The Skamania County Pioneer, Stevenson, WA., August 22, 1907, page 5

THREE COLUMBIA RIVER TOWNS

     The town of Carson is located in the Wind river valley and has a population of about 300.  It has two stores, a meat market, cigar store, three hotels and six saloons.  It has a pretty valley and the St. Martin and Mineral Hot Springs to back it.
     Stevenson is a town on the Columbia River with about 300 inhabitants.  It has two general merchandise stores, two ice cream and cigar stores, blacksmith shop, newspaper and four saloons.  It is the county seat of Skamania county.
     White Salmon is a town of about 500 people located on a bluff over-looking the Columbia river.  It has four general merchandise stores, one drug store, one feed and grocery store, one hardware store, two cigar stores, one furnishing goods and clothing store, one music and notion store, two blacksmith shops, three hotels, one opera house, one large skating rink, two banks, one newspaper and no saloons.  It has the matchless White Salmon Valley to back it. -- White Salmon Enterprise.
     Stevenson has three hotels, one restaurant, two general merchandise stores, two candy and cigar stores, one jewelry and notion store, one drug store, two bakeries, one butcher shop, one church, one opera house, four saloons, one livery stable, one blacksmith shop, one barber shop, four-room school house, court house and newspaper.  We will soon have an up-to-date hospital and a good, sound bank.  We have five sawmills near town and the largest belt of timber tributary to any one town on the north bank railroad.
     One more  thing one more thing we will have, which White Salmon can never have, and that is a railroad track and a depot in the center of town.
     Stevenson has a population of about 400 people and new buildings are being erected daily.  Our town is on the banks of the majestic Columbia and we do not have to walk a mile to reach the river.  We will have a good fruit country when the timber is cleared and we know we have one of the most desirable spots on or near the new Portland & Seattle railroad.  The Stevenson Hot Springs will bring a large number of people here next summer to bathe in its mineral water.  Outside people are coming here daily and investing in town and farm property and, as one man remarked a week ago, “we have the best location on the Columbia River.” Come to Stevenson, where the property will increase in price when the railroad is completed.