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round, whole or complete. The accent is on the second syllable. This word is not the same as lolo, meaning to pack, or carry, which has the accent on the first syllable. There is a Lolo Butte not far from Lolah Butte. Lolo BUTTE, Deschutes County. This butte southwest of Bend was named by the Forest Service with the Chinook jargon word for pack or carry, apparently because supplies had to be carried to it. Lolo Pass, Clackamas and Hood River counties. Lolo Pass lies at the summit of the Cascade Range about two miles south of Bull Run Lake. From the west it is reached by way of Clear Fork Sandy River. Its elevation is about 3400 feet. It was named by Thomas H. Sherrard of the Forest Service for Lolo Pass in the Bitterroot Range in Idaho-Montana. John E. Rees, in his pamphlet Idaho, says that Lolo Pass in the Bitterroot Range received its name from a hunter and trapper named Lawrence who was buried on the banks of a stream on the Montana side. The Indians called the creek Lolo Creek because that was the best they could do with his name. They pronounced the name Loulou Creek. This stream heads northeast of the pass. It was called Travelers Rest Creek by Lewis and Clark. The attention of the compiler has been called to the fact that the Chinook jargon word for carrying and back-packing is lolo, and it is said that the pass in the Bitterroot Range was named from this source. Pioneers familiar with the Lolo Pass do not seem to have considered this to be the origin of the name. Gannett has yet another theory about lolo, and says that it is Nez Perce for muddy water.

LOMA, Harney County. Loma is a Spanish word meaning rising ground, or slope, frequently used for a locality from which there is a good view. Loma post office in Harney County was about eight miles north of the place called Narrows, in what was known as Sunset Valley, At one time there were thirty-five or forty homesteaders in Sunset Valley, who later moved from the area. Loma post office was established January 20, 1911, with Nathaniel Henney postmaster. The office was closed to Burns November 27, 1912. Henney had made a previous effort to get postal service. An office named Henney, with Henney as the postmaster, was established June 4, 1908, but was never put in active service. The order was rescinded as of January 31, 1909. The Loma post office was in the Henney home, just about south of the east end of Wright Point, near the center of the Henney homestead. This homestead claim was at the southeast corner of the intersection of the road east to Lawen and the road south to Narrows.

LOMA Vista, Lake County. The name Loma Vista was made up of Spanish words meaning rising ground where a view was to be had. It is the same sort of a name as Viewpoint. Loma Vista post office was established in the Fort Rock Valley on September 6, 1913, and was closed May 31, 1918.

LONDON PEAK, Josephine County. Up to recent times this peak seems to have had no name, but in 1939 Mrs. Helen Paul of Wolf Creek requested that it be named London Peak in honor of Jack London, the writer. Mrs. Paul is authority for the statement that Jack London spent several months in the vicinity when he was writing Valley of the Moon, and the peak was one of his favorites. London Peak is about a mile and a half southwest of the town of Wolf Creek and a mile west of Pacific Highway and has an elevation of about 300 feet. The USBGN adopted Mrs. Paul's suggestion.