The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-01-28
6|CNS SPRING
Break in the Protracted Cold
Awakens Visions of
Buds and Birds
PROSPECT OF A LIVELY SEASON
Enterprises of Great Moment to
be Carried Forward to
Foil Fruition.

There seems Of late disposition on
he part of winter to let 60. 1t may be
rousing false hopes, as February is
let to run it's course, and February is
tickle month. Old residents have
|een the time when plowing was in
progress IN February; they have also
Experienced the coolest weather of
Rinter in that briefest month. Hence
he public can look forward to % days
b bf uncertainty. Yet recently there has
been pleasing change in the atmos-
phere, an atmoshere of protracted frig-
dity. At times, though briefly, the
hir has approached a point of balmi-
ness, and under the influence of a gen.
tle southern breeze snow has almost
disappeared on the low lands, and mud
hnd water taken its place as the ordi-
harry expectation Of the spring season.
Dit has not been severe winter in the
sense of low register Of the ther-
mometer, but it has been trying in the
fact of long drawn out and continu-
ous freeze. Up to last week there had
not been . break in the chilly same
hess, and hence gentler temperature
lis hailed with thanksgiving.
And it is the universal hope that
winter has played its part upon the
stage, and the curtain is to be rung
blown upon the icy act. The opening
Ipf spring carries promise of better
Sthings than have ever before come to
Stown and valley. All things are re-
juvinated with the bursting of the buds.
People more eager, more enthusiastic,
Smore optomistic at the season that
Arouses all dormant nature into new
Wife. There is firm foundation at this
.time for great expectations. Move
inents are on foot Of large import, the
'consummation Of which, and tho con-
bummation is absolutely certain, means
Il lasting benefits, directly and indirect.
Ny, to the people of Oroville. individu-
'hally and collectively. These move
5ments cannot be pushed on to swift
fmaturity until the modification OF
&weather conditiuns in the spring.
*These enterprises upon which antici-
&pations of fortuitous results are based
2are not prospective in the sense of being
in formulative stages, dependant upon
such contingencies as stock selling, OF
the supplying of funds by capitalists at
a distance. They have ample finance
already behind them, having reached
the shape and form of actualities
They are enterprises of moment, not Of
temporary advantage, but to endure
for all time as contributors to the gen.
eral veal, Railroad construction and
perfecting of irrigation projects, both
potent agencies in forwarding the com
mon good, and prime factors in insur-
ing the advancement Of any country
are as certain of realization as the
changes Of the seasons. Indeed the
question of certainty or uncertainty
does not enter into consideration of the
subject. They are. Even the colo
weether has not forced complete sus
pension of railroad building, and the
preliminary steps have already beer
taken in the matter Of reclaiming &
large tract at the outskirts of town
With the passing of frost new life will
be infused IN actual railroad building
and not only will the south branch bt
forced ahead as rapidly as the hand o
man with the aid Of every modern &C
cessory can do the work, but the lint
to the north, now being surveyed, will
be pushed to the goal to which tht
builders are aiming. Likewise will
more favorable conditions following tn,
disappearance of snow and ice will tn,
promoters Of the irrigation scheme
and schemes, vigorously prosecute th'
work in hand. There are still othe
propositions that men with the mean
to carry them out have under advise
ment that are almost certain of forma
tion, and formulated means assistanc,
to large degree in making the yea
1910 the most prosperous :and progres
sive this part Of the county has ye
known. No wonder the people lool