The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-10-07

light, the nights pleasant in summon
@ nu OH III all the climatic conditions |
are very favorable. The population as
"hoie Is progressive, wide awake and |
Id" -apiu!ng, and the stranger hunting |
hearty welcome.
In a general way mention has been
niaoe OF the resources tributary to ORo- |
VILE, but the greatest and most per
nnanent wealth rests in the lands of the
valley, where it has been demonstrated
that frult excelling the best in the
market can be raised in abundance.
Wherever fruit growing has become
leading industry lands have reached
such value that the man of limited
means is almost shut out from securing
a foothold. In this locality, which Is
about the last OF the numerous districts
IN eastern Washington adapted to the
growing OF fruit, where water is a
necessary element to insure success,
land values in the main are much more
reasonable than in the older districts
where irrigation is in vogue. But even
mere there Is an upward tendency, and
those desirous OF obtaining holdings
that will eventually make them indie
pendent should waste no time, but in
vestigate this country at once. In a
few years the Okanogan valley will be
one continuous orchard, and here, as
experience has taught in other sections,
the man who reaps the greatest reward
is he who gets in on the ground floor
There are not many illustrations OF the
fecundity of the soil in the way of bear
ing orchards to point to, because as a
rule the old timer, no matter how we
may admire him as a forerunner of civ
ilization, was improvident, and he has
left no record of industry and fore
sightedness in the way of bearing or
chards. There is one exception, how
ever, in the Hiram E. Smith, (Oka-
hogan Smith), orchard, on Osoyoos lake,
where trees, such as the one shown on
another page, demonstrates beyond all
question that for longevity and pro
ducing capacity the soil in the vicinity
of OROvILLE cannot be surpassed or
the continent. 1t may be stated that
a project is now under way, financed ant
promoted by the East Oroville Or
chards company, having for its objec
the reclamation of large section o
land adjacent to the Smith orchard
and bordering on Osoyoos. lake and tn
Okanogan river, which, subdivided int
small tracts, will provide homes for
$ large colony This is simply referre'
to as showing that people are at las
= aroused to the Importance OF the va
+ ley as the home of prize fruit. Tn
S success that is bound to follow this bi
e undertaking will encourage other Ell
" terprises Of like kind, both by indivit
T. ual land owners and combinations {
Q land holders. 1t is the system that ha
e made the Yakima and Wenatchee va
d leys what they are today, and it is tn
y system that will attract investors an
e home builders to the Okanogan countr
l. heretofore slow coming to the frol
II owing to remoteness from transport
e ton. a handicap that is speedily BEN
removed,
W TO those who glance over this artic
o. An invitation is extended TO come al
" investigate the conditions as they ar
De This is land of bright promise, whe
u fulfillment is the certain reward OF
le dustry and intelligent endeavor IN
IN combination may be the landmarks
a fortune wherever natures store can
ed drawn upon for the betterment OF mar
'n estate. but here nature has been law
in providing opportunity for the app
as cation of Drawn and brain to proou
OF results, and he who takes advantage
he the same is responding to the chan
n that raps but once at every door,