The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-08-20
A COUNTRYTO STAY WITH
Those Who Look Elsewhere
Believe that Okanogan Has
Superior Advantages.
ITS LAND EQUAL TO THE BEST
And for Climatic and Scenic At
fractions Cannot be Excel1ed
Anywhere in the Land.

Mention was made IN the last issue
OF visit of a former resident of this
county in the person of |. N. Putnam,
now of Spokane. For three or four
years Mr.. Putnam was connected with
lhe Palmer mountain tunnel in con-
fidential capacity, and when a change
was made in the management his con-
nection with the enterprise ceased.
Mr.. Putnam had secured IA piece of
land on the Columbia river, near Che
Ian falls, and it has been an ambition
of the young man to obtain more land,
as he felt it was safe investment,
certain to increase in value. When
at leisure Mr.. Putnam spent a number
of weeks looking for vacant lands, and
here he extended his researches to
other portions of eastern Washington,
even going into Oregon, Idaho and
Montana. His examination was no,
hasty or superficial. His object in
travelling so far and inspecting differ
ent sections so carefully was strictly a
matter of business, and sentiment cut
no figure in the conclusions reached.
He neither located, nor did he invest
in land In all his wanderings he de
clares he found nothing that would
Il II
way of desil able fruit lands, or as a
place of residence, and SO well satisfied
is he with the conditions and prospects
of this upper country that he proposes
to return to Okanogan county in the
spring to locate permanently.
Mention of Mr.. Putnam's experience
is made to show what disinterested,
observing, intelligent gentleman thinks
of the agricultural and pomological
possibilities of Okanogan county as
compared with other localities that
have earned and won recognition and
reputation As superiority adapted to
the growth and development of grains.
fruits and vegetables 1t may be but
natural for the residents of any one
given section to feel, and 50 express
themselves, that their particular sur
roundings have superior advantages
over other localities devoted to the
same character of products, but the
knowledge of such people as to pre-
vailing conditions elsewhere may not
extend beyond the confines of the
ighburhood in which they reside.
1t is different in the case of Mr.. Put
naln. His observations have extended
over large territory, where expert
ment and experience has demonstrated
the capability of the soil. TO those
who know of the productivencss of Ok
anogan lands under proper conditions
pressed not only ~ conforming to pre-
vailing belief, but more particularly as
it carries to those at distance, ignor
ant of the possibilities of this com
paratively virgin country, an unbiased
verdicted from disintereSted party
having made extensive Investigations.
If Okanogan county had been more
readily getatable 50 many of its broad
acres would not he now unoccupied and
unimproved If lines of transportation
had been constructed through the coun-
ty a number of years ago the Okanog
an and Methaw valleys would today be
covered with thrifty orchards and mod
ern homes, everywhere that water
could he secured it would he diverted
upon land and wherever gains could
be grown, and there are thousands of
acres that are, and can be, devoted to
that purpose, there the farmer would
be producing large surplus crops. A
few years will see a greater change
than has taken place in the past twen-
ty, and those who get in at the present
time are the ones that will reap the
benefits that are sure. to acrue to land
holders in this county.