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Show IBELLINGHAM TO RAISE BONUS. Washington Town Will OfTer Inducement Induce-ment for New Road. BEUJNOIIAM. Wash.. Nov A The. BflllnKtiani Chamber Commerce ha .-idnpted plans t.i Itiiuipurato a rampnlKii for raising $1,400.0j in land and cash as .i iintiuH. which it i proposed to give fr j' ,i railroad built eastward from here across the Cascade mountains tlimuKh northern Washington to Spokane. The proposed line would be about NO inll-8 long, coating In th nelnhborhood t SS.OClO.orVi It would tap tho Slate Creek mining district, the Okanogan country, the Mclhuw ami Northern Columbia river vallc-ys and much that pronounced the richest undeveloped grazing and agricultural agricul-tural section on the Pacific coast, it is planned to raise H.UjO.iw of the honm Ik r' and 1400,000 at Spokane and In eastern Washington, with tho ultimate belief that the road, when constructed, pj will beOOOie part of some transcontinental H system with its main terminal at Bolllng- H |