The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-10-24
Extract from Vancouver World, October 9th, 1910

The Fort George Commercial Club has sent Mr.. c.
W. Moore it's representative to the New West
minister Fair, and that gentleman stayed 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
was specially reserved for the display at the Fair
and visitors to the Royal City exhibition this week
thus have opportunity to judge for themselves to
the agricultural resources of the Fort George Dis
trict.
The exhibit, which is attractively 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
shown that fine as those Of Ashcroft while the
cabbages turnips, onions, carrots and beets are 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 as 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
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 "Why shouldn't it?' asked Mr..
Moore, Fort George is only 1900 feet in altitude,
and is on 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-
eed in almost every part OF America from COnnectl-
cut, where | was born, to nigh up to Yukon. Why,
up in the Peace River country, 400 miles north OF
Fort George, and with a colder climate they grow
some Of the finest crops that ever any farmer could
desire Any country in which the buffalo-dd 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 who have sown toma
toes newly broken land and the tomatoes have
rpened in the field. think that one 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 thing about Illinois.
When was lad, Minnesota and the Dakotas
maigned the way Most of remember when
the same thing said of prairie Canada, yet look
at it today! When the Grand Trunk Pacific is fin
ished it will prove tlng-that the belt OF agr-
cultural production extends away north OF the new
railroad away north of Fort George, right to British
Columbia's northern boundary.
''You people here in Vancouver want to under
stand, however,, went on Mr. Moore, THAT up at
Fort George we have farms such as you have down
are not there yet. This exhibit only shows portion
but little cultivated patches in the Fort George coun
try Development up there has been delayed by