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The Hood River Glacier, Hood River, OR., August 2, 1906, page 4
"Bingen"

Old residents of Bingen, and there are few older anywhere in this neighborhood, say that this is the first time in their remembrance that two seasons have passed when there has been no high water. Work on the long level stretch of the north bank railroad through Bingen is progressing rapidly. When completed this will be one of the best pieces of track to be found anywhere in the country. Extending sixteen miles straight away with a grade that will be on the only two-tenths of one percent. Through Bingen the new road bought 4,500 feet of right of way 300 feet wide. Of this the railroad will lay side tracks and erect a station. With a natural townsite surrounding the railroad it is inevitable that a town of no mean proportions will spring up at this point. In fact it is said by those who know, that there is no spot on the line of the new road that is so well adapted to the building of the town. With this in view, it is very evident why A.R. Upright, who bought considerable of the right of way for the new road in this neighborhood, purchased the store property of F.L. Thomas. The purchase included three lots alongside the store, which are now worth $300 apiece. Mr. Upright paid $1,700 for the property.
The saying that "everything comes to him who waits" is exemplified in the life of Theo. Suksdorf, of Bingen. The Suksdorf family landed in Bingen many years ago, what was known as White Salmon then, but is now named after the far famed town in song and story of the "Bingen on the Rhine." The Suksdorf family was not the only one of the thrifty Germans who landed at this place as White Salmon landing was known long before the now famous fruit town of Hood River was in existence. It was at this point that the Lages, Dethmans and other hardy German pioneers, who had helped so much to develop various sections of this country, landed.