The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., June 10, 1910, page 1

BINGEN MAY UNITE WITH US
Citizens Have Started a Petition Tho Commission is for Bingen

     The Oregonian had this report concerning the movement to add Bingen to White Salmon:
     June 6. - (Special) Bingen is to be incorporated with White Salmon if a majority of the citizens of that place have their way about it.
     Leading property holders have been conferring with the Council of this place to that end, and a petition will be presented in a few days. There has been considerable rivalry, sometimes bitter and acrimonious, between Bingen, located on the roadway at the foot of the bluff, and White Salmon at the top of the bluff.
     The station is named "White Salmon" and some time ago Theodore Suksdorf petitioned the State Railroad Commission to compel the railway company to disconnect Bingen and White Salmon on their tariff schedules. White Salmon, with four times the population, objected, as did the railroad. The Railroad Commission ruled in favor of Bingen, and today Mr. Suksdorf, of Bingen, received a letter from the Commission reiterating their former decision. The railway, however, will not make the change until compelled to by a higher court.
     With Bingen added to White Salmon the population will be over 1000.

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