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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., March 2, 1911, page 1

CO. DIVISION TO DATE

The senate bill for the creation of the county of White Salmon has been placed by the committee on counties on the general senate file, and up to closing this form has not been posted on the senate calendar. We understand the vigorous opposition made before the committee has had its hearing, and a thorough investigation will be made before the bill is passed by the senate. Senator John E. Chappell is supporting the measure, and lobbyists sent to Olympia from Goldendale inform us that a great portion of the senators are pledged to support this bell of his, as he has lent his support on measures introduced by other senators. A telegram in answer to a telegram asking if he was supporting the bill was received the latter part of last week by L.C. Moore, the local jeweler, which is as follows, and speaks for itself:
"Majority of the west end people want county division and am supporting same."
At a recent meeting of the division mater, held in this city, parties in Olympia representing the interests of the people of this vicinity and those opposed to the county division in the west end, said that Senator Chappell made a personal appeal to the senate for the passage of this bill, in which he said it would be the only bill he would introduce, and asked their assistance. The measure is positively ruinous as it now reads, the following description taken from the bill being amended so that the new county line would run directly on the township line, this side of the Klickitat river, and the southern boundary is taking in the new town of Clarke, thereby taking the larger portion of the railroad taxable property, as well as including the valuable power sites on the Klickitat; another object being that the people residing in the eastern part of their county would have as much or more difficulty in reaching White Salmon as any now living in the remotest portion of Klickitat to reach the present county seat. A part of the bill originally prepared follows:
Section 1. All of that portion of Klickitat county and State of Washington described as follows: Beginning at a point mid channel of the Columbia river opposite the mouth of the White Salmon river as far north as southern boundary of township four north, of range ten east of Willamette meridian; thence due west on said township to range nine east of Willamette meridian; thence north following said range line to its point of intersection with the north line of township numbered six north; thence east along said north boundaries of said townships numbered six north until said line intersects the range between range thirteenth east and range fourteen east of Willamette meridian; thence south along said range line to the middle line of the Columbia river; thence down the Columbia river mid-channel to the point of beginning, which said described territory shall constitute the county of White Salmon.
Section 2. The county of White Salmon shall assume and pay to the county of Klickitat its proportion of the bonded and warrant indebtedness of Klickitat county, in the proportions that the assessed valuation of that part of White Salmon county lying within the present boundaries of Klickitat county. The adjustment of said indebtedness shall be based on the assessment for the year 1910: Provided, That in the accounting between the said counties neither county shall be charged with any debt or liability incurred in the purchase of any county property or the purchase of any county building which shall fall within or be retained by the other county.
Section 3. The county seat of said county is hereby located at the town of White Salmon and shall there remain until the same shall be removed in accordance with the provisions of law.
Section 4. Until otherwise classified said county of White Salmon is hereby designated as belonging to the twenty-third class.
Section 5. A.P. Gordon, Leo F. Brune and John G. Wyers, all being residents of the herein proposed county of White Salmon, shall be the first board of county commissioners of said White Salmon county, and they shall hold office until the second Monday in January, 1913, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and shall meet at the county seat of said White Salmon county within ten days after this act shall take effect and shall qualify as such county commissioners by filing their oath of office with the judge of the superior court, who shall approve their bonds in the manner provided by law: Provided, however, that if any of the above named commissioners shall fail to qualify within the time specified, that the governor shall appoint a bona fide resident and qualified elector of said White Salmon county to fill the vacancy.
Section 7. In all townships, precincts, school and road districts which retain their old boundaries the present officers thereof shall retain their respective offices in and for such new county until their respective term of office shall expire, or until their successors are elected and qualified, and shall give bonds to White Salmon county in the same amount and in the same manner as had previously been given to the original county.
Section 9. Until otherwise provided by. Said county Shelby and hereby is attached to the district composed of pellets, Clark, Skamania and Klickitat for a judicial purposes.
Section 11. For the purpose of representation in the legislature until otherwise provided by law the county of White Salmon shall be included in the sixteenth senatorial district, and shall be included in the twenty-first representative district.
Section 12. Until the county of White Salmon is organized by the appointment and qualification of its officers, the jurisdiction of the present officers of Klickitat county shall remain in force and effect in those portions of the territory constituting the said county of White Salmon.