The Skamania County Pioneer, Stevenson, WA., August 28, 1925, page 1

NEW FRUIT PLANT AT UNDERWOOD

     Roy Anthony, manager of the Underwood Fruit and Warehouse company of Underwood, was in the county capital the latter part of last week attending to business matters in connection with marketing next year’s fruit crop.
     Mr. Anthony says the new $25,000 warehouse is now completed and that the first fruit has been put through the new house.
     The orchardists of Underwood who are interested in the new house will have a large crop of apples and pears and the completion of the new building will be a big help and making a profit in the fruit.
     The house has a storage capacity of 80,000 boxes of fruit and in a big season or during a rush can almost double that by proper handling. Gravenstein apples and Bartlett pears are now being shipped from the Underwood district and both the yield and the price is good, it is reported.
     The cold storage plant and the ice making machinery -- of which the latter will be the largest in the Mid-Columbia district -- will be installed in January and will deliver under contract to the S.P. & S. Railroad Company two million pounds of ice a year.  The railroad will use the ice in its dining service and to ice its cars in the shipping of fruits, meats and other perishable goods.
     Mr. Anthony says the fruit crop in the Underwood district is fully as good as was anticipated last spring.