The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., July 23, 1926, page 1

WISHRAM MOVED EIGHT MILES TO THE EASTWARD JULY 20

     The location of an historical spot, endeared to Oregon and Washington pioneers, through Indian legends and made famous in the works of great authors, has been moved 8 miles east on the Columbia river, as stated in the Agri. recently, to please the whims of a great corporation.  This new location was formerly known as a Fallbridge -- now Wishram.
     So on Tuesday of this week a great gathering of Washington and Oregon parties assembled, and dedicated a monument to the new name, Wishram, and Fallbridge is no more!
     Our correspondent at Fallbridge, Wishram henceforth, writes to the Agri.: Months ago the Great Northern railroad, following its plan to name its stations, so far as possible, after the old Indian titles, struck Fallbridge from its maps and substituted Wishram, the native name for a point of land situated at the narrows of the Columbia about four miles above The Dalles and eight miles west of Fallbridge.
     Now come the pioneers with the plaint that a wrong has been done.  The name Wishram, or, Nech-loi-deth, was interpreted in the Yakima tongue, as stationary-people-who-never-move; significant of painted figures and pictographs on the rocks at this point.  The word Wishram was probably first written by Washington Irving in his “Astoria” and was a misspelling of the Indian pronunciation Wish-cum.
     With the name applicable only to this particular spot, obviously, the pioneers argue, it could not rightfully be moved away and applied to another location merely because a train stops there.  When the Great Northern dedicates its monument at “Wishram” late this month for the benefit of the cross-continent tour of the eastern group making up the Columbia Historical expedition, the old-timers who have revered the painted rocks at Wishram for decades will sadly watch the official fading away of the old name.