The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., April 26, 1912, page 1

DAM SITE SELECTED
Northwestern Will Build Big Dam on White Salmon at Once

     After prospecting three sides at a cost of several thousand of dollars, the Northwestern Electric Co. has finally selected the site at the Cameron bridge at the back of the Kuhne orchards. A road will be laid out and built through the latter properties from the Trout Lake road and construction will be immediately be gone on a high dam estimated to cost about $100,000. So high a dam cannot be constructed at The Narrows, and it will be much wider, but sufficient head will be secured to give them ample power for all the purposes of the Company, one of which is the proposed lighting of Portland and another, power for a railroad in the event one is constructed. The building of this dam that will mean considerable freighting from the railway, a large share of it through this place.

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