The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., May 6, 1911, page 5

BINGEN

     Some years ago, some citizens of Bingen and vicinity organized the Washington Navigation Co. Its main object being to run a ferry boat between Bingen and Hood River. The company procured a suitable boat for the project and commenced business, owning the land from which they started and on which they landed. They had made but one or two trips when they were served with an injunction on behalf of O.C. Dean who was running a ferry from the White Salmon landing to Hood River on a franchise from the county, which Dean claimed gave them exclusive right to run a ferry across the river within a distance of several miles up and down the river. The results of the injunction was that the Washington Navigation Co., was prohibited from doing business and had to stand a financial loss.
     The injunction case was tried before Judge Bradshaw at The Dalles, who decided in favor of Dean et al, and the injunction made perpetual. The case was appealed to the Supreme court, and has just been decided. Mr. Moore, one of the Washington Navigation Co., stockholders, yesterday received a dispatch from Salem, stating that the court had reversed Judge Bradshaw's decision on every point, and had dissolved the injunction against the Washington Navigation Co., and granted an injunction asking for, to prohibit Dean et al., from landing on land claimed to be owned by Mr. Moore.
     The Dean ferry has been running steadily, and under the monopoly of the franchise, has been a veritable gold mine, its earnings estimated at from $10 to $50 a day.

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