The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., February 28, 1952, page 1

TRAILER TOWN AND NEW CITY NOW RISING AT DALLESPORT

     Everyday new families stop in Bingen and White Salmon to look in vain for a place to live.  Meanwhile a new city is rising on the barren rocks of Dallesport.  Already under construction is a 100 unit trailer camp, multiple dwellings, auto court, supermarket, restaurant, tavern and service station.
     A.E. Cook of Trailer Camps, Inc., indicates that this is the first of several such projects being rushed to provide housing and other services for workers on The Dalles dam.  Cement foundations are receiving the first of 204 housing units now being barged from the Guild's Lake project in Portland.

Drop in Bucket

     Present construction is only a drop in the bucket compared to a need which will pyramid for the next five years.  Four power contracts have been signed with the Klickitat County P.U.D. which is also studying the possibilities of supplying water to the area.  Additional housing projects now on the drawing boards include: 42 units, D. W. Lum of Portland; 20 units, George C. Clarke, Portland; and 12 units, G. L. Miller, also of Portland.
     Cook's development at the junction of the Evergreen highway and The Dalles bridge approach will be supplied by spring waters stored in a 50,000-gallon reservoir.  He will also lease trailer camp space to workers employed by the S. A. Healy Company, the initial dam contractor.

Modern City

     On display in the W.S. office of Larsen, real estate brokers, is a colored plot of the new city.  Many of the lots have already been sold.  More Goldendale than west-end investors recognize the potentialities of the land boom.  Prices increased 25% in one week.
     The commercial sites face on a traffic-less green, with ample loading space at the rear and spacious parking lots nearby.  Sites have been indicated for a theater and a hotel.  The residential drives all bear women's names.
     Long-established towns in the area wait for the blow to fall.  In The Dalles which expects to double its population an unfurnished shack now rents for $55 month.  Its schools and hospitals all are already bursting at the seams. “Hell’s Bells,” says a Federal officer. “Where are these people going to live?  The Dalles doesn't even have a site on which to build.”