The Hood River Glacier, Hood River, OR., June 18, 1903, page 3

BUSINESS LIVELY AT TROUT LAKE

     J.W. Claterbos was in Hood River Wednesday from Trout Lake. "Times are lovely over in our section," said he. "Chris Guler, the hotel man, has 30 campers on his ground, and many people are coming in every week. The Trout Lake farmers are experimenting with cheese making. Mr. Townsend, the Pacific Coast cheese man, furnishes a cheese maker and markets the product, all for a commission of 2 cents a pound. The rest of the income is divided among the farmers on a co-operative basis. The factory is turning out about a ton of cheese a week, and has been in operation less than a month."
     Mr. Claterbos is owner and builder of the White Salmon-Trout Lake telephone line, which was put up this spring, and which is now being extended to Fulda and Glenwood. Mr. Claterbos says the people are taking readily to the use of the phones and that his line will began to prove profitable before long. Trout Lake service is furnished the Trout Lake farmers for $1.25 a month. At White Salmon connection is made with the Hood River system of the Pacific States Telephone company and the charges for 3 minute talks between here and Trout Lake are 50 cents.
     The Menominee Lumber company is meeting with success in driving logs down the White Salmon. A million and a half feet of timber is now nearing the mouth of the river, the high water carrying the timber down with a rush. Over 20 men are busy with the drive. Mr. Claterbos delivered 1,000,000 feet of logs to the Menominee company this year, most of it being extra fine yellow pine.
     A week ago last Sunday Mr. Claterbos lost three valuable cows by eating dynamite. Some log drivers had left the explosive on a rock near the river, and to the cows who ate it, it was a deadly poison, the animals all dying within an hour.
     At White Salmon C.M. Wolfard is doing an immense business in the general merchandise trade. Mr. Claterbos declares Mr. Wolfard is doing more business than any two Hood River stores.

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