The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-10-27
STUCK ON THE COUNTRY
\ WEST SIDER Is TAKEN OVER
THE CHARMING OkANOGAN
VALLEY.
He SEES, AND IS CONVINCED
That No Other Section of the State
Oiiers Better Inducements to
;hc Home Hunters.

'. II. DflSSlef, OF SOutn Bend VINO
spent last week looking over the coun-
try around Oroville with j. A. Silk
wood and Jas. e. Forde, left for his
home Saturday, and few strangers
have ever visited this locality and car
ried away with them a more favorable
impression of this land of happy and
charming promise. A bright intelli-
gent, observing young gentleman is
Mr.. Drissler, and like the man from
Missouri, it it necessary to "shOw
him." After being shown he was con-
vinced that as fruit country the
Okanogan valley is not to be excelled
anywhe Whether Mr.. Drissler will
or will not invest up here is not
known. He probably will. if looking
has seen nothing that suits his fancy
better, and he is of the kind that
knows a good thing when he sees it.
The experience of Mr.. Drissler, and
the conclusions reached after inves-
tigation, is but natural, and is only
a repetition of the conclusions reached
by all strangers who come into the
country and look about To see the
valley and ascertain what it is capa
Bile Of producing carries conviction
that nowhere else are soil and condi-
tions more favorable for orchard cul-
ture. 1t is to be seen in the vigorous
and extraordinary growth of young
trees, the size, flavor and colOring of
the fruit grown in the older orchards.
1t is to be seen in the prodigious vege-
table productions, as well as all other
class of vegetation grown under the
influence OF water. A mild climate, a
fecund soil, and water without limita-
ton. are combinations that make for
good crops and big crops of anything
the earth is capable of producing.
What is wanted is more people look
ing for locations and investments to
come and see. Buying fruit land in
Okanogan county at ruling prices is
not a speculative investment. carry
ing a shadow of uncertainty as to flu
ture profits. 1t is not an investment
depending on returns from hidden
wealth yet to be discovered. 1t is not
like taking an interest In some busi-
ness or manufacturing venture that
depends upon worked up patronage
to prove paying success. 1t is buy
ing rich, actual soil that will not fail.
under proper handling, to bring back
many fold on the original cost not for
one year, or two years, or a limited
period, but for a natural life time, as
a bearing orchard planted half CEN
tury ago in this immediate vicinity
goes to prove. This country is remote
from the beaten path of travel, and
hence is not so we'll known as other
localities easier to reach and for
longer time in the lime light, and
hence has been slow reaching the
stage of development that has been
enjoyed elsewhere where fruit land is
made a speciality. In older sections
land adapted to the growing of fruit
is becoming so valuable that men of
moderate means are unable to secure
a foothold. Just as good land in this
neighborhood. as experiment has am
ply demonstrated, is still reasonable,
and in this direction the investor of
limited capital desiring to engage in
fruit culture must turn his face. 1t
is those who come before the railroads
are completed to the coast and
through the valley who are to secure
the advantages of the present prices
Already lands in the valley have an
upward tendency, and prices will con-
tinue to increase. They will never be
any less than they are today. and as
the country fills up prices will ad-
vance steadily and rapidly. Now is the
accepted time for those who want
fruit lands to secure their holdings.
A few years hence they will be re-
GREETING their lack of foresight in not
investing when land was reasonable
and the opportunity open.