The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-05-05

formed. Sammy's experience in the
+ past twenty years has been diversified
and not always smooth sailing ne
has had his ups and downs, but be il
said to his credit Sam retains cheer
ful spirit. b. il under the smile of for
iune or the lrown of adrersity, and his
stock Of hope is never exhausted il
The Slide is sudden from the tZz OF
champagne to the froth of beer. II
iumOr is anyw here near correct, Sam
uel has hobnobbed with princes and
nerded with hOboes since he shook the
dust Of OkanOgan from mis- feet Still
he has happy faculty of catching on,
Of boring ahead. and if this last story
of attaching himself to dazzling wealth
Is true, he is again in the diamond
wearing class
I,s ohe OF l.ichtenstader first nossv
ventures. by which he pried many =,
uoilar out of the pockets of tbe own,
''eouious public, was the promotion
OF townsite at the mouth of tb. O,,-
hogan river and it was that neryv van-
'ure that came suddenly back to mann
WY "heh the writer saw his name in
print attached to new strike Raral,
'las more elaborate preparations been
made by parties hailng from the was,
W eaten the unsuspecting sucker with
town lot bait than those rpsorted to hv
Iichtenstadcr to make his town lots
LOOK like an attractive and saf. in
festment. The town that Sam featured
was named swansea. and more elab-
orate and fetching plat could hardly
De devised. The map represented the
gown, or. rather. city, to be located on
the Okanogan river at its junction with
ihe Columbia. Streets were laid ONT
with beautiful regularity. Railroad
depots and switch yards were careful
~ portrayed. The larger lots on the
water front were reserved for ware
houses, manufacturing plants. eleva-
tors, and all the industries common Tn
metropolis. Ostentatious wharves
extended from the shore line. Nagniti-
cent and mammoth steamboats, were
pictured plowing the lordly Columbia
and the mighty Okanogan. racing for
r,i's privilege of loading and unloading
at those wharves. Railroad trains
were speeding into Swansea from all
points of the compass, and altogether
the plat represented scene of actiyi-
ty more business-like and animating
than could be Witnessed in Spokane or
Seattle today. Armed with these ap-
pealing platS Sam bade goodbye to
slow and pokey OkanOgan and made IA
glittering passage across the conti-
nent in search of fields where he could
get swifter action upon his natural
talents than in this sparsely settled
north country. How many lots were
sold, or what the breezy Sam cleaned
mp on the venture, no man knOweth
but it is believed that this imaginary
city, with the prospects of "A fortune to
the man in on the ground floor. caught
"'ouI d" ii'tH dS any real estate Trap
ever set. I.ichtenstader never came
back, but as an indication that he was
on earth and moving eastward like a
luminous planet, some time after he
left this county the writer, then re-
ceiver of the land office at Waterville,
received a letter from the chief clerk
nf 10
that he had purchased % lots at Swan
sea from party registered as licht-
enstader, and inquiring the prospects
of the city and the value of the real
estate. That was evidence that Sam
my was on the wing, and making his
presence felt en- route.