The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., June 16, 1939, page 9

UNDERWOOD HEIGHTS DRIVE REVEALS SCENIC BEAUTY
Heights Panorama Unequalled. Another Spot Rivals Crater Lake
NEW CLEARINGS SEEN
Mill A Cantonment Completed. Recreation Spots Crowded Sunday

     The drive over the Underwood Heights road is a beautiful one, and was especially so last Sunday.  The panorama from the road on the Heights is particularly awe-inspiring as one looks over the Columbia river from the 700 foot elevation, sees the Hood River valley extending to snow-capped Mt. Hood, and up and down the river for miles.
     One noticeable improvement noted was the new landscaping effect and lawn around the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Card.  The place has undergone extensive improvements during the last two years and the artistic landscaping makes a beautiful spot from which the Cards overlook the Columbia, Hood River valley and Mount Hood.
     Since the building of the Underwood cut-off along the Columbia river, few people now travel the Heights road, but it's worth anybody's time to make the trip again.  Just west of the Cummins ranch, from the almost dizzy heights, the road passes a spot that compares with the famous Crater lake over in Southern Oregon.  Almost a thousand feet down from the road is the Columbia.  From that spot it looks like a lake and rivals Crater Lake for scenery.
     In that section, of interest to many can now be seen the huge clearing development underway on the Cummins and Dieterich Farms.  A large bull-dozer, equipped with a blade and teeth, is pulling out huge fir trees, stumps and undergrowth, as well as some orchard trees.  The new acreage will provide new alfalfa fields.
     A six acre tract on the Elder W. Dieterich farm, densely covered with large stumps and brush which formerly cost $125 to $200 per acre to clear, has recently been cleared for $46.45 per acre.
     To clear the six acre tract it cost Mr. Dieterich $176.66 for the use of the bull-dozer, $46.25 for the nine boxes of powder to crack the stumps, and $54.88 for labor to prepare the land for seeding a crop of alfalfa.
     As proof of the low cost of clearing land with a bull-dozer, County Agent Gillard declared that on a 4.6 acre tract of dense growth of brush and large stumps on the same farm, the estimated cost of clearing land was $41.00 per acre.  In another instance, a three-acre tract with scattered large stumps and lightly covered with brush, the land clearing cost $23.00 per acre preparatory to seeding alfalfa.