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Show BELLINGHAM IN EARNEST Begins Raising Subsidy foi -.ew Railroad to Spokane- BBLLINOHAM W ash , Nov 16. At a huge niass meeting tonight the project n entl . l.rofich.-.l l,v tne Belllngham chamb'-t of Commerce to rnlse $1.4i'.hi subsidy lo Induce the building of a railroad rail-road eastwurd across tho Cascade mountains, moun-tains, from this city to Spokane, was eulhusliLStb illy Indmsed. fit the amount sought it vas planned to iaise $1 .oot)..sn) wisi of the mountains ami HV.'i east. A soliciting committee announced that this afternoon it had sccur --1 $124,000 in a short time the subscriptions being made by twelve individuals and firms In sums ranging from 11,000 to 140,000 Mosl 1 of ihe heavy Interests In the community were not solicited. Plan Is Explained. The meeting tonight was one of the largesi publlt gatherings ever held in Belllngham, The plan of promoting the rrllroad by Inducing some transcontinental transconti-nental line or construction company to undertake the project was fully explained. ex-plained. Speeches were made describing describ-ing the traffic possibilities of the route, passing up Bkagll river, through vast lime marble tali and quartz deposits, I., the Blate Creek mining district, thenoe .iir the summit nf the moum-talns down tin ri h Mi-tlme, vu'.ley and finally through the upper Columbia River valla val-la tn Spokane. The entire poplatlnn Is Intensely In earnest Songs composed for the occasion occa-sion were sung tonight by school children. |