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Santishway Hogg pare, but is sometimes applied to this feature, but the compiler thinks it is wrong. For many years the name Hogg Pass was applied to the locality now used by the Santiam Highway in crossing the summit of the Cascade Range and the name Santiam Pass was used for the low point traversed by the Santiam toll road about three miles to the south. In 1929 there developed an agitation to apply the name Santiam Pass to both these localities on the theory that they constituted but one main geographic feature and also because the Santiam Highway would eventually draw the name Santiam Pass, to the elimination of Hogg Pass. The USBGN, in 1929, adopted the name Santiam Pass for the pass as a whole, rejecting the style Hogg Pass. John Minto, in OHQ, volume IV, page 248, says that Hogg's name was probably applied by J. I. Blair of New York, who was connected with the Hogg enterprises. Minto also says that John B. Waldo first noted the apparent lowness of Santiam Pass. However, Andrew Wiley crossed the pass as early as 1859 and recognized its importance. See under WILEY CREEK.

HOLBROOK, Multnomah County. Philo Holbrook was a pioneer of Oregon, and owned a farm at the present site of Holbrook. When the post office was established, it was named for him.

HOLCOMB LAKE, Washington County. Holcomb Lake is about three miles northeast of Orenco. It was named for Stephen A. Holcomb, a pioneer settler who took up a donation land claim nearby.

HOLDMAN, Umatilla County. Holdman brothers were early settlers in this community, and when the post office was established in 1900, it was named for them.

HOLE-IN-THE-GROUND, Lake County. This very remarkable place is well described by its name. It covers an area of about a quarter of a mile, and its floor is over three hundred feet below the surrounding land level. It is about eight miles northwest of Fort Rock.

HOLLADAY, Clatsop County. A railroad signboard at the end of the track south of Seaside is all that exists in Oregon today of a geographic nature to call to mind one of Oregon's most important pioneer citizens. Ben Holladay came to Oregon in August, 1868, with what was considered immense wealth and plunged into the Willamette Valley railroad fight that was then raging. Holladay was a native of Kentucky and came west in 1856, and having made money in the overland stage business, he sold out to Wells Fargo & Company about 1866 and turned his attentions to Oregon. He allied himself with the east side, or Salem interests, and built in all about 240 miles of railroad. In 1873 his railroad defaulted, and today is part of the Southern Pacific system. Holladay's ventures and extravagances scattered his wealth. He died July 8, 1887, aged 68 years. For references to his activities and controversies see Scott's History of the Oregon Country, volume III, page 172. His name was applied to the station in Clatsop County because for some years he was interested in the Seaside House, a famous pioneer resort south of the present site of Seaside. A post office called Ben Holladay was established in Clatsop County on June 13, 1890, with C. C. Cooper postmaster. The office was closed April 9, 1891.

HOLLAND, Josephine County. Holland post office was established in April, 1899, and the first postmaster was John M. Smock. The post office was named after a pioneer settler in the neighborhood, James E. Holland.

HOLLEY, Linn County. The post office at Holley was established