The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-12-19
OROVILLE TO
HAVE CANNERY

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Orovllle is to have a cannerv ney
year. There is no false alarm abou
this statement Plans have been mad
ana those plans are to be carried on
without hitch, of course providin
ehe land owners Of this part of tn
valley feel sufficient interest in
cannery to supply the raw material f.
Keep the plant going. And we are will
ing to risk the declaration that the,
are. There are noAStrings on the an
nouncement here made. The Gazett
feels as confident that the cannery will
be reality for 1920 as though tn,
buildings were already. up and full,
equipped. &&
1t has long been realized that a can
merry was an essential industry fo,
this place. Experience has demonstrat
ed beyond all question of doubt tha
the fruits and vegetables required for :
! cannery can be raised in abundance,
ance under the irrigation system. anc
OF quality that cannot be surpassed
Every year tons of these products go to
waste, and other tons over and aboy,
those grown could be produced if there
was market for the same immediate.
ly at home. The cannery is going tc
provide that market, a market that can
be depended upon.
The committee that has the provid-
ing OF this cannery in charge is Geo
Bailey and Fred Clark A better selec-
ton for that purpose could not be
made. They have eliminated the word
fall from the lexicon that they use
Mr.. Bailey says that the cannery will
be provided, and when Bailey goes
after anything he generally gets it. He
has not failed in the past and he is
not going to break the record as Il
resident of Oroville., What this COM
mittee wants is the written pledge of
responsible land owners to plant and
raise 200 acres of tomatoes. That is
what is wanted for this single vege-
table. Two hundred acres is a bagatello
compared with the available acres that
can be devoted to that single product
under the West Okanogan Valley Irri-
cation system. That number of acres
should be Oversubscribed instantly. Let
every land owner who is willing to
sign up for tomatoes, be it one acre or
twenty, interview either Mr.rClark or
Mr.. Bailey. The soeS i1is Is done the
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item and then get in communication
with either of these gentlemen. BY The
first week in January signatures
should be attached to sufficient num-
ber of contracts to insure more than
the 200 acres, and the contracts should
be in not later than that date. There
is to be no sleeping at the switch in
the matter of this cannery. The cont
mittee is busy on the project at this
time. The parties who are 70 put in
the plant are already lined up, are
willing to make the investment and it
is only up to the growers to make il
possible to supply the long felt want
In past years promise has been hel1
out for a cannery at this place. Thro-
ugh the Commercial Club strong ef-
forts have been made to secure an en-
terprise of the kind Negotiations last
year came very near landing the long
wished for industry, but some untor-
seen hitch has heretofore prevented
the town from realizing the dream OF
the population. Based upon the infor-
nation that has reached this office il
is felt safe to repeat what is declared
at the beginning of this item, that Oro-
Vile will have a cannery to handle
portion at least of the products that
have made this part Of the valley IA
nous. There is every reason to believe
from the success that has followed
similar ventures in less favored local
tiles that an investment Of the kind a
Oroville will prove profitable to th'
operators, and supplying local mar
ket will be of inestimable benefit t.
the land owners of the vicinity. Wher
conditions are favorable cannerie
have always flourished. An instance t.
prove this contention is the cannery a
Keremeos, where soil and climatic con
ditions are similar to the soil and eli
mate at this place. From a modest be
ginning the Keremeos cannery has de
veloped into an enormous plant wit
an enormous annual output of came
goods that are classed as the best O
the kind on the market. A similar re
| suit is certain to follow a venture Q
the kind at Oroville, and from. the in
| itial venture We feel certain that
local cannery will steadily grow unit
it becomes one of the most importan
| industries of the kind on the coas
Some may consider this a wild cor
lecture but why not? There is no le
cality better adapted for the CROWN
of vegetables and small fruits Of ever
description, and there is room enoug
in the valley upon which to produe
all that class of products that can {
|used no matter what may be the capa'
ity for the plant installed for that pu
nose. But let us get the first unit, an
that is what we are going to get, an
other units will be installed as the d
mand for the output requires. In Il
meantime aid the committee IN Il
good work of securing the acrea'
nledge that is to insure the cannery
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