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 ily was well known. Anderson post office was established June 6, 1889, with Mary Anderson postmaster. The name of the office was changed to Selma on July 10, 1897. The office may have been moved to the new location at that time.

ANDERSON CREEK, Lincoln County. In September, 1945, Andrew L. Porter of Newport told the compiler that Anderson Creek was named for Carl Anderson who had a homestead in the northwest quarter of section 4, township 11 south, range 11 east. Anderson lived near the stream for many years and was well known. Anderson Creek flows into Big Creek just northeast of Newport.

ANDERSON LAKE, Lake County. This lake is one of the Warner Lakes. It is said to have been named for Thomas A. Anderson, a nearby resident.

ANDERSON SPRING, Crater Lake National Park, Klamath County. This spring is about a mile east of Kerr Notch in the southeast rim of Crater Lake and is one of the sources of Sand Creek. It has an elevation of approximately 6800 feet. It was named for Frank M. Anderson by Captain O. C. Applegate in 1888.

ANDERSON VALLEY, Harney County. Anderson Valley is so called because one "Doc" Anderson lived therein. It is about 25 miles southeast of Malheur Lake. Anderson post office was established in 1908.

ANDREWS, Harney County. This post office was named for Peter Andrews, who settled in the Wildhorse Valley about 1890. The post office was established in that year.

ANEROID LAKE, Wallowa County. Aneroid Lake and Aneroid Point, one of the high peaks of the Wallowa Mountains, are among the show places of northern Oregon. The lake was named in the fall of 1897 by Hoffman Philip, at that time a member of a party making an investigation for the United States Fish Commission. He made a barometric determination of the elevation of the lake, using an aneroid barometer, and applied the name on that account. These facts are related in a letter by Philip, printed in the Enterprise Chieftain for November 16, 1933. At that time Philip was American minister to Norway and the letter was written from the American legation at Oslo. It is an interesting coincidence that prior to 1897 the lake appears to have been called Anna Royal Lake, but the reasons given for the name Anna Royal are not as conclusive as they might be. J. H. Horner, long a student of Wallowa history, told the compiler that the name was applied in 1893 in honor of Miss Anna Royal of Walla Walla, who was the first white woman to climb up to the lake. The compiler has also been furnished with the spelling Anna Royl. However, in the story printed in the Chieftain, mentioned above, it is said that the name was applied by a Professor M. G. Royal, who attended a teachers' institute at Joseph in 1893 and was the guest of J. D. McCully. His mother's name was Mary Ann (Stanley) Royal, and it is said he named the lake for her. The compiler has been unable to reconcile all these discrepancies. The name Aneroid is now so well-established that it seems improbable that it will be supplanted by the older style.

ANGELL PEAK, Baker and Grant counties. Angell Peak, elevation approximately 8675 feet, is situated at the summit of the Blue Mountains, a little to the south of the junction of Union, Grant and Baker counties. Angell Peak was named by the Forest Service to honor Albert G. Angell, a member of the service in Oregon for nearly thirty years. More than half