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Guidebook of the Western United States, Part D, The Shasta Route. The name Diller Glacier seems to have been applied by Dr. I. C. Russell of the USGS in August, 1903. See USGS Bulletin 252, page 125. Dr. Diller was born in Pennsylvania in 1850 and graduated from Harvard (Lawrence) in 1879. He joined the USGS in 1883 and was a valued member of the organization until his retirement in 1923. Most of his field-work was in southwest Oregon and north California and his knowledge of the geology of those areas was profound. He died at Washington, D. C., November 13, 1928.

DILLEY, Washington County. Dilley was named for Milton E. Dilley, a pioneer resident.

DILLON, Wasco County. This is a station on the railroad near the Celilo Canal. It was named for an army officer, Captain Theo. H. Dillon, who was a member of the engineer corps and assisted in the construction of the canal. One of the construction camps was known as Dillon's Camp, which the railroad company called Dillon.

DINGER LAKE, Clackamas County. Forest Ranger Joe Graham of Clackamas Lake is authority for the statement that this lake was named because Mack Holloman caught fine trout therein, calling them "humdingers." Only the last part of the word was applied to the lake.

DINNER CREEK, Clackamas County. Dinner Creek is a small stream tributary to Clackamas River about two miles above Roaring River. W. C. Elliott, a well-known civil engineer of Portland, told the writer that he named the stream in 1897 because his surveying party stopped there for dinner.

DINWIDDIE VALLEY, Linn County. C. H. Stewart of Albany wrote the compiler in 1927 as follows: "This valley, in the hills southwest of Brownsville, I am told was named for a little old bowlegged Scotchman named Hugh Dinwiddie, who for many years was secretary of the Brownsville Woolen Mills."

DISCOVERY POINT, Klamath County. Crater Lake was discovered on June 12, 1853, by John W. Hillman and a party of prospectors. The party first came on the lake at a point on the southwest rim. This place has since been called Discovery Point to commemorate the event.

DISSTON, Lane County. Disston post office was established October 25, 1906, with Cranston H. Jones first postmaster. The writer has been unable to learn the origin of the name, Lena M. Carr, postmaster at Disston in 1926, wrote that some people in the neighborhood said the place was named for the Disston saws that were used in the sawmills in the town.

DIVIDE, Douglas and Lane counties. Divide is a natural name for a station on the Southern Pacific a few miles southwest of Cottage Grove on the watershed between the Willamette and the Umpqua rivers. Eastward the drainage is toward Coast Fork Willamette River and to the west is Pass Creek, a tributary to Elk Creek. Divide station is in Lane County and it has an elevation of about 625 feet. Just west of Divide station the Pacific Highway crosses over the railroad on a viaduct, and the Lane-Douglas county line is less than a mile west of this overpass. Divide post office was established to serve this neighborhood on May 31, 1900, with Edna Hedrick first postmaster. This office was on the Douglas County post office list. The office is shown on the Lane County list as of May 10, 1909, and it was discontinued January 15, 1921. The tershed" "hern Pacific counties