The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-10-25
Extract from Vancouver World October 9th, 1910

The Fort George Commercial Club has sent Mr.. G.
W. Moore as it's representative to the New West
Minister Fair and that gentleman stayed a few days
IN the city making preparations for the display of
the most complete exhibition Of agricultural produce
shown from the Fort George Country Space
specially reserved for the display at the Fair,
and visitors to the Royal Ciys exhibition this week
thus have opportunity to judge for themselves as to
the agricultural resources of the Fort George Dis
trct.
The exhibit, which is attractvely arranged i'm
presses the minds of all who it with the fact that
the Fort George country has great agricultural value
Some of the products exhibited would do credit to
parts of British Columbia of which the fame has
gone abroad to the ends of the earth Potatoes are
shown that are fine those of Ashcroft while the
cabbages, turnps, onions, carrots and beets all
OF large size and excellent quality. sample of good
wheat in the straw is shown, and larger exhibit of
oats Mr. Moore stated that the Fort George oat
crop this year not heavy last season, when
the straw in some fields stood nearly eight feet in
height. Some splendid samples of native grasses
offer proof conclusive to the richness of the natu
raj pasturage while the specimens of timothy show
that the cultivated grasses do even better.
In fruit, Mr. Moore has samples of apples from
north of Soda Creek. Apples have been planted in
the Fort George countr and doing finely but
not yet in bearing Mr. Moore states that an or
chardist from of the big tree supplying houses
who went through the district this summer, is posi-
tive that the Fort George district will produce the
best of apples. "Whv shouldn't it?'' asked Mr..
Moore. Fort George is only 1900 feet in altitude
and Is the same latitude as London and Berlin.
The Fort George country grow anything that
can be grown anywhere in the same latitude There
is the greatest variety OF native fruits at Fort George
that ever saw anywhere, and I've worked and trav
eled III almost every part OF America, from COnnecl
cut, where | was born to nigh up to Yukon. Why,
up IN the Peace River country 400 miles north of
Fort George, and with colder climate, they grow
of the finest crops that any farmer could
desire Any country in which the buffalo-did you
know that the largest herd of wild buffalo in the
world is north of the Peace River country ?-roam
all winter is good farming country. Why, up there
at Peace River there men who have sOwn tOma-
toes newly broken land and the tomatoes have
ripened in the field. think that fact should sat
isfy anybody that the climate of Canada, far to the
north of the latitude of For George is good for the
growing of crops. The people who think that only
the southern fringe of Canada will grow crops don't
know what they talking about. In the early days
the croakers said the same thing about Illinois.
When [ was a lad, Minnesota and the Dakotas
maligned the way. Most of us remember when
the thing said Of prairie Canada, yet look
at it today! When the Grand Trunk Pacific is fin
ished it will prove thingthat the belt OF agri
cultural production extends away north OF the new
railroad; away north of Fort George right to British
Columbia northern boundary.
You people here in Vancouver want to under
stand. however," went on Mr.. Moore ''that up at
Fort George we have no farms such you have down
at Lulu Island. These things to come, but they
are not there yet. This exhibit only shows portion
of what can be grown, but yet we have nothing
but little cultivated patches in the Fort George
try Development up there has been delayed by