The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., September 4, 1914, page 1

NEW RAILROAD TO BE BUILT TO GLENWOOD
Dorr Correspondent Gives News From Authoritative Source - Incorporation Papers for the Trout Lake-Glenwood and Columbia River Railroad to be Filed Soon - Other Dorr News.

     Incorporation papers will be filed shortly for a railroad to be known as the Trout Lake, Glenwood & Columbia River R.R.. It is expected that cars will be running on the first few miles of road before snow flies. The object of the road is to follow the shortest and most feasible route from the rich lumbering and farming belts of Northern Klickitat, through the fruit district of Snowden and Dorr to White Salmon along the route of the abandoned Mt. Adams Ry., or down to the mouth of Major Creek. The road is expected to prove profitable from the start, hauling logs to the Major Creek Lumber Co.'s mill. This road will be owned, or at least controlled, locally, and on account of having its terminals directly on the main line of the S.P. & S. with barge connection to the O.W. R. & N. will probably be able to make lower rates to the Columbia river and points in Oregon and elsewhere than a road now under construction from the Goldendale branch, which would have to pay a S.P. & S. tariff to the Columbia river. This information comes as authoritative and has not yet reached the ears of the city reporters, so that the Enterprise reporter claims a scoop as this is the first official information of the proposed road. It is said that rails, cars, locomotive and other equipment have already been contacted for, and will be shipped during September.

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