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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., June 19, 1914, page 1

TRIP THROUGH WESTERN KLICKITAT REVEALS MUCH DEVELOPMENT EVERYWHERE
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C.L. Colburn Tells of Interesting Trip through the Trout Lake, Guler, Fairchance, Glenwood, and Camas Prairie Districts

Mr. Editor: -- I wish you could have taken a trip with me into the country last week. Some said to me: "you should be prepared to take subscriptions to The Enterprise, for it is really worthy of patronage."
Everybody seems alive to thou's interest; not withstanding the unusual frost, vegetation looks well. Beyond the McCracken ranch, and in the upper valleys the fern and such vegetation is somewhat wilted. From Husum several miles up the White Salmon River, the wild strawberries are ripe in profusion.
At the Fair View Ranch the Williams' are making some improvements by buildings. Their hay crop looks fine.
Arnold Anrig has the best Hewed log house that a broad-ax can make. He is going into alfalfa more than his neighbors beyond. There is yet some of last year's hay crop for sale in this valley.
C.W. Moore has added considerable to his house. Wm. Coate was clearing more land to raise more hay to feed more cattle to make more money to buy more land.
Mr. Reynolds, proprietor Guler Hotel showed me 120 acres of clover seeded last year that stands thirty inches high, as thick as can be and just commencing to bloom. Mr. Reynolds is farming this for another man, and says it will net him $25 per acre. That is interest on $250.
A.B. Rosenteil the Blacksmith is also an expert concrete man. He is making some of the finest concrete bricks for building chimneys.
Mrs. Billings of the "Mt. Brook Inn" is a very live business woman. Their hotel is a small part of their business. They have a barn full of last years hay, a lot full of calves, a pasture full of pigs, and a rented pasture full of cows. They have their own thresher and grinder. Ground wheat and oats and clover pasture and milk which makes a combination that puts a very fancy curl in the pigs tails.
Claus Pearson seems even happier since marriage than before. That shows that one can find argument on both sides of the question "Pursuit VS Possession." He is busy consolidating the two stores. He worked for us more than a year and we got every cent that was coming to us. His customers will get everything coming to them in he should own all the stores in the state.
Between Trout Lake and Camas Prairie I spent a little time with Mr. Taggart and his goats of which he has over one hundred. The little kids will run to him and rear up on him with a pleading look, and he picks them up and carries them with as much satisfaction to then as though they were pet lap dogs. But when it comes to slaughtering them for market, it takes all the courage the man has.
At Glenwood I met our towns people. Mrs. Gearhart and Ross and Dr. Clay enjoying the ozone of the Cascades. I'll not tell you what impressed me most when I met Ross, but you'll know when you see him.
I drove in from Glenwood after 3 o'clock and could say hello to acquaintance on the wing only.
The cord wood in the valley is even attractive. I saw many ricks that rowed two ways like a fancy packed box of apples.