The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-01-23

model it certainly appeals to any one
who has had experience in placer min
| ing. If it proves to be the solution of
gold saving in the Similkameen. where
the presence of fine placer gold has
been known for over half century,
| and where mining is carried on more
or less extensively every summer, Mr..
Brooks will make a fortune out of his
| invention.
The announcement that Evangelist
| Osborn would preach to men only at
the Lyric theater Sunday afternoon
drew out crowded house. Far more
were present than would have attend
ed similar services in a church, for
there were men in that audience that
years. Rev. Osborn made a powerful
appeal for a cleaner manhood and told
some plain and solid truths that gave
many hearers pause. If any of his
words dropped upon fertile ground
and will contribute to the betterment
Of the individual then Mr.. Osborn's
visit and work in Oroville has not
been in vain.
A dance given by the Odd Fellows
at Tonasket last Friday evening at
tracted number of devotees of the
dizzy whirl from this place. The rep
resentation from Oroville would have
been far greater had it not been for
the unfavorable weather, but it is just
as well that few were unable to be
present, as the dance was the most
largely attended social affair of the
kind ever held in the county, and that
is no perfunctory exaggeration. We
are informed that some $50 tickets
$50 couples one can easily imagine
that the jam was something fierce But
the greater the crowd the greater the
fun and all who attended from this
place felt well repaid for their time
and trouble.
1t is reported that there is little or
no snow in the mountains back of
ConcOnully, on the head of Salmon
creek that supplies water for the big
reservoirs at Conconully from which
water is distributed to the government
irrigation district around Omak and
Okanogan, and considerable appre-
hension is felt that the supply of wa
ter will run short for next season.
This may be borrowing trouble for
there is plenty of time from now until
next spring for an ample fall of
snow. Water shortage will never
hs, FOL in, hn
Irrigation district Enough water for
irrigation purposes flows through the
channel the dryest years, and even a
heavy dew is often sufficient to make
the old Similkameen run bank full.
The Tonasket Commercial Club has
the right system for financing it's ac-
tivities. Every business and profess
ional firm and individual is assessed
cerain sum of money, and they pay
| cheerfully. The amount the Tonasket
club raised by that means was be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, which is
very respectable sum for a town of
that size. The same system could be
| inaugurated in Oroville Let those
who are called. upon to furnish he
sinews pay stated amount, payable
either at one time or in monthly in
stallments the latter method being
| the easier on the contributors. By
/ that means the treasury would al
| ways have cash on hand to carry out
any plan of the club and would do
| away with the practice Of making
| periodical drives, which are kind of
| getting on the nerves of the public.
! VIM. Ford, one of the oldest resi-
dents Of the county and at one time,
now many years ago, commissioner
of this county, spent Sunday in Oro-
vile visiting his niece, Miss Pauline
Davis. For the past 20 years Mr. Ford
has been wooing tickle fortune in
Alaska, with a visit to Okanogan at
long intervals. He came out last June,
but this is his first visit to Oroville
since his arrival. He was here some
three years ago for several months.
Mr. Ford is one of those cast iron men
of the west. Although so years of age
he is still pretty skookum individual.
He has just learned of a new STAN
Ipede in the north and he talks of
Joining the rush for gold, notwith-
standing his years. He took part in
almost all the stampedes that stirred
up the cupidity of the gold hunter in
Alaska during the score of years he
was resident of the far north and
he says he does not like to be counted
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