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its lower end is not far from Cloud Cap Inn. It was named for Dr. Thomas Lamb Eliot, for many years one of Portland's most revered citizens. Dr. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 13, 1841, and graduated with the first class from Washington University in St. Louis, of which his father was chancellor. He came to Portland December 24, 1867, and took over the pastorate of the Unitarian Church. For a short biography of Dr. Eliot see the Oregonian, October 13, 1925, page 5. Dr. Eliot was at one time greatly interested in mountaineering and the glacier on Mount Hood was named for him on that account. He died in Portland April 26, 1936. In 1925 the Mazamas research committee made a number of investigations as to the rate of flow of Eliot Glacier. These observations were carried on at an elevation of approximately 7800 feet, and notes were taken for 14 weeks. The investigations indicated that the stakes which were set in the glacier traveled about four feet a week. The maximum movement was near the center of the glacier and the movement near the side walls was somewhat less, and during part of the season the sides of the glacier moved eight inches a week. Additional observations at an elevation of 7200 feet indicated a movement of about two feet a week for the central part of the glacier. See Mazama for December, 1925. Mazama, monthly edition, for August, 1926, gives additional information about the flow of this glacier. The greatest record for a year of any of the marks was made by one on the upper line, which moved 183.7 feet.

ELK BUTTE, Lake County. Elk Butte is near the southwest corner of section 12, township 27, range 22 east, a little to the southwest of Wagontire Mountain. This is in an area where elk have not frequently been found because of the lack of water. In May, 1947, Archie McGowan of Burns informed the writer that Elk Butte was named in the early '90s by members of the Hutton, Egli and other local families who discovered the track of a lone elk which took them to what they called Elk Butte. They were positive they were on the trail of a stray elk, which was very unusual for the desert country of Lake County.

ELK CITY, Lincoln County. Elk City is at the junction of Elk Creek and Yaquina River, and was named for the creek. It is said to have been the first settlement in what is now Lincoln County. Postal records show that Newton post office was established in July, 1868, with E. A. Abbey first postmaster. Marshall Simpson became postmaster in November, 1869. He was out of the office for a few years, but held the position again on November 23, 1888, when the name was changed from Newton to Elk City. It is said that he instigated the change. Statements to the effect that Elk City was named by pioneer settlers about 1865 do not agree with the records unless the locality and the post office went by different names. This has happened at a number of places in Oregon.

ELK CREEK, Benton and Lincoln counties. Jerry E. Henkle, Benton County pioneer, is authority for the statement that Elk Creek was named in 1856 by a party of explorers who went westward into the Coast Range looking for grazing land. The name was given because a fine bull elk was shot near one of the camps on the stream. Elk Creek rises on the west slope of Marys Peak and flows westward into Yaquina River.

ELK CREEK, Clatsop County. Captain William Clark was the first white man of record to visit the vicinity of Elk Creek, which he did