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The Hood River Glacier, Hood River, OR., November 11, 1909, page 5
"Underwood"

The "railroad up the White Salmon" is the chief topic from Underwood to Trout Lake these days, and things certainly look very encouraging. Two right-of-way men are in the field at Underwood, and we understand that they are arranging for a right-of-way for a flume to bring water to the lower country as well as for a railroad, realizing that it will be to their interests to develop all the county along the line of the road as rapidly as possible! The "Evening Telegram" under the date of November 1, has to say about it:
"This hereto quiet valley is agog over the probable advent of a railroad. For the past month a surveying crew has been running a preliminary survey from Underwood, at the mouth of the White Salmon River to Trout Lake, following the river all the way to the Trout Lake Valley proper. Then the surveyors kept to the south of the valley, running their survey directly northwest, calling up to Trout Creek as far as Guler. An enthusiastic mass meeting was held at the school house at Trout Lake Saturday evening, when the representative citizens and property holders of the valley were present to meet the chief engineer, Milton L. Baldy, of Spokane when he presented the matter of building a railroad from Underwood to this place. The citizens of this section are anxious for the coming of the iron horse, and express themselves willing to do all they could. A committee composed of the following men was appointed by Chairman William Coate: Chris Guler, Hermann Thode, William Coate, O.J. Smith. This committee will solicit right of way for the proposed road, and the engineer stated at the meeting, that if no further difficulties presented themselves, a construction would begin in 60 days."