The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-11-03
where PRODUCTS
EAcHPERFECT|oN
II Is Under the West OkanOgan Valley
Irrigation System that the Soil
Responds to Effort.

Few people OF the state realize the
fertility Of the soil in the Okanogan
valley under the West Okanogan VAL
ley Irrigation system, and regrettable
to say few efforts have been made by
those most directly interested in
bringing the advantages of the Okla
hogan valley directly to the attention
OF home seekers in other parts of the
state and country TO spread the gos-
pill OF the OkanOgan as an ideal home
for the man who is willing to give Ills
best in the cultivation of responsive
soil. Ocular evidence Of what this irri-
cation district will produce is never
wanting from year to year, and the
only reason that thej products seem
more varied and of a better quality
this year than heretofore is that more
labor and intelligence in the treat
ment and cultivation of the land is
being applied by the land owners.
There is nothing that grows in tle
temperate zone that cannot be repro
duced here in size, appearance and
flavor better than that produced any
where else in the same latitude, and
the ratification of this statement is
in the products themselves wherever
placed on exhibition.
1t is not claimed that that growth
here responds without effort ON the
part of the grower. Production is
concomitant upon effort on the part
Of human hands and human brains,
and those who have applied those
assistants to nature have won their
reward. Among those who have ap-
piled Drawn and intelligence to the
cultivation of the soil Is w. F. Ramsey
who has a show place along side of
crops eevry year are not matters Of
accident or the unaided response of
the glebe He works and the resultant
returns are to be seen in quantity of
products that cannot sbe surpassed.
Furthermore, Mr.. Ramsey believes in
publicity, not only as q stimulous to
the commercializing Of what he raises
but as an advertisement Qf the country
where the raising Of such products Is
possible. He rarely misses an oppor-
tunity to put on an exhibit where that
exhibit can do the most good. His last
effort in that line is display of his
products at Wenatchee, growing CEN
ter of population that consumes much
fruit and vegetables other than the
standard varities of apples that are
almost the only product of the We
natchee valley and where much of the
products of the land under the West
Okanogan Valley Irrigation system
is bound to find a market in future
years. The Wenatchee World of last
Friday has this to say OF the display
made by Mr.. Ramsey:
One Of the most interesting and
instructive displays of what the Okla
hogan county truck farmers are pro-
ducing can be seen in the window Of
tle Morris Hardware Company. The
display of garden truck and apples
was arranged by w. F. Ramsey Of
Ellisforde with products from his own
orchards and gardens.
The display includes onions that
will average 10000 pounds to the acre; !;
pumpkins, cabbage, fine large canta-
loupes, beets, red and green peppers,
turnips and potatoes. The potatoes
are among the biggest and finest tu-
bers grown.
Mr.. Ramsey, who has been in this
|section for five years, has So acres
of land close to Ellisforde station, 29
acres of which are in orchard, Is bear
ing. Part of Mr. Ramsey's land is de-
voted to hay. About 10 acres are used
for raising various kinds of truck, the
land where young ordchards are
standing also being utilized for this
purpose.
Mr.. Ramsey has a hot house in
which the tomato and other plants
are nurtured. The size and excellent
quality of Mr.. Ramsey's truck is a
token of the care and experience
which he applies to the business of
raising it,
Mr.. Ramsey's display placed in the
window Thursday morning attracted
considerable attention and comments
upon the quality OF the products were
numerous. An entire car of different
kinds of truck was sold by Mr. RAM
sey to a local meat company.
MANY Wenatchee people do not
seem to realize that just as good and
in many cases far better stuff is being
produced right north of them in Okla
hogan county than is shipped in here
for SALE" said Mr.. Ramsey. my idea
in arranging this display is not only
to dispose of my own products but to
snow the people here the quality OF
the things we produce there"
Besides the truck, exhibits of Deli.
cious apples running As to the box
and boxes of other varieties were dis.
played.
| r. H. Maus, editor and publisher o.