The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-07-28
PLEASED WITH THE PLACE.

During a conversation with that
gentleman, Jas. j. Graham, of Spo-
kane, expressed agreeable surprise at
finding Oroville such bright looking,
progressive, up-tO-date town, and COM
mented favorably upon the admirable
location, the beauty of the surround
ings, and the advantages of two con-
siderable rivers and large lake as
the boundaries of the corporate limits
The general attractiveness of the place
and its advantageous surroundings
both as to the abundance of water and
the evident fertility of the soil where
water is applied to assist production.
that so favorably struck Mr.. Graham
appeals 20 every stranger who visits
the place. Few towns in the west are
so fortunately situated and beneficent-
ly favored. Located in an enlarge
ment of the valley, hedged in on the
east and west by high mountains, with
one OF the most charming lakes in the
state to the north, and encircled by
two streams of large volume, the nat
dral environments could not be more
attractive. The conditions climatic
ally are as near meeting the require
ments of man as can be found any
where. The land upon which the town
is built is almost level, and the tre-
mendous expenses fOr grading and
general municipal improvements that
are such burdensome tax upon the
residents OF towns elsewhere are here
almost entirely eliminated. Situated
as 1t is In relation to Typographical
surroundings no transportation line
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out passing through Orovil'e. The
outlets north and south are water
grade. and the only pass through the
range to the west is by the Way of the
cleft in the mountains cut by the ST.
milkameen. Already there IS a line
east Ind west, and it is only ques-
ton OF time when lines of rail will be
extended nCrth as we'll as south. This
will make OrOville railroad center,
even if the existent and prospective
lines are OF one system. Other roads
will build in as the country settles up
and is developed, for it Is too vast and
resOurceful territory for one line to
long :nonopoliza, and such railroads as
may break into the field in the future
must come to Oroville, as the lay of
the land is such that they can not
desired. Added to the advantages
enumerated there remains the tribu
tary territory, and without tributary
territory the growth of a place can
not be great nor permanent. There
are h lndrods of acres OF rich fruit
lands Immediately in touch with the
town, the trade and influence of which
can never be diverted elsewhere. On
the higher benches are large tracts of
grain lands. the trade from the occu-
pants naturally gravitating to Oro-
Vile Within few miles are eXten-
sive mineral zones, so far developed
as to establish their permanency and
value, which at some future time will
be active producers, paying the opera
tors handsomely and supplying en-
ployment to large number of well
paid employees With such backing
Oroville can not fail to thrive and
grow apace. Progress has been SLOW
in the past, but the country has been
backward in development, owing tC
remoteness from markets, and hence
the town has not outgrown the re-
sources upon which it depends. Flu,
ture advancement will be more rapid
and in a few years this will be one OF
the important inland cities of the
northwest.