The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-31

town require fixing in sundry spots
in order to make them passable for
pedestrians. This thing of being COM
PEELED to make wide detour in 60
1 ing from one place to another, or
i wade through water up to ones mid
die, is hardly conducive to cheerful
spirit among the population. A few
loads of gravel here and there drain
pipes of sufficient capacity at other
places. and a few repairs in sidewalks
would greatly improve conditions over
which there is now much complaint.
The road up Tonasket creek toward
Nelson is simply impossible. with the
road bed washed out all the bridges
for some distance up the hill drifting
down into the Pacific ocean. It is
calculated that it will require upward
of $4,000 to put that road back in
the condition 1t was before the heavy
flood. In the meantime the road
around by the way OF Nine-Mile creek
| Is being patched UP to make it pass
able for travel. No matter how well
mountain roads are constructed I'M
Hess cut out of the living rock they
would Re unable to withstand the
strain of such flood waters as swept
down the hills last Thursday.
Owing to the flood at Tonaskct, ',ur-
ing which the Office was invaded by
water, the Times was forced TO issue
small four sheet paper, which was
designated as the Flood edition.
We feel sighted that MIR. Putnam,
publisher Of the Times, did not appeal
to the Gazette for aid In the hou; of
his difficulty. This Office would have
been as free to him as the air he
breathes. 1t was known that the
flood had encroached upon the Times
office, but we never dreamed to such
an extent as to interfere with the
regular routine of business or the
freedom Of this plant would have been
extended to the publisher of TIE Times
in his dilemma.
The First National bank puts on an
annual corn exhibit, giving prizes for
the best locally grown corn. The num-
Ter of exhibits are increasing every
gear, showing that more attention is
being paid to the growing of corn,
and the quality IS steadily improving.
This year there were quite a num-
Der of exhibitors and the awards
were made Saturday, County Agricul- /
lurist Holt acting as judge. J. A. |
.lcGinty took the prize for the best
Golden King corr and Stuart Mulch |
the prize for the best Silvcr King |
corn. In both instances the quality |
was as good as could have been
grown anywhere in the country
where corn is a staple product
Williams & Finnie are advertising
their brick yard equipment for sale. |
During the past several years Messrs. |
williams & Finnie have manufactured |
a quality of brick that experts con-
tend equal anything of the kind on
the market. Regrettabe to say the
demand for the brick has not been |
such as to encourage extensive out
put, although there is every reason |
to expect that the demand will greatly |
increase in the near future. How
ever, Mr.. Finnie has ranch and has |
of late been devoting his time to farm
ing, and now Mr.. Williams is DESTROYS
OF following the same line of indus !
try. Getting back to the farm means
getting out Of the clay pit and they
have extensive equipment that they |
desire to turun into money. Hence
the offer for sale of the parapher-
MALTA on hand necessary for use in
the manufacture of brick.