The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-13
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| Say: if YOU only noticed it, Oroville
| is becoming quite modern little
| town, speaking modestly, and slowly
steadily but surely forging ahead, to-
| ward the city class. This has not been
accomplished through any high tenn
pcrature, fevorish boom. but 1t has
been Il gradual expansion, accompan-
| led by up-,o-datc improvements that
make for civic betterment and per-
manency In the way of population,
Oroville does not as yet cut any great
figure, but few communities of the
same size can boast of more public
utilities and private improvements OF
Il noticeable character, nor more OF
item. The very last marked change
for the better has been the grading
and maCademizing of Il number of the
principal streets that largely does
away with the dust nuisance, and
wholly eliminates the nasty patches
of mud that in he past have been so
objectionable at certain seasons of the
year The great utility of graded
streets is only surpassed by the mark
ed Improvement they make in the gen.
eral appearance of The town. This is
only one of the moderized items that
make up the conveiicncCs and at
fractions of the place. A few can be
enumerated. The town has a splendid
and for the present, ample, system of
water supply. The ramification of
the entire town site 1t is supplied
with electric lights and electric power
from a plant at the falls of the Simil-
kameen. 1t might he said the light
ing is hardly a feature to boast of
as TO the intensity of illumination, yet
on the other hand it covers a very ex-
tensive territory and at night the place
has the appearance of being several
times larger than it really is. The ed
II,
besides very handsome high school
building. conspicuously located. there
are other rooms occupied for school
purposes about the town. The town
has the largest and best conducted no.
tells to be found anywhere in. the
communities of the state, one
OF them large and handsome enough
to attract attention in a city. There
are cement sidewalks in the business
section. Two excellent moving picture
shows. Several churches where the
inclined can find places in
which to worship. A public library
a gem in the matter of archi-
lecture, located in pretty little park.
Public baths-which might be improv-
ed. by the way-which are daily pat
ronized during the summer months by
old and young. Railroads running
from the town east, west ard south,
with yardage and trackage provided
for place many times the present size
of Orovillc. A band that is second to
non1 in the country. Several secret
societies, one owning it's own hall.
Two charming rivers ON the cast and
west borders of the corporate limits,
with large lake at the rorth end OF
| town that for beauty is not to be sur
passed in the west, and other attrac.
| tons too numerous to mention.
Take it from us, Oroville is a nift,
ycung ter, with the most flatterins
prospects of more rapid growth il
the future than in the past, a growth
| that will be stimulated by the con
struction of the irrigation system nov
well under way and the accompanying
reclamation of the at present barver
lands. There T. going to be a city u,
this way somewhere and at some tim,
and Orovillc is the logical and natura
point for that city. You cannot &c
Iaway from that fact, and it does not re
lquire prophet to figure it out.