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The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., November 11, 1932, page 4

NORTH DALLES IS A GOOD PLACE
(For The Agri.)

North Dalles, or, as it was formerly known, Grand Dalles, is most fortunately situated. It is located in Klickitat county, just across the river from The Dalles. If our almost pathetic confidence that times will return to what they were, is not misplaced, North Dalles will be the site of one of the most important aviation fields in the northwestern part of the United States. Already the government has established a considerable station there, including among other things, a teletype station, one of five in the state of Washington, and a radio range, one of three in the state. North Dalles is at the entrance of the famous and economically advantageous Columbia River gorge through the Cascade mountains, an all-year-round air route. As the long narrow gorge does not offer many inviting emergency landings, one may see what this means to aviation. This is the only east-west route north of California which does not hold the peril of flying over high, jagged mountains.
But North Dalles is notable for reasons other than being a place to get away from by air, by motor, and by train. There is a two-year-old development of gardens and orchards, where the people enjoy irrigation with water pumped from the Columbia at a rate cheaper than almost any in the state. The growers are well satisfied and claim that under normal economic conditions, so early and plentiful are the yields, their land would have been paid for in this two-year period. For the garden tracts, known as the North Dalles tracts, are early. They are early as Kennewick and Southern Oregon, and occasionally early as the first California shipments; and the garden produce reaches the market fresher than that from the other places named, being less than 100 miles from Portland.
The North Bank highway, scenic, straight, wide, extends from Vancouver almost to North Dalles; from North Dalles eastward the road continues. That explains why, just before our recent primaries when the writer asked the residents of that community whom they were supporting as the party's nominee for governor, they reluctantly admitted that it was probably the present governor. Let it be understood, in all fairness to these people, that they were a bit shame-faced in their admission. Their defense of their unprecedented position was: "We are afraid anyone else might interfere with the governors road program."
Thus was it proved that our present governor knew how to build a machine and how to bring pressure to bear upon voters!
That four mile link, yet uncompleted between North Dalles and Lyle, will be finished whoever is the next governor. In all probability contracts will be let in the next few months, as the money is now available.