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The Hood River News Letter, Hood River, OR., August 10, 1907, page 1

NEW CITY PLATTED ON NORTH SIDE OF RIVER
Bingen and White Salmon Greatly Surprised at Jim Hill's Move to Create New Town.
It's High Time for Both Towns to Hurry.

The citizens of the North Bank all astir over the recent survey of the townsite of Joslyn located one-half mile west of Bingen.
Surveyor J.L. Henderson, of Hood River, has been spending the greater part of the week in this section in 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 this territory.
It has been rumored that the North 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 newly surveyed city is approximately one-half mile in length and one-eighth mile in width, containing 17 blocks and fractions. It is laid out parallel with the railroad which places it at an angle of 61 degrees. The business lots are 25x100 feet, 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 Bluffs. This thoroughfare will be called the Joslyn avenue.
Hood River is greatly interested in the White Salmon country, and we are anxious to see the greatest good accruing 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 bank road.