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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., November 3, 1910, page 1

BLOCKHOUSE HOTEL
Work About Done
To Accommodate Many Guests By Their Well-Appointed Hotel Conveniences

Jay W. Craghead, representing the Sentinel was in the vicinity of Blockhouse last week on office business, and called upon L.D. Baker, postmaster, and who has a general merchandise store. He learned that the hotel now in course of construction is going to be a pretty large affair and will mean a great deal to that vicinity. The Blockhouse Mineral Springs Company purchased twenty-five acres of choice land recently from Frank Saxton, on which the new hotel is built.
The hotel when finished this year will have forty guest rooms, but it is so constructed that an additional wing, to be built next year, can be added so that the capacity of the house will be something like 300 to 500 guests. The medicinal qualities of the mineral springs at this place is well known and for some time the project of building suitable accommodations to cater to the best class of trade, have been under way. Mr. F. Baker, formerly of Moorehead, Minnesota, at present residing in Portland, is largely interested in the company, we are informed, and he will probably move into the hotel this coming spring.
A great deal of work is yet to be done before the grounds are finished. A fine ornamental arrangement will be made of set trees and shrubbery, all of the grounds to be leveled. As is usually the plan at these health springs, accommodations will be made for visitors who desire to camp out near the springs, where they can secure the baths and medical attendance. A fine orchard has been set out or, will be set out this fall, and the work of changing the course of the old spring creek has already commenced.
A bath house 150x300 will be built shortly. The people at the head of this enterprise are in every respect live and up-to-date, and will make a substantial paying enterprise of this undertaking. Their spring has first class medicinal qualities, unexcelled for the treatment of rheumatism as well as many other disorders, and with medical attendance and first class appointments, they look forward to doing a good business from the start.