The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-07-24

will be enough building going on the
balance of the summer to supply
lplenty of work for every contractor
builder and carpenter in town.
R. Grieger, the well known Oroville
booster, paid this Office a pleasant call
Wednesday. Mr.. Grieger has recently
Installed an up-to-the-m minute bottling
works at Oroville and was on a scout
ing expedition with view of putting
his goods on the market in this city.
He has probably the finest plant in
north central Washington and will no
doubt find a big demand for his pro-
duct.-Okanogan Independent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Powell and Dr.
and Mrs. j. L. Masters were among
a large crowd of Loomis, Nighthawk
land neighborhood picnickers who
sported in the water and on the shores
OF Palmer lake Sunday. At one time
during the day upward of rs people
collected on the grounds or were bob
bling around in the water. The good
people of Loomis sure manage to get
much joy out of life in a nationally
happy manner.
| There were autoing and boating
| parties scattered all along the shores
Of the lake Sunday and much sporting
| in the water Sone of the bathers
were careless of exposure under the
hot rays of the sun. and Monday were
nursing well scorched arms and backs.
To see the blisters reminded the writer
of his boyhood days on the old Mis-
sissippi, when a cooked back every
touch of a shirt
Chas. Tremain and Mr.. Liebler, of
New York, who are largely interested
in the Dividend Lake-View, are due
to arrive in Oroville next week. 1t
is to be hoped that their visit here
will be followed by more extensive
work ON the Dividend Lake-view and
Gold Dust, where large ore bodies
have been exposed, and to all ap-
pearance all that is needed is the ex-
penditure of only a comparative small
amount of money to make permanent
and paying mines.
r. d. Jones, the section boss at
Cordell, the first station south of Oro-
vile, reports some hot weather at
that point in the valley. The railroad
people had thrown side track in at
Cordell. 1t was a straight away track
when put down, but the heat warped
the rails until the siding is now on
IA degree curve. This may sound
snaky, but the track and the curve are
down there for any one to inspect who
will take the trouble to stroll down
and satisfy their curiosity.
Last week tempter with the Doodle
approached e. N. Grub with the in
quiry if $4,000 would induce him to
disconnect himself from the Hotel de
Grub. That is mighty snug sum,
but did not startle Mine Host Grub.
He held out for $4,000. But $4,000
IL sore temptation and in hard cash
is hard to resist. If the siren was in
earnest, and he intimated that he was
coming back with the inducement
then property values are making very
rapid advancement in Oroville.
The Dividend Lake-vicw is now
steadily shipping ore to the Green
wood smelter, and a fine quality of
ore it is. What is needed is smelter
in this neighborhood to treat the ores
of the surrounding country, or at least
sampling works where ore can be dis
posed of, Of course it is patent that
there is not sufficient tonnage opened
up to justify smelter at this time,
but the establishment of sampling
works would induce the opening up
| OF claims and sufficient ore would
be soon exposed to keep smelter
in steady operation.
e. s. Campbell returned last week
from a business trip to Portland and
San Francisco. He reports that the
fact that there is such a choice spot
on the face of nature as the Okanogan
valley, and such prospective live
town as Oroville has commenced to
percolate through the south land
People are talking Oroville and Okla
hogan on the outside, and a little
judicious publicity would start a cur
rent of humanity up this way that
would aid in filling up and building
up both town and country. Mr. Camp
bell has several mining deals in hand,
which, if closed, will lead to extensive
development in this section of the
northwest.
! Word has been received here that
| the Greenwood B. c., smelter is to
close down about the first of Sep
TENDER for an indefln1te period. The
Dividend Lake-View people have been
notified not toship any more ore to
| the smelter after the 18th of August
| While this is a regrettable situation
for Greenwood and the boundary
country just now, there is some sat
lisfaction in the report that though
the length of time the mselter is to
be dead is not known, the company
will go on opening up ground and
blocking out ore with the object OF