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The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., March 23, 1912, page 7
"Goldendale And Near-by Points"

County division's first gun for the season was fired at White Salmon, following the Good Roads meeting last Tuesday. At the smoker held in the evening at the Woodmen hall, the county division was discussed by nearly all the delegates. Upon motion of W.W. Swan, William Coate was elected chairman, and F.G. Dunnicliff was elected secretary.
Attorney J.L. Sutherland made the first talk on the subject, outlining the work done and the mistakes by a former committee. He advised coming to an understanding with Goldendale as to a boundary line, and leave the naming of the county, election of all officers, etc., to a vote of the people. Mr. C.L. Colburn agreed mainly with Mr. Sutherland's views. W.C. Allaway favored leaving the Klickitat river in the old county and making Major creek the boundary.
William Coate of Trout Lake; F.E. Flynn of White Salmon; C.W. Moore, of Trout Lake; Wm. Olson, of Husum, and Theodore Suksdorf, of Bingen, all spoke encouragingly of county division and leaving the entire matter to a vote of the people.
Finally, to get the matter squarely before the meeting, A.R. Hayes, of White Salmon, introduced the following motion; each precinct west of the line between ranges 13 and 14, select a delegate to act on a committee to be organized for the purpose of taking such steps as may be necessary for securing the county division, and the secretary receive notices of selection of delegates and report them. The motion was carried.
Another motion was introduced and carried, as follows: That a member from each voting precinct be appointed by the chairman to constitute a committee to supervise the selection of delegates to constitute the regular county division committee. The chairman appointed the following: Charles Spencer, of White Salmon; E.E. Bartholomew, Glenwood; D.W. Baxter, Major Creek; W. Scott Coe, Snowden; D.W. Coate, Trout Lake, Wm. Olson, Husum; A.J. Henderson, Bingen; Wm. Morginson, Appleton; Herbert Williams, Fruit Valley; D. Ewing, Lyle; A.E. Peck, Laurel; W.S. Bates, Bristol.