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about ten miles south of Astoria. It was named for a local family. The office was established in August, 1903, with Catherine Quinn postmaster. Casey office operated until August, 1911, when it was closed out to Astoria.

CASON CANYON, Gilliam County. Cason Canyon is southwest of Condon. It was named for Pemberton F. Cason, a nearby resident. The next canyon to the east, Pemberton Canyon, bears Cason's first name. See under PEMBERTON CANYON. For biography, see History of Central Oregon, page 618.

CASTLE CREEK, Jackson and Klamath counties. The various branches of Castle Creek rise on the west slope of the rim of Crater Lake, and Castle Creek itself flows into Rogue River. It was named Castle Creek because of the many spires and pinnacles in the canyon.

CASTLE ROCK, Clatsop County. Castle Rock stands in the Pacific Ocean about a mile northwest of Arch Cape and has an elevation of 157 feet. It has upward projections that simulate battlements with some degree of fidelity and as a whole looks not unlike a castle. The name is apposite.

CASTLE Rock, Morrow County. It does not seem to have taken much imagination on the part of early settlers to build rock castles in the air, for there are Castle rocks in most of the counties of the state, the one about a mile west of the station of that name in Morrow County being probably the best known. It is a low bluff, but is said actually to resemble a castle from the river. It is not known when this rock was first named. The railroad company has dropped the second word of the name for the station, as a matter of simplification.

CATCHING CREEK, Coos County. Catching Creek is an important stream tributary to South Fork Coquille River. It was named for Ephriam C. Catching, an early settler in the vicinity of Myrtle Point. Other geographic features in Coos County are also named for E. C. Catching or for his family.

CATHEDRAL Ridge, Hood River County. This ridge is one of the northwest spurs from Mount Hood and it is notable for the impressive cathedral-like spires along its summit. It was named in 1922 by a party of explorers from Hood River, led by C. Edward Graves, who was living in Arcata, California, in 1943. This party also named Eden Park, Wiyeast Basin and Vista Ridge.

CATHLAMET Bay, Clatsop County. Cathlamet Bay is on the south side of the Columbia River east of Tongue Point. Like many other Indian names, its meaning is hard to trace. Myron Eells identified the term with the Indian word Kalama, which is a town in Washington. On November 11, 1805, Lewis and Clark passed near the Indian village of Cathlamet, and referred to Calt-har-mar nation of Indians. Thwaites refers to this nation as an extinct Chinookan tribe. It was obviously a small unimportant group of natives, and there is a possibility that the tribe name was associated with the word calamet, meaning stone, indicating that the Indians lived in a stony place. The Indian village of Caltharmar was on the south bank of the Columbia River, possibly not far from the present site of Knappa. Thomas N. Strong of Portland is authority for the statement that after the visit of Lewis and Clark, the Caltharmar nation, much reduced by disease, crossed the Columbia River and settled near the present town of Cathlamet, Washi