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The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., September 5, 1903, page 1
"Klickitat Intelligence"

ENROUTE TO TROUT LAKE

The ride from White Salmon to Trout Lake is an enjoyable one in the way of charming scenery. One leaves White Salmon at 7:30 in the morning, says a correspondent, that is if this stage gets off on time, and it generally does. The vehicles of the stage company are quite comfortable, and you are whisked off up the road at a good jog. There is always some good natured sparring for favorable seats, and the seats next to the driver become an object. The first mile of jostle forces the elbows into some system; feet become comfortably stowed and good fellowship asserts itself at once. Professional men become boys again; staid school-marms lose their severity and throw violent kisses at scare-crows in the neighboring fields and gardens; the driver cracks his whip and the horses seem to partake of the spirit of the fun. The kodak man is along and all pose for a group picture; and such a picture it is! A quarter of an inch of dust is over every face, except where it has lodged in the drifts by the side of the nose or at the ears. One tries to wash his face at a roadside brook, and all give him the ha-ha! For his face is no longer dust, it is mud. The falls of the White Salmon are worth seeing. They are almost 8 miles from White Salmon. The fall is not great, but there is something charming about the scene. A suggestion of power; of a nameless lapse of time and of time and of waste; one might study it for hours. Some day man will harness and use it. What industrial end will it serve? What then will be the development of the country? The timber, mostly fir and under growth of vine maple, is superb. One needs to see it to appreciate it - great, tall stately heroic trees, straight massive and lofty.

TO MOVE TROUT LAKE P.O. - Under date of August 29th we learn that the Trout Lake postoffice will soon be removed from its present location to the residence of C.W. Moore, one and one-half miles northeast. It is generally conceded that Mr. Moore has already been appointed, although he has not yet received the documents. The office is now located one and one half miles east of Trout Lake, and a new office has just been created at the lake, and is called Guler, after Christian Guler, who is postmaster and also hotel-keeper.