The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., January 13, 1938, page 5

RAILROAD RIGHTS ALONG BONNEVILLE DAM POOL FIXED

     For the right to inundate and overflow a 51.5 mile section of the north bank of the Columbia river, the United States paid the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railroad company $1,124,718 according to an indenture release filed with the Klickitat county auditor here last week, by the Central Hanover Bank and Trust company, of New York, mortgagee of the S. P. & S. line.
     The indenture release was one of a number of legal instruments flied by railroad officials relating to their right of way along the north bank of the now forming Bonneville dam pool. The release of right of way rights by the railroad to the government include all that shore land the surface of which is below the 800,000 cubic feet per second controlled backwater curve of the Columbia. The railroad right of way in question extends from Bonneville dam in Skamania county eastward to the mouth of the Klickitat river in Klickitat county.

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