The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-07-08
SEES A GREAT FUTURE
For the Country Surrounding
and Directly Tributary
to Oroville.
PRAISE FROM ONE WHO KNOWS
A Locality Happily Adapted to
the Production of the Very
Choicest Fruits.

Fruit Inspector Piercey, who puts in
so much of his time travelling over the
county that he is familiar with about
every foot of it, at least every foot of
it where fruit tree has been planted,
or where one will take root, was in
town Sunday, drifting in after a iaunt
through the county to the northeast.
Mr.. Piercey has devoted much of his
life to fruit growing, and he knows
pomology from A to lizard. A fruit
tree in the stick is to him an open
book. He knows how to plant, treat
and handle an orchard to get the best
results, and is posted on all the pests
and diseases that fruit trees are heir
to. He is employed by the county to
protect the young and old orchards so
far as in his power from the introduce
tiOn of any of the known pests that
work blight upon the important and
gowing industry of fruit culture. Thro'
the instrumentality of his constant Wig
lance SO far the introduction of dis
eased, or infected, stock has been kept
down to minimum, and he has been
active and insistent in seeing that older
orchards are regularly and thoroughly
sprayed, and carefully watched to pre-
vent insects from gaining a foothold.
Naturally the opinion of such man
upon the best soil and climatic condi-
tions to insure the production of su-
conviction. 1t is based upon knowledge
gained by study, research and close OBJ
servation, and is neither hastily formed
nor lightly given. If Mr.. Piercey,
after careful inspection, says that a
certain locality possesses advantages
for the growth and development of a
superior quality of fruit, that judg-
ment can be accepted as authoritative.
He does not pass judgmentupo super
fetal knowledge, hence its weight.
Mr.. Piercey voluntarily, and without
hesitation, declared this part of the
Okanogan valley to be one of the most
favored spots in eastern Washington
for the cultivation, growing and ma
turing of all kinds of fruits. He eX-
pressed surprise to find fruits so far
advanced at this season of the year,
and declared this season much earlier
than the Wenatchee country,
He was greatly interested in the
progress being made by the East Oro-
vile Orchards company in the project
for the reclamation of 1000 acres of
arid land adjoining the corporate linn
its of the town. He predicts its sue
cess, not only as a business venture,
but as eventually proving to be one of
the most productive and valuable fruit
tracts in the state. He feels confident
that this big enterprise will be fol-
lowed by others in the neighborhood,
until every available acre will be un-
der water and devoted to fruit culture.
He congratulated the people upon hav-
ing such an abundance of water in such
iuxtuposition to the lands requiring
irrigation, and only regretted that he
was not twenty years younger that he
might be more certain of living to see
the time, that is sure to arrive, when
the valley hereabouts will be one con
tinuous oasis, producing for the mar
ket a vast harvest of the very choicest
fruits. He considered Oroville most
fortunately situated in the midst of
such rich and responsive lands, and
expressed the opinion that in the near
future it would be a large and flourish
ing city, an opinion that is shared by
all cognizant of the resources adjacent
and tributary to place, and a realiza-
tion that can be accelerated if the pop
ulaton will get together, stick to-
gether and pull together. And all this
commendation of soil, climate and To-
cation was agreeable to hear, and pleas
ant to repeat to the public as confirm
ing the statements so frequently made
by the GAZETTE during the past sew
eral years.