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spelling of the name. A news story in the Rainier Review, October 2, 1931, says that the town of Clatskanie was first known as Bryantville, which was platted early in 1884. A similar story is carried in an Historical Records Survey release printed in the Review, March 27, 1936. The compiler is unable to reconcile these statements with the fact that Clatskanie is shown on the official post office list as early as December, 1871.

CLATSOP, Clatsop County. Clatsop post office was established near the south end of Clatsop Plains in July, 1894, with Alexander Tagg first postmaster. This office operated with one intermission until July 25, 1919, when the business was turned over to Warrenton. The office was of course named for the county and for the Clatsop Indians. It was doubtless moved from time to time. The Tagg place was about a half a mile east of Clatsop school.

CLATSOP COUNTY. Clatsop District was created by the provisional legislature by an act passed June 22, 1844, and comprised parts of the northern and western parts of Twality District. F. V. Holman's article on the history of Oregon counties in OHQ, volume XI, page 24, gives detailed information about the formation and boundaries of the county. Clatsop is the name of an Indian tribe; mentioned in Lewis and Clark Journals and Gass' Journal. For description of Clatsop County in 1855, see the Oregonian, June 16, 1855. For history of Clatsop County, by Preston W. Gillette, ibid., November 20, December 12, 1895; January 18, 1896. For narrative of the Clatsop Indians, by Preston W. Gillette, ibid., October 23, 1899, page 6; his narrative of Mrs. Michel, last of the Clatsops, ibid., March 10, 1903, page 3; his narrative of pioneers of Clatsop County, ibid., November 20, 1895, page 6; January 18, 1896; description of Clatsop County in 1881, by Alfred Holman, ibid., September 9, 1887; biography and portrait of Mrs. Michel, February 26, 1905, page 22. Clatsop is given as Tlahsops by Silas B. Smith, in the OHQ, volume I, page 320. Townsend's Narrative gives Klatsop. Hale, in U. S. Exploring Expedition, Ethnography and Philology, 1846, page 215, gives Tlatsap. In OPA Transactions for 1887, page 85, the name is Tschlahtsoptchs. Dart, in Indian Affairs Report for 1851, gives Clatsops. Lewis and Clark give Clat Sops, Clatsops, etc. Farnham, in Travels, New York, 1843, page 111, gives Clatstops. There are many other variations. The Clatsops were of the Chinookan family, formerly at the mouth of the Columbia River, on the south side, between Tongue Point and the ocean, and south to Tillamook Head. Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1805-06 among them at Fort Clatsop. Clatsop County has a land area of 820 square miles, according to the U. S. Bureau of the Census. The name Clatsop has been applied to a number of geographic features in Oregon, includ. ing Clatsop Plains and Clatsop Spit. Claxtar, Marion County. Claxtar is one form of the name of the Tlatskanai Indian tribe, generally known as Clatskanie. For information about this tribe see Handbook of American Indians, volume II, page 763. When the Oregon Electric Railway was built officials used this name for a station north of Salem, adopting the spelling employed by Lewis and Clark.

CLAYPOOL BRIDGE, Linn County. This bridge is about four miles north of Lebanon. C. H. Stewart of Albany wrote the compiler in 1927: "In early days the old Indian trail south through the Willamette Valley nd's Narks by Silaskel, Febru nem nook Heade; between merly at ther varia