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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., February 16, 1911, page 1

GOLDENDALE INDUSTRIES AND ENTERPRISES
One of the Series of Articles to Appear under this Head

THE CAMERON LUMBER COMPANY

Goldendale wants manufacturies, and with the excellent water power sites available any manufacturer will do well to look up. An abundance of timber is available in our vicinity which can be easily utilized, in fact one of our local lumber institutions is shipping vast quantities east. It looks reasonable to concede that the cost of manufacturing would be no higher and the shipping facilities are such as to warrant such permanent industries in or near this city.
The Cameron Lumber Company, of this city, with offices in Portland, who operate extensively in the northwest, is shipping considerable Klickitat White Pine to the east, and is creating a demand for this excellent wood. Manufacturers who are using it state it is particularly valuable for sash and door manufacturer as well as for all general building purposes.
It is easily worked and has a ready sale among the eastern contractors. The mill, when working to capacity can ship from eight to ten cars out of this city a week, and at no time in the year are they idle, their local retail trade as well as local western shipments demanding their products in large quantities.
This company with J.E. Cameron, president, Thos. E. Cole, secretary and treasurer, both of Portland, and G. Wells Cameron, vice-president, and local manager, purchased the plant and its holdings in March 1910, and have enjoyed a good business. The mill property formally known as the Klickitat Pine Lumber Company, is well equipped, and by modern business and up-to-date machinery, is not only a valuable asset to its owners, but to the community as well. Their plant includes two planners, band re-saw, and a self feeder rip-saw, and they specialize in the fir flooring, shingles and bevel siding. Beside the local mill they control the output of two mills in this vicinity and when working to capacity employee upwards to 75 men, who all receive good wages. This in itself is quite an item in the pay-roll of Goldendale, and with a few more such enterprises, a substantial stream of money would weekly flow into the commercial business channels of the city.
Klickitat pine and as well as the sugar pine, which both have a big demand in the east for the manufacture of sash and doors. The company have made an effort to build up their local and eastern trade and look forward to a bumper business this year in both channels of their trade. The market is looking today better than for many months previous, and indications are good for long and steady runs. In establishing a local retail yard with a plentiful supply of the products subject to demands for local consumption, they are building a substantial trade. A considerable amount of building in this city as well as in various points in the county, is reported by them, and old Klickitat will take on a new record in this line. The new town sites on the railroad are going to require considerable lumber, and the local mills will secured the greater percentage of the orders.
There is estimated over three billion feet of standing timber in Klickitat county, which someday will all be utilized. This should open up a great utility in the mill business, and this county will probably never have to depend upon the outside for lumber products if any conservation is made with out timber resources. The problem which has confronted the east, moving great lumbering industries to the west, will doubtless never trouble our local industries. A great abundance of standing timber is found in surrounding counties and all of excellent marketable values.