The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-08-22
{ REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION
=. Al orchard Lands Under the
-..,.. system Representing
n Investment of Over
$8O,OOO.Oo.


N Investment OF over
ssO,OOO.Oo.
..aov a deal was closed in Oro'
- ~ which Charles Simpson, a well
!a..s aIs /" orchadist of Cashmere purch.
% ,,om Geo. H. Ellis and Jas. E
doing business under the friu
'.rs 'ss'' Of Ellis-Forde Orchards com
@ ~ $50 acres of land situated on the
,,de of the Okanogan river, some
=, miles south of Oroville, the con-
w. s..,Ion being in the neighborhood
! $4,000. Eighty acres OF this land is
: d,.year-old bearing apple trees
!, ,Oa acres is alfalfa and corn land,
!, INST as we'll adapted to fruit as the
~ ~ lpon which the trees are grow
!. This Is the largest individual
'.ssfer Of orchard lands that has ever
IN consumsted in the county. and
!. ,,le Of equal Importance has taken
...s IN the Wenatchee valley except
I, those syndicate sales of large
,,'ets that we're closed in that valley
ia,iue last spring. This sale was han
a.d by the real estate firm of Pfau
! Monroe. Of Wenatchee. in connec-
I'M with F. H. Furey. of Tonasket
rAo d also engaged in the real estate
business
me purchaser, Charles Simpson, is
,ssident of Cashmere where he has
hen engaged in the fruit growing
bnsnes sfor the past ten years. He
,lready owns 80 acres in bearing ap-
Ne trees in Wenatchee and Cashmere,
nd has crop this year that is val
md At over $4,000. He made this
Okanogan valley purchase as an in
,,tmsnt after carefully inspecting the
country and familiarizing himself
With its possibilities as fruit grow
hg district
This large orchard is about the last
4 the orchard lands that have been
deyeloped and held in common by
Nessrs Ellis and Forde. These gentle-
men are the pioneer commercial orch
,rd men Of the upper valley, and were
lle first to go extensively into the in
|msive cultivation and improvement
K valley lands. Their first venture
M putting out several hundred acres
u the west side of the Okanogan
fver, at point opposite and across
hs river from the land they have just
~ This enterprise was started a
g time before the installation Of
y Vest Okanogan Valley Irrigation
jt1di, and In order to water the land
large pumping plant was installed.
|hen hessrs. Ellis and Forde made
lsir first start nthe apple game
y land was barren waste. They
'ent yast amount of money in the
Ida yeltTe, but the result of ..heir
forts showed their judgment was
'und In few years the Ellis-Forde
lchard Tracts became one q the
ION places on the river, and their
ccess gave an impulse to orchard
andng In the valley. After the trees
NJ we'll started the large orchard
y cut up into small tracts and found
Ny buyers, In every instance where
yers have taken the proper care of
We tracts the orchard Is in a flour
ing condition and now bearing
willy.
Alter the Improvements on the land
the west side Of the river were we'll
der way Messrs. Ellis and Forde
nted out 30 acres of apples on the
! side Of the river, the land they
. Just disposed of. This orchard
yet out six years ago, and is just
ny coming into bearing. 1t is con-
vatively calculated that the ORCH
viii yield between 5000 and
wv boxes Of apples this year and as
crop goes to the new purchaser
Will receive very handsome in
Mt on his investment only a few
'xs after the investment was made.
ondition are favorable this orchard
produce from $4,000 to 10000
60 Of apples next year, so that if
es are at all in comparison with
ruling price of the present year
simpson, the purchaser, will clear
purchase price of the property in a
lew years. The 100 acres taken
with the orchard is in alfalfa
corn, and those crops are in
ilourishing condition. The pur-
9 price as represented in the
saction looks large, but the land
De considered very cheap when
pared with the ruling price for a
lar character of land in the We
nee valley.
'e sale is very important one for
locality as it will attract the at
on OF fruit growers to the dis
) not only on account Of the lrage
involved in the deal, but the fact
such an experienced orchardist
:. Simpson has shown his faith in
country by investing. People de-
9 10 engage in apple growing can
Y afford to pay the price asked
Nenatchee lands, especially when
as good land at a third or fourth
price can be secured under the
Okanogan Valley Irrigation sys-
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