The Dalles Weekly Chronicle, The Dalles, OR., August 16, 1907, page 1

CITY OF JOSLYN
North Bank Promoters Surveying For New Townsite

     The citizens of the north bank are all astir over the recent survey of the town site of Joslyn located one-half mile west of Bingen, according to the News-Letter.
     Surveyor J.L. Henderson, of Hood River, has been spending the greater part of the week in that section making the townsite survey for the owner. It is stated that Mr. Swan, of the Swan & Hammond Lumber company, is the sole owner of the property destined to become the metropolis of that territory.
     It has been rumored that the Northern Pacific is back of the movement creating the new city. At any rate, preparations are underway to install an electric light plant, water system and other substantial public utilities.
     The nearly surveyed city is approximately one-half mile in length and one-eighth mile in with, containing seventeen blocks and fractions. It is laid out parallel with the railroad which places it at an angle of sixty-one degrees. The business lots or 25x100, and alleys run through each block. The main avenue is 80 feet wide, and a road has been surveyed running south and intersecting the White Salmon road near the bluff. This thoroughfare will be called the Joslyn avenue.
     Hood River is greatly interested in the White Salmon country, and is anxious to see the greatest good accrued to the greatest number in the development of that territory. We together with the citizens on the north side of the river, shall watch with great interest the developments destined to take place with the advent of the north road, says the News Letter.

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