The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-04-07
WORK ON THE FLAT.

The sp ing weather during the pas
few weeks started things moving OF
numerous tracts throughout this par
of the valley, where the owners con
template engaging in the fruit indus
.ry. Breaking out new land, fence
building and house construction is the
line of il proNement under way. anC
by tn end OF the summer there will be
q great transformation in the country
Immediately surrounding Oroville The
lumber so engaged at the present writ
ing is on.y a starter to the number
5hat may be expected to follow, judg
fers OF property, and The inquiries
that are being made by contemplative
purchasers. 1t will require time for
the work now being done to make any
conspicuous showing, but there must
be a beginning. That beginning has
been put off so long that this section
IS far behind other localities where
'ruit growing is made a specially, but
people are making up in energetic
hustiing for lost time, and those who
are spared few years viii see a most
wonderful change worked out by the
land of man in this favored spot.
The most extensive work now in
Progress, divided up among a num-
Der Of land holders, is on the big fiat
east of town, handled by the East Oro-
Vile Orchards company There the
several plot owners are taking advan-
cage Of eFory fine day to prepare the
land and set out trees. The water
supply. 50 necessary later in the sea-
son, is already provided for, and there
the trees should make rapid and thrift
~ growth. There can be 40 question
or doubt on that head. however for
without care, or attention, or very
little of either, one of the oldest, most
vigorous and heavily fearing orchards
in the county is located on that fiat.
indisPrtaDie evidence of what the soil
can do, and will do, on every acre IN
Ter the ditch, that is given a fair
chance. Among those holding tracts
on the fat who are nov engd;;e.l IN
nrsGaripg tbs sround aplantills, III
4 \. strong, j. A. Sc, ncer. Harry Nj
Wood Ir& W Follis, Dell Hart. Geo.
wilson, j. A. Gordon. Chester Glen
dtnnan, lOoley p. Wheeler, F1ed Il
Strong, Theodore Reid, Lyman C..
Reid, J. w. Gilmore, f. A. De Vos.
Mrs Jeanette Murray Geo. Pulls, and
the Orchard company, which is put
ding out ten acres
UIOn the level. protected, slightly
"Gb to the west of and overlooking
the town, and bounded on the soutl
by the Smilkameen river, the Okano-
gan Valley Fruit and Orchard COM
pany is preparing All extensive piece
of ground for orchard purposes Pro
tected by 4 bold mountain promon-
tory from the north wind, Immediate
iy on the outskirts OF town. this tract
is most admirably situated for the
purposes to which it is to be devoted
Careful and thorough cultivation
marks the first step in preparing this
land .Or planting, and the material
is being delivered for fencing. Water
viii be distributed by pumping from
the Smilhan cen river, the pump to
be operated by electricity.
Besides these two larger and more
ambitious orchard tracts, there are
numerous smaller bodies of land in
and about town. that are being i'm
proved Most of the parties who have
recently secured lots in the Blackler
Acre Tracts. in the southeastern part
of town are pushing permanent i'm
provemcnts. There is sufficient land
in each of these individual lots to
allow the owner space for modest
little orchards. and large and small
fruits are being planted to the extent
of the ground that can be utilized
Take it all in all the showing OF tree
planting is very cheering and encour-
aging, and this hasty enumeration OF
those so engaged gives the public some
slight idea of the extent of the steps
taken that will result in lending addi-
iOnal attraCtiyencss to the natural
beauty of the valley, and what some
day may be expected in the way of
profitable production, and all the ben
efts that profitable production implies
in conjunction with this work of beau-
tifying.