The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-04-07

pucO l nat Will
Insure Capac-
| ity Output.
The Oroville cannery will opera
te this season and the Okanogan
Valley Growers Cooperative asso-
citation will supply straw wberries,
tomatoes and Gull apples enough
to insure the output OF a capacity
pack.
This was the decision reached at
a meeting held Wednesday after
noon between directors and the
cannery company and number of
the board OF directors of the grow
ers association.
The mutual dependence of cannery
and growers was recognized at this
meeting and it was agreed that both
organizations must work together to
best promote the interests of each.
The Immediately necessary thing is
, to induce the raising OF sufficient to-
matoes to insure as big a pack as the
cannery is capable Of putting into
tins and every effort viii be made to
have this done. 1t is planned to pack
soft berries and Gull apples besides
tomatoes this year. This will mean a
longer season of operation and big
ger resource for growers.
The growers cooperative association
is now an established fact, with forty
four members signed UP by Wednes-
day and many more certain to sign
in the next few days.
The pack produced by the Oroville
cannery last year has won such a
reputation that premium is being
offered for the tomatoes that will be
put up this year at the local plant.
advantage of several attractions that
cannot be surpassed anywhere, no
matter what points OF the compass
may be followed. .Probassty there Ia no
more soul inspiring panorama to be
found in this or any other country
than that stretched before the OBJ
server on q clear day from Portland
Heights. Beneath the ridge and almost
as far as the eye can reach the city
lies in bas relief with the Willamette
bisecting the tumble of houses and a
glimpse of the Columbia in the dist
ance. Then far beyond, rearing their
hoary heads out of the landscape
stand those monster sentinels that
have been guarding the land since
Jehova said Let there be light"
Rugged Mount Hood, Symetrical
Mount Adams, Mount st. Helens,
Mount jefferson, and far in the dist
ance the royal head of Mount Rainier
lifts above the horizon. Say; it Is a
picture that would arouse enthusiasm
in a marble statute, it would warm the
cookies Of the heart Of an artist, and
to an imaginative word hounl it
would provide theme that would tax
his pen to q superlative degree We
are not going to shock our readers
by throwing any Autographed
spasms. To be fully appreciated 1t
should be seen, for the choicest words
would give very Indifferent descrip-
ton Of this incompatible picture. Our
advice to those who ever extend their
travels to the coast is to cOlue ard see
it for themselves and enjoy one of the
most delightfully."- pleasing sights their
eyes have ever rested on.
Portland is fortunately provided
with many paved highways leading
through the hills and valleys, opening
up new vistas of beauty at almost ev-
cry turn. One of these routes which
have become famous, and which is an
important attraction to visitors to the
city, is the Columbia highway, wind
ing in and out along the sinuous Co.
lumbia river, at times close down to
the river shore and then hish up IN
the mountain side from which eleva-
tions vast views of the Columbia and
the narrow valley through which it
flows are in view. For the motorlst il
is doubtful if any part of the west
holds out so many charming stretches
of paved roads as are to be found
around Portland. and few motor tour
lists coming out of the east into the
west fail to prolong their trip 10 this
part of the coast just for the pleasure
of defying the speed regulations on
the Portland highways.
We of mature age. whom some
would place in the class with the
lean and slipper'd pantaloon," are
much in the habit of recalling the
past, and while on the subject of Port
land we are moved to hark back To
the time of our first visit to Portland
in December, 1882. Portland at that
time was not the town it is today In
deed, 1t was a pretty sloppy, dingy
I shabby looking place as we remem-
Der it. Most of the town was huddled
down near the river shore, and what
we could see Of it through one of those
Oregon mists, which was earnestly on
duty during the few days that we
were guest Of the city, was anything
but prepossessing. The sidewalks
were Of board and very much decrepii
and the streets pretty we'll churned
up into a muck. We made a few ex-
cursions on foot out into the timber
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