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The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., August 29, 1903, page 4
"Klickitat Intelligence"

THE TROUT LAKE NEIGHBORHOOD - The village of Trout Lake is a thriving one. Two stores carry a stock of general merchandise - the Chapman Bros., long established, and Messrs. Wolfard & Smith, the new men in the field here. Both do a good business. Mr. Smith very kindly took your correspondent over to the Townsend creamery, which has so completely divested the milk output of this splendid dairy section as to make butter a scarce article. The business has been running about three months, and up to this time 19 farmers are contributing their milk output to the creamery. Most of these farmers buy their butter, selling all their milk. The cheese factory is a commodious, well arranged building, light and airy. We found the cheese room full of as fine a product as any creamery could turn out. Some 4,000 pounds of milk are used daily by the Townsend Creamery Company, who charge the farmers 2 cents a pound for making and marketing, leaving the farmer a net profit of 28½ per pound. Two hundred cows now supply the milk. But herds are yet small, the largest single dairy herd in milking being 33 cows. But this is only the beginning of a growing business with a great future. The herds are in fine condition. The man in charge of the factory is a master at the business, and the cheese product commands the very highest market price. A whole community has a prosperous air. New buildings dot the plain and the farmers are well-to-do. The climate is good; water - pure and sweet and clear as crystal - is plentiful, and this is the home of the clover.