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May 2, 1888: D. J. Harris, of Fairhaven returned to the bay from lower California where he has been for the winter for his wife's health. Dan says that his return was caused by the urgent requests of certain gentlemen connected with railroad enterprises. 53 May 4, 1888: Dan Harris, of Fairhaven, and W. Roehl of Sehome have returned from California. They come home to catch onto the boom. 54 May 11, 1888: Dan Harris has been offered $50,000 for his Fairhaven property by two California men, but the transfer has not yet been made. 55 July 20, 1888: It is said by persons who claim to know that Dan Harris wanted $87,000 and a reserve of 140 lots for the Fairhaven property. That is probably why Nelson Bennett did not terminate his coal road at that place. The county assessor should take this valuation into consideration in making up his roll. 56 August 29, 1888: Mr. Dan Harris, of Los Angeles, Cal., was in town Tuesday, shaking hands with his old friends. 57 October 5, 1888: Mr. Dan Harris, the heavey Fairhaven land owner, says that he and the citizens of Bellingham will give in land or cash $100,000 to the first railroad to the Bay at that place which shall have a connection with a transcontinental line. This is indeed a liberal offer. 58 October 19, 1888: Even Dan Harris has dropped from $75,000 and started to Tacoma on Monday for the purpose of accepting Bennett's offer of $50,000 for his Fairhaven town site, in order to help the boom along. Messrs. Bartlett, Harris and Piercy were to have met Mr. Bennett in consultation yesterday at Tacoma. 59 October 26, 1888: Dan Harris has returned from his visit to Nelson Bennett at Tacoma, but gives no satisfactory answer whether he has sold out Fairhaven to the railroad builder. Dan is packing up to go to California and says Mr. Bennett will be here in a few days. These straws may show which way the wind blows. 60 November 9, 1888: Dan Harris has been called to the bedside of his wife, who is ding of consumption, in Los Angeles, California. 61 November 14, 1888: Dan Harris started Friday for Los Angeles in response to a telegram stating that his wife is very sick at that place. 62 November 16, 1888: Mr. Bennett said he had an option with Dan Harris for the purchase of Fairhaven townsite at a figure between $50,000 and $75,000, and that he was ready to begin work at Fairhaven as soon as the papers between himself and the citizens were properly signed, agreeing that half the land bonus should be paid to him when the railroad shall be half constructed and the balance to be paid on completion of the road to the Skagit river. 63 January 11, 1889: The Fairhaven hotel has been taken charge by a gentleman connected with Bennett & Co., who will soon open and run it. 64 Mar. 22, 1889: Dan Harris says he will either build an opera house at Fairhaven or return to Los Angeles. No doubt it will be the latter. 65 (Note I) < Back - Table of Contents - Obituaries >