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OM are was er2 nd was covered with wild geese." Broughton named this Goose Island on October 31. It is indeed unfortunate that the name of Archibald Menzies has not been perpetuated in Oregon geography. Memoir No. V of the Archives of British Columbia, entitled Menzies' Journal of Vancouver's Voyage, gives an excellent account of the great botanist and his work in the Pacific Northwest. Lewis and Clark reached Hayden Island on November 4, 1805, and named it Image Canoe Island, because of the presence of a canoe with carved images at the bow. It is perhaps not surprising that Thwaites confused Image Canoe Island with Wapato, now Sauvie Island, when he edited the Lewis and Clark journals, for while Lewis and Clark maps are quite clear, the text is somewhat perplexing. Gay Hayden, a pioneer of 1850, owned all of or part of this island in pioneer days, and it has borne his name ever since. He was for many years a resident of Clark County, Washington. Some maps show the names of Shaw Island and Vancouver Island, but the USBGN has decided against these forms. Dr. John Scouler used the name Menzies Island on May 2, 1825, when he and David Douglas made a short excursion from Fort Vancouver and found a number of interesting plants. See OHQ, volume VI, page 173.

HAYDEN LAKE, Polk County. Hayden Lake is near the west bank of the Willamette River, two miles southwest of Eola. It was named for Benjamin Hayden, a picturesque pioneer lawyer of Oregon, who achieved fame as a rustic raconteur. West of Hayden Lake is Hayden Slough and nearby in the Willamette River is Hayden Island, both of which were named for the same man. Hayes Hill, Josephine County. Hayes Hill was in pioneer days a place that travelers had to reckon with, between Rogue River and Kerby. The road was steep and hard to negotiate. Hayes Hill was named for Jarvis Hayes, a pioneer settler nearby. For additional information about this locality and Fort Hayes, see Walling's History of Southern Oregon, page 452.

HAYLAND, Tillamook County. The compiler is of the opinion that Hayland was a natural, descriptive name, selected by Mr. and Mrs. Mulligan, local landowners, because of the low grassy meadows of several acres. Hayland post office was established April 16, 1888, with Mary J. Mulligan first and only postmaster. The office was discontinued September 26, 1888, with papers to Dolph. This office was at the place now known as Boyer, very close to the John Boyer monument on the Salmon River Highway. It is possible that John Boyer purchased the property from the Mulligans, although that is not certain.

HAYNES INLET, Coos County. Haynes Inlet is the large north arm of Coos Bay and is fed principally by Larson Slough and Palouse Creek on the east, and on the west it is joined but not exactly fed by North Slough. The mouth of the inlet is about a mile wide. The east shore of Haynes Inlet is traversed by the Oregon Coast Highway. Dodge, in his Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, page 134, says that the inlet was named for Henry Haines, an early day settler who discovered coal near the present site of Glascow, just south of the inlet. However on page 16, Dodge spells the name Haynes. Whatever the facts are about the way that this pioneer spelled his name, the geographic feature has been called Haynes Inlet for many years and that is the style used on government maps.

HAYSTACK, Jefferson County. Haystack post office was established on n River Hoyer, veryPapers to Dolder. The offi.pril 16, 1889 ws of