The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-12-31
MORE RAILROAD IN SIGN
Surveyors Brave the Winter,
Blast Running Out a New
Line To The North.
T|EsTo THE CANADIAN pacific
A Nov Branch Northward Which
Isan Important Link in the
Great Northern System.

Thugs are coming to Oroville now
adays With rush, the good effects from
whichwill be felt during the new year
and will continue to be felt during the
yearsp come, until the permanency Of
the town is so firmly established that
new snerprises will be soliciting the
help d Oroville, instead of Oroville
soliciting the help of new enterprises.
The 1T encouraging thing that will
have Tendency toward aiding to push
the TOM to the front that this paper
is calbd upon to chronicle happened
Mondlg evening, when a crew of fif-
teen srveyors arrived from the front,
beyoM Princeton, with a complete
outfit b a bonded car. Tuesday the
caravm laid in months supply of pro-
vision and Wednesday the crowd and
paraphrnalia started for Osyoos, at
the had of the lake of that name, to
go intocamp preliminary to making a
permanent survey of line of railroad
from 0roville to Penticton, which
meanss connecting link between the
CANAAN Pacific, at Okanogan Land
ing, - the Great Northern, at Oro-
vile, thus giving Oroville and the val
ley anolher outlet east and west. With
the ccutruction of this line railroads
will H1iate from Oroville like the
spokes9 wheel, and thereby becom-
ing sxtlroad center so that no rail-
road eyer be built into the, county
Iiast lture without touching this
poA.l soncentration. ! -
ThAAe northward road is to take
on sbqs and form this year there is
ever won to expect. 1t was stated
by thoe In authority last fall, when
the CONNECT was let for Oroville-Wen-
atchee ksnch, or that section of that
branchiom Oroville to Pateros, that
the linsb the north would be the very
next un1ertaking of the Great North
ern systsn, and that the contractors
on the scth extension would build the
Pentictoa extension, as the grading
tools areO near the point of proposed
operation which is good logic and good
reason. Also the putting of surveyors
in the hsh at this season would con-
firm the nport that got in circulation
a few moths ago.
The public has not been taken into
the confdsnce of the powers that build
railroads but it is the general suppo-
sition that the survey will follow the
east shore d Osoyoos lake, continuing
on the objective point, Penticton, at
the south end and on the east side of
Okanogan ike. This is very large
and beautiful sheet of water, and line
OF steamboak ply between Penticton
and Okanosan Landing, at the north
end OF the lake, from whence branch
railroad extends to the Canadian Pa
cific at Sicamous.
when the main line and south and
north branches are completed and in
operation Oroville will be in touch
with three outlets east and west, and
no interior town in the state, outside
Of Spokane, will be so fortunately stu
ated as regards transportation advan-
ages. Furthermore the time is speed
lily coming when the development of
okanogan county will attract other
and whenever new railroad
heads into the county it cannot escape
)roville. A railroad cannot very well |
ret into or out of this upper country
Without coming to or going through |
)roville. 1t is the key to northern
)kanogan, and with that prestige
nd the influence that railroads WELD
$ upbuilders of communities, there is
very reason to anticipate the early
of the hopes of our people
"a city of large and great commercial
nd industrial Importance at this point.