Page:Oregon Geographic Names, third edition.djvu/330



Hwo different 918 and now as the o worked well at Saint Helens. As a result the name of Houlton office was changed in the summer of 1946 to Saint Helens, Station A. House Rock, Deschutes and Lane counties. This House Rock is on the summit of the Cascade Range, a few miles south of the Three Sisters, and has an elevation of 6737 feet. It is named because of its shape. It has also been called McArthur Hill in compliment to Judge Lewis L. McArthur, 1843-97, Oregon attorney and jurist, but that name has not prevailed.

HOWARD, Crook County. The community of Howard was in at least two different places in the Ochoco Valley, but the post office was abandoned about 1918 and now Howard is a ghost town. The original Howard was what is now known as the Ochoco Mines on Ochoco Creek near the mouth of Scissors Creek. It was named for a rancher and prospector who found gold there in 1872. Mining became active in the place, but the boom petered out in the early '90s. It revived and with its resumption came a post office. It was about 28 miles northeast of Prineville. În 1909 the post office was moved to a point in the Ochoco Valley about 18 miles east of Prineville on the Ochoco Highway. The office was discontinued about 1918. Howard MEADOWS, Wallowa County. These meadows are in township 3 north, range 41 east. They drain through Howard Creek into Wallowa River. They bear the name of Abe Howard who took up a homestead in the vicinity about 1885. Howard was killed when a horse fell on him, and his sons buried him on the north edge of the meadows named for him.

HOWARD SPRING, Wallowa County. This spring, in township 4 north, range 47 east, was named for General O. 0. Howard, who camped in the vicinity in the summer of 1878 when he was leaving the Grande Ronde Valley. For information about General Howard, see under the heading MOUNT Howard. Howe, Yamhill County. Howe station near Carlton was named for William Addison Howe, a resident of Carlton and Portland for many years. He was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard in 1881, and came to Oregon the following year. While a student at St. Mark's School in Massachusetts Mr. Howe made and used the first baseball mask, by reinforcing a fencing mask with stronger wire. Mr. Howe died in Portland, February 2, 1934. Howell PRAIRIE, Marion County. Howell Prairie is west of Silverton, between the branches of Pudding River. It was named for a pioneer settler, John Howell, who came to Oregon in 1843. For information about Howell Prairie and the Howell family, see Down's History of the Silverton Country. .

HOWLOCK MOUNTAIN, Douglas and Klamath counties. This is an important peak in the Cascade Range north of Mount Thielsen, and has an elevation of 8351 feet. It was at one time known as Walker Mountain, possibly for W. T. Walker of the road-viewing party that explored Middle Fork Willamette River in 1852. See under WALKER

MOUNTAIN for additional information. About 1916, at the suggestion of the compiler hereof, the USBGN changed the name of the peak to Howlock Mountain, for a well known Piute Indian chief who ranged central Oregon. The reason for this change was that the name Walker Mountain was applied to a more important mountain southeast