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The Dalles Weekly Chronicle, The Dalles, OR., April 19, 1907, page 3

TOWN OF JOSLYN
Town of Bingen Many Be Supplanted by New Village

There are many Dalles people who were formerly acquainted with E.S. Joslyn who will be glad to know that there is a move on foot to perpetuate his memory by building a town named after him at a site near Bingen. The Oregonian has this to say:
"Mr. Swan recently bought a large part of the old E.S. Joslyn donation land claim near Bingen from Judge Byrkett, the remainder of the tract, which consists of 318 acres, being sold to the North Bend Railroad company as right of way. Mr. Swan has large timber interests near Bingen, and among the improvements contemplated by him on the new townsite, which will be named Joslyn, in honor of the old pioneer, are a large box factory, a fine hotel for tourists and summer borders, and numerous other houses, for rent or for sale. Mr. Swan already has three sawmills in operation making lumber with which to complete his several building projects. The box factory when equipped will consume a great deal of the output of the mills.
"Efforts will be made to have the post office, named Bingen by some Germans who first settled there, changed to Joslyn, and it is thought the railroad officials will so name the station.
"Judge Byrkett grew reminiscent as he talked yesterday and told how E.S. Joslyn, the pioneer of the place, was driven off his ranch in the Indian war of 1855 and 1856 by the savages, barely escaping to the Oregon side alive. The marauders killed a boy who was working for him at the time and burned the house and barns, even wantonly destroying many of his cattle. Later the government build a fort on Joslyn claim, which the troops occupied for three years, until the Indians scare had passed. Mr. Joslyn put in a claim of $1,500 against the government, and a singular coincidence is remarked in the fact that on the day of Mr. Joslyn's death in Los Angeles, which occurred about a year ago, there came to his address a certificate from the government to pay the amount of his claim.
"The site of the new town of Joslyn is sixty-six miles east of Portland on the survey on the north bank railroad.