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part of our forests. The place in Tillamook County, which has been discontinued as a post office, was named for the western hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, which grows in great abundance in the Coast Range. It is a fine large tree, growing 160 feet high, and even taller, and is characteristic of the middle, moist, forest zone, on western slopes, but is not common east of the Cascade Range. The other variety of hemlock in Oregon is known as mountain or black hemlock, Tsuga mertensiana, and is an alpine tree with little resemblance to the western hemlock. It has drooping slender branches, and its height is not often more than 60 feet. It grows near the timber line, and is not often found below 4000 feet in the Cascade Range, and in other mountains in eastern Oregon. It prefers a north exposure, and will endure dense shade. It grows in Oregon above 8000 feet. See Sudworth's Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope. The mountain hemlock has a rather larger cone than the western hemlock. Its leaves are rounded and plump looking, differing in this respect from other hemlocks. The leaves of the western hemlock are flat and grooved.

HEMSTAD, Deschutes County. According to Robert W. Sawyer of Bend, Hemstad post office was named for a local homesteader, Olaf Hemstad. The office was near the middle of the northeast quarter of township 22 south, range 16 east, near the south boundary of Deschutes County, east of the Paulina Mountains and about fifteen miles southeast of Millican. The post office was established December 8, 1917, with Frank P. Drake first and only postmaster. It was discontinued November 15. 1918.

HENDERSON CREEK, Lincoln County. Henderson Creek flows into the Pacific Ocean about two miles south of Yaquina Bay. The Oregon Coast Highway crosses the creek a little to the northeast of the old Lifesaving Station which is near the beach. In 1945 Mr. Andrew L. Porter of Newport told the writer that the stream was named for a nearby land owner who had moved away some years before.

HENKLE BUTTE, Deschutes County. Jeremiah E. Henkle was born in 1843 and came to Oregon when he was ten years old. He spent most of his life in Benton County, where he was well known. He enlisted in Company A of the First Volunteer Infantry in December, 1864, and served at Vancouver Barracks and at Fort Yamhill. The company left Fort Yamhill on September 4, 1865, and arrived at Camp Polk near what is now the town of Sisters, on September 23, 1865. Henkle spent the winter at the camp and was mustered out on June 30, 1866. See Oregon Adjutant General's Report, 1865-66, and also story by Fred Lockley, editorial page, Oregon Journal, June 25, 1935, which contains more data about Henkle. Henkle Butte, elevation 3390 feet, is on the north side of Squaw Creek about two miles northeast of the site of Camp Polk. In February, 1943, Billy Wilson of Sisters, then 86 years old and in good health, recalled the story of the naming of the butte. Wilson said the commanding officer at the camp put up a prize for the soldier who made the round trip from camp to the butte in the shortest time and Jerry Henkle won the race. The point has borne his name since that time. The spelling Hinkle is wrong.

HENLINE MOUNTAIN, Marion County. Henline Mountain is about 12 miles northeast of Mill City, near Little North Santiam River. It was named for an early settler who was interested in a mining enterprise nearby.