The Dalles Optimist, The Dalles, OR., October 13, 1933, page 4

A NEW CITY SPROUTS

     Hope springs eternal in the human breast, witnessed the rush of optimists to found a new city on the north bank of the Columbia at the Bonneville dam.  Already, according to reports, two newspapers are on the ground to compete for the privilege of serving the -- in the future -- industrial metropolis.  Real estate promoters quick and canny to capitalize on the gambling spirit of the hopeful human, have bought a 1,000-acre tract, platted it into lots, painted pretty pictures of rose-covered cottages, imposing boulevards and humming factories.  Ambitious persons, who have long sought the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, are responding to the lure and flocking and as they did to the gold diggings of ‘49.
     Fifty miles upstream from the dam site, The Dalles is appraising its own future and the effect of dam construction and the resulting creation of slack water navigation to this city.  Immediate benefits cannot be expected here, except insofar as the mammoth project will radiate a better business feeling through the northwest.  But The Dalles can rest secure in the conviction that it will benefit immensely from the resultant extension of deep water navigation to this point.  This will not come in a day, nor a month; it will not partake of the boom features now found that the new Bonneville city, but it will be substantial and continuing because founded on factors of cheap power and low-cost transportation which are the basis of assured and permanent prosperity.