The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-26
INFORMATION WANTED

4. w. Smith, who is familiar with
the advantages that a cannery is to
any town or locality, and knows what
a valuable asset it is, has been in cor
|respondence lately with canning COM
panies with a nation wide reputation
that have an eye on this locality as a
promising field for exploitation The
vital question propounded is, what do
you, or what can you, raise that would
make it an object to locate a cannery
at this point? People who enter the
cannery business do not accept con-
lecture or guess work as to the mater
ial obtainable. A cannery of even
moderate capacity must have GER
tain amount of fruit and vegetables
to handle, and that amount must be
certain at the time it is to be used. Ii
would be impossible to secure a plant
Of the kind without those fostering the
enterprise being convinced that the
raw material was to be had, and in
quantity and quality to justify the in
vestment. Without this knowledge it
would be throwing away money to
start a cannery, as it would be to start
a flour mill where wheat could not be
secured or smelter where there was
no mineral within reach.
Now, in order to secure some re-
liable figures the Gazette has been re-
quested to appeal to land owners and
orchardists in this vicinity to send
il an estimate of what each person
could be depended upon to deliver in
the way of small and large fruit and
vegetables. 1t is not expected that
these figures shall be absolutely cor
rect, but at least approximately what
b. a cannery from the various land
owners. 1t is only by this means that
an idea can be formed as to whether
the required stuff can be produced in
sufficient quantities to make it an OBJ
ject to install a cannery. These COM
munications should be addressed to
the Gazette office, and they will pass
on to the right hands. 1t is hoped
that this request will not be treated
with Indifference and responses ne
elected, because if the reports prove
to be favorable the slight effort to
make out such estimates may lead up
to important results.
1t is hardly necessary to waste space
t. impress upon the land owners OF
this part of the valley the great i'm
portance it would be to them if
cannery were established at Oroville.
the surrounding country to require
any lengthy explanation. At present
there is only a limited market for
those things that the fertile valley
lands can produce in prodigious abun-
dance. A cannery would create mar
ket directly at home, and be the means
OF putting much money in circulation.
Not alone is a cannery attractive as
creating a home market for produce
or the soil, but for several months in
the year it will give employment to a
large force of women, girls, boys and
men, providing pay roll that con-
tributes to the general prosperity OF
a community. Some means must be
eventually provided for utilizing the
surplus products of the orchard and
garden, and cannery, one of the sew
eral means, is the most attractive and
the one easiest to secure. Pickle fac
tories, drying works and evaporators
will follow, if they do not Immediately
accompany, the establishment of a
cannery, and in order to secure this
very desirable industry no effort
should be spared by those most di-
rectly interested in such an enter
prise.