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 ing date of this office. The mine was named because of association with the place where the pot of gold was supposed to be. There has been a change of the county boundary in this locality, but it is not clear just how it affects the information recorded above.

, Douglas County. Calamut Lake is in the extreme northeast part of the county. The writer has been unable to secure definite information as to how it got its name, but it seems probable that it may have been an early form of Klamath, and may have been so called by emigrants. The form of spelling here used is that adopted by the USBGN.

, Douglas and Lane counties. These mountains are a westward spur of the Cascade Range and constitute the watershed between the Willamette and Umpqua rivers. Calapooya Mountains join the Cascade Range at Cowhorn Mountain with an elevation of 7666 feet in the northeast corner of Douglas County. The Indians of the Willamette Valley were of the Kalapooian family. Calapooya Mountains bear the name. See Lewis' Tribes of the Columbia Valley, page 178. The Calapooya Indians were indolent and peaceful, and not disposed to trade (ibid.) The name is given as Calapoosie by David Douglas in his journals, OHQ, volume VI, page 85; Col-lap-poh-yea-ass, by Alexander Ross, in Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon, pages 235, 236; Call-law-poh-yea-as, in his Fur Hunters of the Far West, volume I, page 108; Kala-pooyhas, in Townsend's Narrative, page 175; Calla-puya, by Wilkes. Lewis and Clark give Collapoewah; Parker's journal gives Calapooa; Lee and Frost Calapooyas. Calapooya is properly the name of a division of the Kalapooian family formerly living between the Willamette and Umpqua rivers. The USBGN, has adopted the spelling Calapooya. Calapooya River is a stream in Linn County, rising in the western slopes of the Cascade Range and joining the Willamette River at Albany. Calapooya Creek rises on the south slopes of Calapooya Mountains in Douglas County and flows through Oakland and joins the Umpqua River at Umpqua. The origin of the name of these streams is the same as that of Calapooya Mountains.

, Jefferson County. Calf Gulch is east of Ashwood, in the Donnybrook country, and is the veritable place where an event took place that gave Donnybrook its name. The general locality was once called Axhandle, and additional information will be found under that heading. The Bend Bulletin, April 20, 1943, says editorially: "... one of the community's names, Donnybrook, was derived from a little social affair in Calf gulch, where guns, as well as axe handles, were used, and one man, Tom Kinney, received a bullet wound." See also under and. Calf Gulch was named during the days of pioneer stockmen, but the compiler does not know the exact reason.

, Baker County. California Gulch, which is about ten miles airline southwest of Baker, drains south into Powder River. It is just a little west of the famous pioneer mining camp of Auburn. It was named in the eastern Oregon gold rush of the early '60s because of the presence of many California miners in that part of the diggings. Hiatt in his Thirty-one Years in Baker County has a good deal to say about the rivalry between the visitors from California, called Tarheads, and the Oregonians, dubbed Webfeet.

, Klamath County. The Southern Pacific Company formerly