The Dalles Optimist, The Dalles, OR., March 13, 1936, page 1

BUY TOWNSITE ACROSS RIVER
Dalles and Goldendale Groups See Future
300 ACRES SKIRT COLUMBIA
Port Is Planned Provided Private Parties Don’t Build Terminal

     Development of a townsite and port at Northdalles is projected by the Northdalles Company, Incorporated, organization of which was completed in a meeting last Wednesday evening.  The company, whose personnel includes groups from both The Dalles and Goldendale, has acquired a tract of 300 acres immediately adjacent to the Northdalles station, part of it being acquired from the Curtiss estate and the remainder from the J.T. Rorick estate.
     Incorporators of the company include Dr. Thomson Coberth, Charles T. Smith and L.A. Duncan, all of The Dalles, and John R. McEwen, Zola O. Brooks, E.C. Trost and A.T. Byars of Goldendale, and Tom Norby of Bingen.
     The townsite is situated on both sides of the present county road running from the ferry landing to the North Bank highway.  On the west of the road it includes all of that tract situated between the railroad and the airport, with a tract of approximately the same size situated east of the road.  It is reported that the waterfront property adjoining the tract is now under option to parties who propose a port development.  If that project should not materialize, however, incorporators of the townsite state that they will organize a port district and install their own port facilities.