The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-11-28
REPORT ABOUT READY

A e. Wieland, of Wenatchee, engi-
neer in charge of the survey and
compiling of estimates for the East
and West Okanogan Valley Irrigation
districts, and his able assistant, C. E.
Aediker, of Loomis, have about CON-
pleted their work and the report will
be at once submitted to the railroad
authorities at st. Paul, who were in
Strumental in having the projects re-
surveyed. Field and office work is
practically completed, maps and pro-
liies are drawn, estimates made, and
all the data required has been COL
lected. The gentlemen in charge have
carried out their instructions pains
takngly and minutely. Nothing has
been left to chance or conjecture
Since July Messrs. Wieland and Zed-
lker have been steadily at work, going
carefully into every phase of the pro-
jects, and overlooking none of the es-
sentials. The information wanted was
OF character that required research
and labor to assemble and those Sc
iected to assemble that information
nave carried out their instructions to
the letter. Mr. Wieland is on the
coast this week comforting with the
railroad engineers, and Mr.. Zediker is
ut his home. The figures will be gone
over, checked up and verified by the
engineer in chief, Mr.. Stewart, and
then forwarded to headquarters. No
inkling has been given out as to the
nature of the findings, but from a
partial report submitted to the direct
nrs of the districts some weeks ago it
Is safe to predict that the final report
IS very favorable. The directors meet
early in December. when the engineers
will no doubt make at least a partial
report as to the contents of the docu-
ments sent up to st. Paul.
The completion of the work has
been necessarily slow, as accuracy was
absolutely requisite in a report cover
ing such an important and expensive
proposition. The engineers could not
afford to be hasty or slipshod, as
other engineers of wide reputation in
the profession were to check up the
notes, and no engineer cares to nuder-
go the humiliation of having a report
rejected, or even adversely criticised.
The public has waited patiently for
the completion of this work, and will
be pleased to know that the reports
are ready for submission. Already
the starting of the projects has been
deferred much longer than was ex-
pected when the proposal was first
suggested. The hope is entertained
that the railroad authorities will ac-
cept the reports, and consider the
undertakings so feasible that they will
at once exercise their influence in
floating the bonds so that work of
construction can commence early in
the spring. 1t will certainly be a day
to celebrate in Oroville and the valley
when ground is first broken for the
big irrigation projects.
A feature of the situation that is re-
Trettable is that with the completion
of the office work the removal of two
most estimable gentlemen must fol-
low. Both Mr.. Wieland and Mr.. Zed-
iker are not only proficient members
Of the profession they follow, but per-
sonally are most agreeable and pleas
ant gentlemen in their daily relations
with their fellowmen. They have made
friends, and many of them, during
their several months residence in Oro-
vile, friends who have been in hopes
that they could see their way clear
TO locate in this place permanently.