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County named for him. These features include Daley Creek and Daley Prairie. The creek, which is about four miles long, starts at a spring in the south part of the prairie, and flows west to join Deadwood Creek. Daley Creek is in township 37 south, range 4 east. The creek and the prairie were named many years ago in memory of an elk hunting expedition organized by Daley, an Ashland pioneer of 1864, and his brotherin-law, Samuel B. Hamilton, a Jacksonville miner of 1856. These two built a hunting cabin near Daley Creek about 1873, and for several years packed in from Ashland. Daley shipped a considerable number of beaver and other pelts from Ashland to San Francisco, where there was a ready sale. Daley abandoned the campsite and cabin after game laws became effective and bought a ranch about a mile above Lakecreek post office, where he farmed for nearly 35 years. He died at his home in Eagle Point in 1930, aged 84. He was a well-known resident of the Little Butte Creek area.

DALEY LAKE, Tillamook County. This lake is near the ocean about two miles southwest of Oretown. It is known as Fletcher Lake and also Daley Lake. D. R. S. Daley was an Oregon pioneer. He came to Tillamook County in the '70s and took up a homestead near the south end of the lake. Fletcher Lake is a modern name and in the opinion of the writer is not the correct one.

DALLAS, Polk County. Dallas is said to have been called Cynthia Ann originally. It was settled in the '40s on the north side of Rickreall Creek, but was moved more than a mile south in 1856 because of inadequate water supply. It was named for George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864), vice-president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. Dallas was vice-president during Polk's administration, and when a name was needed for the county seat of Polk County, it was but natural that Dallas was chosen. A narrow gage railroad was built into Dallas in 1878-80 as a result of a county seat fight with Independence. Independence was after the county seat honor, but citizens of Dallas raised $17,000 and secured the branch line, and this settled the contest for the seat of government. Dallas post office was established October 22, 1852, with John E. Lyle postmaster. Attention is called to discrepancies in the available information about the early name of Dallas. It appears both as Cynthian and Cynthia Ann. An article in the Oregon Spectator, February 10, 1852, makes sarcastic reference to Cynthian. It is reported that this name was chosen by a Mrs. Lovelady in memory of a place in Kentucky, but the name in Kentucky is Cynthiana. Mrs. Harriet McArthur and Judge C. H. Carey of Portland and Captain O. C. Applegate of Klamath Falls informed the compiler in 1927 that the place was named for Mrs. Jesse Applegate, whose given name was Cynthia Ann. The Applegates lived in Polk County at the time the place was named.

DALREED BUTTE, Morrow County. Dalreed Butte is in the extreme west part of the county about two miles north of Willow Creek. Roy Scott, postmaster at Cecil, Oregon, wrote the compiler in 1927 that this butte received its name about 50 years previously. It was named for Dal Reed, who lived near the butte at that time.

DALY CREEK, Baker County. Daly Creek is south of Richland. The stream was named for an early settler. Dunham Wright of Medical Springs told the compiler that Daly came to Oregon in 1862. See also letter from H. E. Daly on editorial page, the Oregonian, October 7, 1927.

DAMASCUS, Clackamas County. Mrs. John C. Elliott of Clackamas,