Pester of Skagit County and the price was $375 for the two lots. Bertha L. Harris, Dan's wife of only three weeks, cosigned the deed. During the years 1886, 1887 and 1888, Dan Harris sold no lots. His only transaction during that period was the repurchase on April 27, 1887 for $300 of the two lots he had sold to E. J. Pester in 1885 for $375. No reason was found for the repurchase, although Pester's having moved to San Diego, CA in the interim may have had been a factor.