The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-12-27
- - BO0N FOR OROvILLE
J , = f11lDl and Cultivated by Re.
- DG11lers Under Direction
~ c. government.

\ - IN Ave miles of Oroville
n = = ~ 1ieg Is the International
- ~ between the United
Dritish Columbia. and ex-
I'D that line northward
i 6nlion of the Okanogan
0noean on the other side
7& ~ valley. From the bound
- n twenty or twenty-five
r. kvard there are broad
= = choice land as can be
te northwest, only awaiting
3f|6A OF water to make Of
I veritable Eden, and for
" RI G1nnce there Is not single
A ~ G1t1on on either side Of
3 1 (luveled road, and the only
leupied, 80 far as notice.
y vast domain is the two
Qooyoos, where the Gus
q heated, and the ranch
~ Haynes. Lying idle out
~ ot the very best in guam
1T to supply homes for
y nmilies and 1t has always
~ Why some effort has
]. = the past to reclaim
~ open 1t for settlement.
~ the reason the fact re-
\ Is unimproved as though
~ tQ thousand miles remote
AvI1ntion instead of being in
e. oneh with two of the most high
e1nedve and improved sections
southwest, the Penticton fruit
= q the north and the Oroville
= sdjoining 1t on the south
- nd Of its uselessness and
esponcy is In sight, and the
b. nofion Of that change is going
= great influence upon the
~ q 0roville while it adds
~ = aud population to the province
3! - q which the land Is situ-
~ s&
~ Provincial government, with the
q y providing homes for soldiers
sng from the war in Europe, has
- this great expanse of land
elng 1000 acres, and Is plan
y carry out a system OF irriga-
reeiatm the same. We publish
~ ~ announcement Of the leal
sonrs in the Vancouver Pro =
u eo1nber II, for this inforna-
~ ~ loeative and will be read
- . = me- interest by the people
- 49, ace nd surrounding country.
!nsfe Y little to add to what is set
~ = ~ article. The land men
a z simply continuation of the
"a a valley and everybody
z *nat the Okanogan valley can
/. .ae way Of productiveness un-
ster. That Is demonstrated by
Mest Okaogan Valley Irrigation
a 81 tnat carries water Immediately
boundary line. Directly on the
A. usct owners have demonstrated
i. j 'su't' corn, vegetables and alfalfa
|. IN oe expected of the adjacent
4 4 nen once reclaimed. That irri-
e VIII be done by water taken
Il me Okanogan river further
-. - Dus Irrigation can be expedited
~ soutn end Of that big tract by
4, - some arrangement with the
nsation district to take water
'ue Similkameen river through
... es and bitches already con-
,c'ed Those fumes and bitches
!. - pe enlarged at comparatively
~ expense to water several thou.
.cres OF the British Columbia
~ tnus greatly expediting re-
uon OF the land, and now that
. sO'o'er boys are coming home time
y. essence of any movement that
lor lts object aid from a grateful
.rnment.
9 nave good ground to hold that
,e'tiement OF these lands will be
powerful factor in the upbuild-
~ oroville. Undoubtedly there
~ townsites laid out on this I'M
tract, but here is already a
'ning town within few minutes
=. Besides Oroville is at a rail-
.enter where people going to or
as from this particular section
'eacn eastern, southern or west
polnts much more readily and ex-
.'ously than by travelling to the
" Ihen as certain as the settle
Oh That setcion a railroad will be
.lucted from Oroville not only to
'ais large productive domain but
10 extended clear through to
lcton. II Oroville's future was
u before it was made many times
lter the day the British Columbia