The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-01-07
M9E RA|LROAD|N SIGHT
Surveyors Brave the Wmtery
last Running Out a New
Line To The North.
T|6 TO THE CANADIAN PACIFIC
A lew Branch Northward Which
an Important Link in the
Great Northern System.

1ings are coming to Oroville now
adss with rush, the good effects from
wEh will be felt during the new year,
anwill continue to be felt during the
yefs to come, until the permanency OF
thtown is so firmly established that
ne enterprises will be soliciting the
hep of Oroville, instead of Oroville
soothing the help of new enterprises
Tb last encouraging thing that will
hae tendency toward aiding to push
tn town to the front that this paper
isalled upon to chronicle happened
Mnday evening, when crew of fif-
ten surveyors arrived from the front,
beond Princeton, with a complete
osfit in a bonded car. Tuesday the
cravan laid in months supply of pro-
.sions, and Wednesday the crowd and
ayaphernalia started for Osyoos, at
tb head of the lake of that name, to
ginto camp preliminary to making a
permanent survey of line of railroad
firm Oroville to Penticton, which
mans a connecting link between the
Cnadian Pacific, at Okanogan Land
in, and the Great Northern, at Oro-
vie, thus giving Oroville and the val
le another outlet east and west. With
th construction of this line railroads
VII radiate from Oroville like the
spikes of wheel, and thereby becom-
in railroad center so that no rail-
rssd will ever be built into the county
IL the future without touching this
pint of concentration.
That the northward road is to take
q shape and form this year there is
eer reason to expect. 1t was stated
b those in authority last fall, when
te contract was let for Oroville-Wen-
achee branch, or that section of that
ranch from Oroville to Pateros, that
tie line to the north would be the very
eXt undertaking of the Great North
an system, and that the contractors
N the south extension would build the
fenuicton extension, as the grading
bols are so near the point of proposed
operation, which is good logic and good
rason. Also the putting of surveyors
h the field at this season would con-
irm the report that got in circulation
few months ago.
The public has not been taken into
the confidence of the powers that build
railroads, but it is the general suppo-
sition that the survey will follow the
East shore of Osoyoos lake, continuing
On the objective point, Penticton, at
The south end and on the east side of
Okanogan lake. This is a very large
and beautiful sheet of water, and line
of steamboats, ply between Penticton
and Okanogan 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 situ-
ated as regards transportation advan-
tages. Furthermore the time is speed
lily coming when the development of
Okanogan county will attract other
railroads, and whenever new railroad
heads into the county it cannot escape
Oroville. A railroad cannot very well
get into or out of this upper country
without coming to or going through
Oroville. 1t is the key to northern
Okanogan, and with that prestige
and the influence that railroads WELD
as upbuilders of communities, there is
every reason to anticipate the early
realization of the hopes of our people
"a city of large and great commercial
and industrial Importance at this point.