The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-04-27
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
FRIDAY APRIL g. 1928.
VERY WISE SUGGESTION.

ably a Wenatehee firm, treating of the
\ transportation situation in relation Il
the movement OF fruit in season more
particularly. Much OF the letter is de.
voted TO denunciation of the Great
Northern Railway company for it,
failure last fall to promptly supply
;; cars, Tor moving apples IN the We
natchee and OkanOgan districts. The
letter is very drastic in its criticism
1t has been the practice of newspapers
and contributors to the press within
the zone that suffered from the short.
age OF cars to denounce the railroad
Tor the unfortunate situation that pre-
: vailed at time when an important
industry was dependent upon prompt
, rail service. The railroad side of the
case has never been neard. The Great
Northern certainly did not intention
ally create a condition that could not
fail to prove OF far reaching injury TO
territory from which 1t derives @
large annual tonnage, nor would it in
tentionally antagonize the shippers OF
that territory where the tonnage to be
moved Is going to increase with each
succeeding year. 1t stands to- reason
that any transportation company
would do its utmost to meet a demand
that meant returns to the public serv-
er while benefitting those that the
road was serving. However the Ga
zette is holding no brief for the Great
Northern, only suggesting that the
company be heard, for the attack on
the railroad in the letter written by
Mr.. Gwin is not so important to US as
the following extract from that letter.
| which was the particular portion OF
| the letter that We had in mind to COM
ment upon wlen taking up the sub
| ject:
THE district also needs an "Oka-
hogan Northern railway" Growers.
shippers. bankers, newspaper men and
business men generally in the terri
tory including Okanogan. Omak,
Riverside, Tonasket, Ellisforde and
Oroville should organize a campaign
with the object of inducing the Can
adam Pacific railway to extend a spur
to Okanogan, tapping this already i'm
portant tonnage field. The c. p. r. is
now building an extension OF its line
southwark from Penticton to a point
not far distant from Oroville. The
Canadian Pacific is one of the best
equipped and best managed railway
systems in the world. Shippers in the
British OkanoSan last year suffered
no car shortage whatever and were
given first class service in other
transportation respects. II the Can
adam Pacific is not prepared to build
the line should be built by the COM
munity to be served"
This suggestion Of connecting up
with the Canadian Pacific railroad by
means of the branch that is being ex-
tended from Penticton to Oliver is not
new. The Gazette has again and again |
called attention to the Importance OF /
such a connection, apparently without |
second from other communities III |
the valley, although such connection |
would, as Mr.. Gwin says, be OF in
estimable advantage to every shipper |
in the Okanogan. 1t has time and
again been intimated that such connec-
ton would eventually be made, and as
such connection would mean consider
able haulage for the Canadian Pacific 1,
1t Is not unreasonable to suppose that |
the Penticton branch will at some flu
ture date be extended south to inter-
sect the Great Northern at Oroville.
At the present time the road is
graded from Penticton to Dog Lake,
where the railroad has barges that |;
will carry train of cars to the foot OF
the lake where approaches have al
ready been constructed and the grade
established and road bed prepared as
far south as Oliver. From Oliver to
OsoyOos is only few miles, and then
only two or three miles more until
.ne track Of the Great Northern can
De reached. or a few miles more and
connection can be made directly at
0royille. 1t is immaterial where the '
branch taps the Great I
Northern road the terminus would be T
It Oroville and then the valley would "
De in direct communication with the {
Pacific by means of the e
branch. t
How much more sensible this rail d
giving additional outlet to C
he products Of the Okanogan and We
atcnee valley, than that proposed new r
road from Wenatcaee and C
ow much more easily attainable. A In
Dad south from Wenatchee along the q
would be a most expensive b
Undertaking. OF course such a road =
an be built, for railroad engineers
owadays can overcome any and all
bstacles, but it would require much
me, and as stated, entail heavy cost.
IN the other hand there are no phys
al obstacles to overcome in extend
lg the Penticton brancn of the Can
dian Pacific toiOroville Nowhere in
lie west can railroad be built at less
tpense than would be the cost of ex-
ending this Canadian branch from
liver to Oroville. 1t can be built on a
ater grade with no heavy grading
r rock work. Connection with the
anadian Pacific by means of this
enticton branch is the natural solu-
on OF the congested transportation
,nditions at certain seasons in the
and Okanogan valleys.
1t may be added that connecting
lie Great Northern and the Canadian
acific at Oroville Is no idle dream,
I'D 1t may come about before the pub
c really relies II. For years the Can
iian Pacific has been considering
king over of the Great Northern