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to be called "cayuses" because the Indians of that name were large breeders of the animals. The name formerly had only local use, but later spread over the Pacific Northwest. Cayuse in Umatilla County was formerly a stage station, and was at the foot of what was known as Meacham Hill. Cayuse post office was established October 29, 1867, with John S. White, first postmaster. There is a Cayuse Canyon opening onto Rock Creek northeast of Condon in Gilliam County. It was doubtless so named because cayuse ponies pastured there.

CAZADERO, Clackamas County. This is a station on the Estacada line of the Portland Electric Power Company, near which the Cazadero power plant of the company is located on the Clackamas River. For many years previous to the time the company made its additional development further up the river, Cazadero was the end of the interurban line. It was named by the original promoters of the line, and the word is Spanish, meaning a place for the pursuit of game. The name was doubtless suggested by Cazadero, California. Cecil, Morrow County. This is a railroad station and post office in the western part of Morrow County, at an elevation of 619 feet. It derived its name from the Cecil family, large land owners in the neighborhood, who gave land for the post office. Cedar CAMP, Marion County. Cedar Camp post office was established November 26, 1932, and operated until July 22, 1933. Mrs. Edith M. Filer was the only postmaster. This office was a little to the northeast of Hullt and in the same locality as the older Bridge Creek post office. Cedar camp was so known because there were several cedar shingle camps in the vicinity. Cedar Camp appears to be a name synonomous with the Bridge Creek locality. The compiler has been told that Cedar Creek is another name for Bridge Creek, but he cannot find any official sanction for the name Cedar Creek as applied to the stream. Cedar Mill, Washington County. This name was given by John Quincy Adams Young, who settled at the locality in 1862 and built a cabin. He ran a sawmill for a few years, then sold it to W. R. Everson. Young was the son of Dr. Elam Young, a well-known Oregon pioneer, who, with his family, came to Oregon from Ohio in 1847. Young was working in the Whitman sawmill at the time of the massacre on November 29, 1847, and escaped, but his son James was killed. The Young family arrived in Oregon City in 1848 and soon thereafter settled near the present site of Hillsboro. When J. Q. A. Young established Cedar Mill, he specialized in the cutting of cedar siding, shingles, shakes and other products, most of which were used in buildings in the town of Portland, which was then growing rapidly. He died in 1905, aged about 77 years. Cedar Mill may be reached from Portland by the Barnes and Cornell roads and has an elevation of 274 feet. The style Cedar Mills is wrong, although often seen in print.

CELILO, Wasco County. This name is used for a railroad station, for the navigation canal along the south bank of the Columbia River, and for "the rather low but romantic horseshoe shaped falls at the rock reef composing the upper end of this obstruction (Dalles) below which the Indian was accustomed to stand with his spear to pierce the jumping salmon. Like all other river falls these were known to the fur traders as The Chutes, and where the name Celilo was first used or whence it came is not known." T. C. Elliott, OHQ, June, 1915. Gustavus Hines, in