Pr0vinci ^braryLae2lt22i ¥>z>\±csyeb. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SUM MERLAND, PEACHLAND AND NARAMATA Vol. 12, No. 49, Whole No. 670 SUMMERLAND, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1921. $2.50, Payable in Advance managed to keep their uniforms, the neatest boy on parade each day win• ning a point for his patrol. A fur• ther incentive was offered, in that the winning patrol each day were allow• ed the tumbling mats to sleep on. Points were awarded each day as follows: Should Be Two Feet Lower Than This Spring's Minimum To Nothing Beng Done to Improve To Abandon It Would Be Bad Communication With North Neatness of patrol 5 | Take Care Of Normal Run-off. Some Valuable Stat• Conduct during day (and night)—. 5 Business, Says Visitor Condition of tent 5 istics On Water From The Lake Water Shed Condition of grounds 5 Equipment ........ 5 That the patrols were eager in the An interesting and valuable report ation during the months of May and Department May Abandon the competition can be seen from the Camping Sites Proving Valua• on the subject of the water level of June does not probably exceed 60,- Shore Road and Build Bet• total number of points won. The ble Assets to Communties Okanagan Lake was submitted a few 000 acre feet. ter Upper Road Kangaroos, Leader Jack Harris, led days ago by Major J. C. Macdonald This indicates that the water en• with 187.5. The Eagles, Leader Ron• Providing Them „ to Mayor D. W. Sutherland of Kel• tering the- fake during these two ald White, and the Owls, Leader Ivo owna. In this he points out that the months is some 210,000 acre feet in "'Before any further money is spenc«.vt j jjarrjs tjecj for second place with 187, Ardent enthusiasts in favor of good level of the lake at the approach of excess of that going out.' Though on either the lakeshore road or thel^j^ the Coyotes> Leader j0hn De- roads, and the encouragement of the freshet season must be two feet the rate of run-off from the hills dur• high road between Summeriand and • tourist travel, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. nike followed closely with 186 lower than it has been held of late ing the present year was abnormally Peachland the Public Works Depart- Cushing of Kelowna passed through to avoid recurrence of this year's fast, the amount of run-off was in no ment intends to make a thorough ex• Too much cannot be said of the ar• Summeriand on Thursday, returning flood conditions. Major Macdonald way unusual, and, while the rise in amination of the whole situation. tistic display of the grounds of the from a combination pleasure and bus• Kangaroos and Eagles, the Kangaroos the lake has been more rapid that According to Engineer W. T. Gwy- iness trip to Wenatchee. says: " winning an extra point over the oth• usual, it is-not an-excessive amount. er the Department has two alterna• The average run-off of the Okana• ers on the interior of the tent the Mr. Cushing, who is a director of A similar rise is, bound to occur in tives. One to abandon the lower gan River at Okanagan Palls for the final day. the Kelowna Fruit Growers' Ex• any normal year, unless the level of road altogether on account of the change, stated that he understood an four "years .1916-1920 was 288,000 For perhaps the first time at any acre feet. The run-off during 1920 the lake is verji considerably lowered heavy upkeep required on it, the ne• unofficial report was being circulated' before, the spring run-off commences. cessity of widening out tho rock cor• camp at which the writer }. as been that nothing would be done at present was below normal, and was undoubt present, there was no "kick" at the edly held back by the present control The gears' 1916-1920, on which these ners and the danger of tie-up!- from towards the fixing of the lake shore figures are based," were normal years. slides and washouts. The abandon• rations. For breakfast i here was al• road. In his estimation, this would at the outlet of the lake. Had this ways plenty of porridge, ham or eggs, Records kept for the past ten years ment of the lower road would mean be a bad piece of business, as he con• control not been in place, the figures and pancakes or bread and jam.,. for 1920, would probably have been on some of-'the creeks flowing into the relocation and reconstruction of sidered it one of the most picturesque sufficiently higher to bring the aver• the lake indicate that the annual run• the high road in order to make it a Lunch always saw plenty of soup, driveways in the Okanagan Valley, first class highway. roast or steak, Vegetables and pie or and would very much deplore the fact age up to 300,000 acre feet. Of this off may easily double the average of WHO SAID COAL? quantity it is estimated that an aver• these years. Had an unusually high The other alternative is to repair pudding, while for supper macaroni that it was not going to be attended, age of 43,000 acre feet comes in be• water occurred this season, t-he con• the lower road but also to keep the and cheese or rice pudding, cake and to at once. ' tween the outlet of the lake and the sequences would have been undoubt high road in its present condition for fruit filled the menu. One wonders "The time is ripe, I believe," said falls, ^leaving an average quantity edly disastrous. * use'in case of blockades on the lake- when one thinks, how Mrs. Miller Mr. Cushing, "for co-operation be• out of the lake of,, roughly, 260,000 A study of the above .figures shows shore highway. This alternative managed to find time'to bake for so tween the people of the various dis• acre feet. beyond doubt that the present high) would not provide for any further many hungry youths, but she did, and tricts in the Okanagan, for the pur• Of the total of 485,000 acre feet, water will be an annual occurrence improvement of the upper roadway, the three heai'ty cheers given by the pose of encouraging and accommo• it can be conservatively estimated unless the level of the lake is lowered Funeral of Late Charles Greer Fruit Shipments Will Be 9 Per beyond its present condition, boys at the close of tamp were gen• dating the touring public, by supply• that 80 per cent, or, say, 390,000 acre in anticipation of the spring run-off. Was Largest in History of Cent. More Than in 1919, j Engineer Gwyer's personal opinion uine to the*core ing them with all possible facilities feet, comes into the lake during the • My knowledge of the dimensions of | is said to be in favor of abandoning While the camp was without doubt for that purpose. The municipality Neighboring Town. The Banner Year. on months of May- and June. the control at the outlet of the lake the lakeshore road and relocating'and | e of the happiest yet, it was marred at Kelowna has recently opened a Tha highest mean monthly flow of is limited to what I haVe gained by reconstructing the upper highway so by the fact that it was the last time large park* as a camping site, provid• Following a week of illness during Vancouver.-7-r:p,kanagan fruit ship• the river recorded during, the above casual observation in passing, but I as to provide a road which will be out we would be able to have with us ing domestic water, tables and seats, which death^was momentarily expect• ments this saaso'i'i are expected to four year^ was 1,230 cubic feet per am of opinion that the average rate of danger of high water washouts, one of the hardest "working and most etc., and with painted signs and direc• ed, Mr. Charles Greer, one of Pentic- break all past records in point of vol• tions bidding touring motorists to second. In a river flowing from a of run-off during the rime the -lake seepage trouble and slides. capable A.S.M.'s the troop has ever ton's pioneer citizens passed- away on ume. rest awhile." lake this size the highest mean level-is rising from a point two feet been fortunate to have. Owing to his Wednesday of last week. He had At a meeting of general superin• monthly rate very closely approxi• below that at wheh it was held A BUSINESS CHANGE. leaving Summeriand for Vancouver, Mr. and Mrs. Cushing are making- fyeen attending a social function the tendents of western lines of' the C. mates the maximum rate. of. flow. throughout the past winter, to a point Mr. Tees leaves a gap that will be preparations for an auto trip into week before when he suffered a rup• P.R. held in Calgary, last week, the Within the last two weeks the flow one foot above that, would not much- Announcement js made in pur ad• hard to fill. Energetic to the core, Calif qrnia next year. During their ture of a blood vessel in his head, question of the traffic outlook for the "Pete" worked with the boys getting outing this year to Wenatchee they of the river has risen as high as 2,000 exceed 500 cubic feet a second, or a , : vertising columns in this issue to the 1 v , 1 ; <wusing•.•^aBH«l.•5^£S^RsSyarss•-'••-^ '• ••'f.