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east. On December 10, 1877, the name was changed again, this time to Crown Rock for a prominent geological formation in the vicinity, apparently a rimrock of basalt.

CRUTCHER, Malheur County. Crutcher post office was established on the Malheur County list March 20, 1900, with Elliott W. Crutcher first and only postmaster. The office bore his family name. It was in operation only until August 13, 1901, when it was closed to Jordan Valley. The compiler has not been able to learn the exact location of this office but obviously it was in the east part of the county and south of Vale.

CRUTCHER BENCH, Clackamas County. This side hill bench lies just north of the junction of Sandy and Zigzag rivers. It was named for H. P. Crutcher, who filed a claim on the bench about 1890.

CRUZATTE, Lane County. Cruzatte, a station on the Cascade line of the Southern Pacific Company, was named for a member of the Lewis and Clark party, Peter Cruzatte. Lewis and Clark spelled his name in several ways, and named a stream in Washington for him, now known as Wind River.

CRYSTAL, Klamath County. This name was originally applied to a fine stream flowing into Upper Klamath Lake near Pelican Bay. In 1925, Postmaster S. A. Brown reported that he thought the stream was named in 1891 by G. W. Malone and John Young. Crystal, as the name of the office, was proposed by the first postmaster, D. G. Brown, in 1894, when it was established through his efforts.

CUCAMONGA CREEK, Harney County. This stream rises on the northwest slopes of Steens Mountain, and enters Kiger Creek, a tributary of Donner und Blitzen River. The name is derived from Cucamonga Creek, San Bernardino County, California, and was applied to the Harney County stream by Mrs. Dolly Kiger. Cucamonga is an Indian name and according to Mrs. Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez, in Spanish and Indian Place Names of California, was originally applied to a native village about 42 miles east of Los Angeles, and later to a land grant. Mrs. Kiger wrote the compiler in 1927 that she lived in the Harney Valley from 1874 to 1878 and that one of her neighbors, Mace McCoy, had formerly lived in California and frequently spoke of Cucamonga wine, a variety made in the southern part of the state. Mrs. Kiger named Cucamonga Creek because she liked the sound of the word.

CULLABY LAKE, Clatsop County. A lake on Clatsop Plains, about two miles long, fed by small streams. The present outlet is through a ditch into Skipanon River. Many years ago this lake drained through Neacoxie Creek, which first flowed northward and then turned south and emptied into the estuary of Necanicum River. Shifting sands have from time to time interfered with the flow of Neacoxie Creek and thus changed the drainage from Cullaby Lake. In recent times extensive cranberry culture has developed along the shores of the lake. Its elevation is near sea level. Silas B. Smith is authority for the statement that the Indian name for this lake was Ya-se-ya-ma-na-la-tslas-tie. See OHQ, volume I, page 322. It was later named for Cullaby, a well-known Indian character on Clatsop Plains. Cullaby had a peculiar light complexion, and was a son of the Indian whom Lewis and Clark saw on the last day of the year 1805, and whom they described as "freckled with long dusky red hair, about 25 years of age, and must certainly be half white at least."