The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., January 4, 1924, page 1

GRANDALLES TO GROW

     Grandalles promises to become something more than a North Bank railroad station, the indications being that it will be a prosperous little city within the next few years.  The L.W. Curtiss ranch, which is adjacent to the depot on the north bank of the Columbia, opposite this city, was sold late Saturday afternoon to the Citizens Bank & Trust company of Seattle, the banking house paying $100,000 for 6040 acres of practically unimproved land.  The deal was handled by W.E. Mills who was presented with a $5000 check for selling the property.  The former owner received $30,000 in cash Saturday, excepting a mortgage for the balance due.
     The Curtiss ranch will be cut up into five-acre and ten-acre tracts and placed on the market and a town site will be placed this week.
     The Seattle company is making plans to irrigate the lands with water piped from the Klickitat river and when this is done the soil there will be as productive as that of any other locality in this section of the country.  -- The Dalles Weekly Chronicle.