The Skamania County Pioneer, Stevenson, WA., June __, 1926, page 1

UNDERWOOD BIG SHIPPING POINT

     Details of the lumbering and fruit shipments from Underwood reached us too late last week to include in the general story of the county.  However, the Underwood people have no reason to complain as they will rank at the top of outgoing shipments for the year.
     The average monthly shipments from that part of the county are about seventy-five cars and the average wood shipments will run about five.  Besides there are some poles and posts going out in connection with the lumber shipments.
     Last year there were shipped from Underwood 304 cars of apples and 61 car loads of pears.  Our correspondent there tells us that this year indications point to at least doubling the fruit output and if the prices hold up the money will have to come in by freight.  The strawberry and other farm produce crops are increasing each year as land is cleared and the market for fruit products increases.
     Another item that is making Underwood itself known to the shipping and business world is the cold storage and ice plant of the Underwood Fruit & Warehouse company that was completed this spring is now in operation.  This plant will manufacture ice for all the fruit cars from Underwood, Bingen, White Salmon, Lyle, and the fruit from the upper portion of the White Salmon River which is increasing as the years roll by.  This plant also makes and ships about seven tons of ice each day and delivers ice under contract to the S.P. & S. railway.
     The Broughton Lumber company and the Hicks Lumber company are the heaviest shippers of lumber from that section while A.G. Belsheim of Trout Lake is also a heavy shipper.  Since the completion of the new road to the Trout Lake country several new mills have begun operation and this lumber will be shipped from the Underwood station.
     For some time the people of Underwood have been working for a new station and it seems that they have succeeded in getting it as we are advised from very reliable sources that the S.P. & S. railroad will begin building a new station there this fall probably early enough to accommodate the business in connection with the fall fruit harvest.  This will be a great convenience to that part of the county as a lack of such a building has hampered the conducting of business and the station surely needs renewing.