The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-11-18
MERE APPLE IS KING
|ALand Where Smiling Nature
and a Fertile Soil Makes
For Perfect Fruit.
|nE EFFORT IS REWARDED
vhen Applied to Developing the
Rich Resources of the Great
Okanogan Country.

OhRbO ~0N'iitA -
The following write up of this part
Z dthe Okanogan valley, treating of its
1 shptability to the growing and pro-
dctiOn OF fruit, with a slight addition,
rs issued in folder form for distribu-
tn from the Oroville booth ut the Ma
donal Apple show, held in Spokane
ibis week
The apple has come to be looked
upon as the surest and most profitable
huit that can be grown, where the ma
nral conditions favor its reaching per-
ict development. 1t is profitable be-
uuse it is the most common fruit, and
mters more into general consump-
ton than any other fruit, because the
leeping qualities of certain and most
Doths0me varieties give it a place in
he market the greater portion of the
year, and because the yield is prolific
Nd q complete failure of crop is never
mown. 1t is easy to grow, convenient
b handle, is not subject to deterioration
d transportation, and good quality
hways commands good price. 1t is
these advantages that have popularized
spple growing as an industry, and is
attracting the attention of so many in
. wstOrs to lands adapted to that staple
poduct.
The apple is indigenous to about all
Wuntries and all climes, but only at
atns its best in color, flavor, size and
gmmetry in few favored localities.
periment and experience has dem
Astrated to the complete satisfaction
dpr0ducer and consumer alike that of
VI lands adapted to the development
q the apple, in all the fullness of a
perfect fruit, there are none to COM
pare with the irrigated valley lands of
EASTERN Washington, where all fruits
reach the richest maturity, and among
hem the apple stands crowned as
King. Already large areas are given
over to the exclusive growing of ap-
Pies, and rapidly the acreage is increas-
ing to meet the steady expansion of de-
mand. Already the Washington ap-
PIE has won supremacy in the marts
at home and abroad in competition
With the world, and this popularity is
IN assurance that the yield of the fu-
lure, no matter how large, will find a
ready market.
Certain localities in this state have
,ecome famous for the quantity and
luality of the apples harvested, and
hose localities have become SO famil-
ar as household words. There are
ther sections gradually coming into
rominence to divide the honors of
ruit production with the older settled
istricts, and among the new candid
ties there is none that gives greater
or is more worthy of investi-
ration by the investor and those con-
embarking in the industry,
han northern Okanogan county, where
he land is new, irrigation on any eX-
tensive scale but recently introduced,
Ind where the chances secure a foot
hold are not out of the reach of the
man Of moderatp means
1t is desired in this connection to call
especial attention to the irrigable lands
in the immediate vicinity of Oroville.
Oroville is young and growing town
on the branch of the Great Northern
railroad extending from Spokane to
Vancouver, B. G. The town is beautl-
fully situated between the Okanogan
and Similkameen rivers, at the foot OF
Osoyoos lake, only a short distance
south of the international boundary,
and is destined, as the key of this up
per country, to become very import
ant commercial center. But it is of
the lands especially adapted to the
growing of fruit that particular atten-
tlon is called. 1t is calculated that
within a radius of 20 miles of Oroville,
and largely tributary to the town,
mere are $4,000 acres of choice land
mat can be placed under water, and
which will be so supplied in the course
W times There are numerous instan-
ces where individual fruit growers are
operating private irrigation plants,
and within the circle of which Oro-
vie is the axis several large reclama-
uon projects are under way, and others
are In contemplation. Almost within
we limits of the town the East Oro-