The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., August 29, 1903, page 1
"Klickitat Intelligence"

     THE TOWN OF CLEVELAND - A correspondent of a Portland journal, recently in eastern Klickitat, speaks of the town of Cleveland as follows: This is a small but good business town located at the edge of the pine timber belt extending with more or less breaks from this point, on Wood Gulch, in section 30, township 6 north, range 20 east, up to the Simcoe reservation, a few miles to the north. At Cleveland Wood Gulch is flattened out into a slight depression, but on its course southward to the Columbia opposite Arlington, greatly deepens its way, passing through fine farming districts on either side for 12 or 15 miles, then for the next 8 or 10 miles forming a deep canyon through the Columbia river mountains. Cleveland supports a good flouring mill that makes a No. 1 flour, much of the product being shipped to Portland by way of Arlington, to which it is 22 miles, mostly downgrade, enabling freighters to haul a large loads. Most of the wheat marketed from this part of the country is also hauled to Arlington with free ferriage to wheat haulers. There are several very prosperous business houses in Cleveland. Will G. Faulkner is the proprietor of a large hardware establishment and is flourishing. Mr. Faulkner has for several years held the office of United States land commissioner of Klickitat county, and is also justice of the peace for his precinct. Since the first of the year he says there has been a great rush to obtain homesteads in the Horse Heaven country. During the whole of last year only 100 filings for homesteaders were made before him, the first quarter of 1903 showed 130 filings already made. Another prosperous firm is that of Van Nostern brothers, in the general merchandise business in Cleveland. They settled in Klickitat county 20 years ago and for several years before going into business in Cleveland were stockraising and they still own 60 to 70 head of range horses.

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