The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-03-22
4 BRIGHT OUTLOOK.


present time it can be said that indi-
cations point to OrOville making a
healthy and substantial growth dur
ing the present year. This Is not a
pipe dream. The statement is risked
without drawing on the imagination
1t is based on tenable grounds with
out room for refutatiOn. The claim is
not set up that the town is on the eve
OF o boom. A boom, with it's feverish
rush and unnatural temporary real
estate imitation. bringing expansion
for the time being to be followed by
Il long season of paralysis and mac
tiyity, is not desired. Booms may have
their advantages, for a few, but there
are more disadvantages in the end,
and especially to those who settle in
a place so afflicted with the object of
remaining permanently. A steady
growth, even If slow, is far preferable
to sudden mushroom development
for the steady growth is lasting. Where
such growth times and adjusts itself
to the settlement and development of
the tributary country. the town that
builds up along that line is the town
that has future. What is wanted
in the growth of a town is a growth
that promises permanency, and holds
| out inducements to those who settle
| therein to stay with it. That is the
kind of growth that Oroville is des-
| tined to make. One cannot expect it
to to be all done in a single season.
and no one cares to see 1t done that
way. What is wanted is to see one
| Improvement encourage another, and
| each year add to the sum total of those
| improvements until city, modern in
| it's appointments. containing an in
| dustrious and contented population
spreads all over the fiat, where the
| nucleus of that future greatness is
| already assembled. There is room for
| q town of magnitude on this fiat, and
| if it comes up to expectations it will
extend out in every direction. eventu
ally passing to the farther side of both
! rivers.
The building spirit has already man.
| ifested itself for the spring, and that
manifestation is expected to embrace
others who are now in state of doubt
as to their ultimate intentions on that
score. Several large blocks are in
contemplation. some of them to ma
terialize. In two or three instances
these blocks will be handsome, con-
spicuous buildings. Brick and con-
crete are to enter into the COnstruc
ton. and this more enduring material
will be more generally used in i'm
DrOvements hencefOrth. Heretofore
wood alone has been used for build
ings of all kinds, and this was largely
due to the difficulty of securing other
material, and its prohibitory cost
| when it could be secured. Besides
the blocks that are to be added to the
business district, number of resi-
dences are to be erected in various
quarters of the town, and these resi-
dences will be of better order, both
in appointment and appearance, than
those hastily constructed in the earlier
days of town building From what is
already in sight in the way of pros
pective building this paper is justified
in setting up the claim that the year
1912 will usher in the renewal of a
growth that has for some time been
in allegiance. and one that is not like
ly to halt for long period to come.
While throwing out congratulations
upon the evidence of healthy en-
largement of the town during the
present year, it can be added that
there are good and sufficient reasons
not only for present investments in
improvements. but why it is to be eX-
pected that such improvements will
continue from year to year indefinite
ly. Those reasons are simple and OBJ
vious to any one who will take into
consideration the situation of the
| town, and the advantages back of it.
| That backing is of an enduring nature,
and cannot be wrested from OrOville
| and diverted elsewhere. AS everybody
understands the building up of town
into OF C WHOLLY, 6pnnnd-
| ent upon settlement and development
| of the tributary surrounding country.
| A country that has no resources has
no hourishing towns to boast Of, for
there is nothing to foster flourishing
| towns. Here it is altogether different
A town could not be more fortunately
situated than Oroville in respect to
vast tributary trritory. The resources
of that territory are not only in evil
| dence, but they are diversified, and
each and every one of those resources
when properly developed. are sure
| sources of wealth to the developers
| There is fruit, and vegetables, and
melons. and grains, and hay, and hogs,
and sotck, and dairying, with mineral
| deposits of various kinds close in, to
select from. 1t is combination of
wealth producers that cannot be sur
passed. and one that few towns in the
west car boast of. These resources
have been lying dormant or only par.
TALLY developed. for years, but a
marked change for the better is grad
ually taking place. Men of capital
and earnest energy are beginning to
exploit these resources, and it is only
question of few years until the
country will be thickly settled, and
every mentioned source of production
contributing to the support of the in
creased population. 1t is this settle
ment and developement of the ada
cent lands that is to be the great
factor in upbuilding Oroville
TO what has already been enumer-
ated as contributory elements toward
nursing the growth of Oroville onward
and upward to a vigorous metropolis
might be added its fortunate situation
relative to means of transportation
And this advantage will grow better
with years, for as the country fills
up and u surplus OF products result
competing lines of railroad will in