The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-04-19
PRAISE FROM A STRANGER.

When a traveller has encountered.
ahe v,cissitudes of Canada and it's cli-
mate over series of years he more
khan ever marvels at the increasing
numbers of those determined to seek
It's treary solitudes each succeeding
year. These people acting under the
xviii influence of direct misrepresen-
kati IN often leave prosperous and con-
ented homes to founder themselves
Amid the Arctic embraces OF a land
hat must forever remain foreign to
bem. and one that their sole ambition
20 leave as soon as they recover
Rom the effects OF its fatal attraction.
NE crowds returning to Britain from
his continent must amaze the casual
Decator. unused to studying human
Nature at it's weakest, until he UNDER
hands that so far all these pilgrims
lave only tried the lands of Canada,
Ind found them wanting to suit their
iews of life. The vast distances
her, between farms, the isolation OF
he interminable stretches OF lever
nowbound lands during winter, the
ttet aloofness, even hostility, OF the
plonial attitude towards these stran-
ers. have all tended to create an idea
repugpance and horror in the minds
such emigrants never to be elimi-
ated. When the facts are duly con
dercd. the idea suggests itself that
prhaps even yet. there may be cOun-
pie, where such n collection of draw
hcks does not threaten the adventur-
,s Immigrant, and where the settler
ill be allowed to grow up without
Olostation. The lands of the Okan-
ran come to mind. and the resources
Washington and British Columbia
ecoi he manifest.
At Oroville. but few hundred miles
estw ard of the Rocky mountain
Anets, and thus in country on the
anifC slope. is a valley where the Sc
hctiye reaches of the foothills and
knch lands present themselves. Here
a noble alluvial bottom. once
prked by the pioneers and gOldseek-
ls C.. the northwest, that contains the
krnage allotted to region some
rec miles In width, and extending
any scores of miles to the north ana
Suth, where the best available coun-
can be found for the purposes OF
hit farming and mixed ranching.
e position is central and unique
none the mountains. The rugged
hges are now left behind to the east
ri and their stern fOrbidding fea-
PES are sOftened into the rounded
Auty so distinctive of the bench
Ids. Here, besides, Is no severe
searching climate. that makes the
tler wonder how he can tough II
until spring, but a fairly temper
and genial one. that permits OF
ntort and allows of competence.
E airy, even breezy, nature of many
ha h,tt no accounted for
this fact, for the windows often
hit OF wholesome draughts and
Dlesale ventilation. This would not
possible furher east, for there the
bile frame, and barn like stoves.
the tale of climatic severity. Ii
natural advantages are so ap-
ent, the question arises how these
ms to popularity have been so
concealed from the public. 1t
be answered, because the people
Ting homes are usually gulled into
eving the fair and false reports or
ulartOrs.
2IS< he distinctive features of the OrO-
center may be considered. II
in wide and fertile valley sys-
in direct touch with the lands OF
Okanogan north and south, within
spacious territory, extending
y ly hundred miles nOrthward and
" Inward, it holds the center posi-
Reaching downwards into WASH
on as far as the Columbia river.
upwards into British Columbia to
ny the Kamloops foOthill country,
hus contains an acreage measured
fmany hundreds of square miles.
. hin this ample region are all the
nisites for mixed farming and the
6s of the fruit rancher. Now that
older cattle ranches are more or
breaking up into areas of closer
lement the Okanogan valley be-
hes the chosen land for the smaller
mers of today. And at OrOville Is
r. Iatural and necessary center.
7s 81 immediate proximity to the town
two districts, tOtaling some ten
usand acres. on both sides of the
pr, that permit of complete irriga-
Private enterprise has already
plied another 10000 acres with
a er, and this well repays the cost
n Ehat undertaking. 1t may however.
m that land possessing such eli
ic advantages would be independ-
q o. irrigation, but 1t Is a well proved
that nowhere can fruit be grown
Ter natural conditions to compete
ed areas.
2s1 rhe sense of security in fruit ranch
under such circumstances be-
& hes paramount. and must eventual
induce capital. at all times disin-
led to take the precariOus chances
s. 1nerely natural conditions.
rhe water supply may be gauged as
q Its sufficiency by the additional fact
~ b IL is maintained by the dual water
a Hers OF the Similkameen and Okan-
an rivers From the Similkameen
a >ne is derived a permanent supply at
* elevation OF 1865 feet, equal to all
IN requirements of irrigation that
4y be thus depended upon all the
IN ar and every season.
<S "a gain, the magnitude of this favored
a Fey, of which OrOville forms the
tnral key or center, may be gath
ed from the fact that, from its nor
ern reaches in British Columbia it
tends down to the Columbia river
IS >d the main line of the Great Nor
81 ern railway. Thus calling within
sphere of operation territory
S Nalling many counties, and even