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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., August 10, 1911, page 1

COMPANY WILL MAKE THE CHANGE IN DAM SITE
(Special to The Sentinel)

The changes made necessary by the present litigation in the Superior Court for Klickitat County, Judge McKenney presiding, concerning the Klickitat Water power at this place, have been made by the Northwestern Electric Company. This is the selection of a dam site outside the limits of the Emma Dave land, instead of upon it, the court finding that she deeded a right of way and not a dam site, in connection with her full deed of the river and all riparian rights. Manager B.C. Condit of the Northwestern, and Engineer Walsh of Newell, Gossett & Walsh of Portland who have the entire engineering contract for the development, accompanied by the Seattle contractors who have the contract for the dam, today completed selection another site satisfactory to all concerned, so that the terms of the contract and plans for this part of the power development are not materially changed. The cost is about $100,000. This site is 1000 feet up river from the former one and is the one originally selected by George S. Cansfield and engineer F.C. Kelsey, and recently re-surveyed by engineer A.Z. Richards of Salt Lake City. The location is declared to be an ideal one and it will require a dam 5 feet lower than that on the Dave land, to produce the same results, namely development of about 8,000 horsepower.
Work is in progress on the new ground for the test pits and cuts, preliminary to immediate construction of the dam. Engineers and contractors have also selected the gravel supply for the concrete work which amounts to 7,000 cubic yards, which is to come from the pits at Avery station near Fallbridge. It will be loaded on trains there by steam shovels and taken direct to the work, on the Goldendale branch of the S.P. & S. two miles from Lyle. Otherwise it would have been taken from the vast gravel pits at Lyle. But teams enough were not available at Lyle to handle the amount necessary in the short time required. The Lyle Trading Company are to furnish 50,000 feet of lumber for the forms for the concrete work from their local mill near Lyle.