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edhe Toen WI ille part of the Bohemian mining district. Monte Rico is Spanish for rich mountain, and in this case the name probably refers to the ore prospects.

MONUMENT, Grant County. This post office was established October 27, 1874, with Prior S. Wilson postmaster. It was named for a peculiar rock or mountain nearby which resembles a pulpit or rostrum. This peak is called Monument Mountain.

MOODY, Wasco County. Moody is a station on the Oregon Trunk Line near the mouth of Deschutes River. It was named for Malcolm A. Moody of The Dalles, who was a member of a prominent pioneer family, and at one time U. S. representative in Congress from eastern Oregon. He owned a power site near the mouth of the Deschutes River. When the Oregon Trunk Railway was built there was a large material yard at Moody, and a post office was established to take care of mail for construction camps along the line in Deschutes Canyon. When the work was completed the town of Moody faded away, and is now only a station. Moody post office was established December 7, 1911, with Ida Carlisle postmaster. Available records of its history are not clear. It may have been moved to Sherman County and renamed Miller, or it may have been consolidated with the Miller office, already in operation. The move and change in name of Moody post office has not affected the name of Moody station in Wasco County, which remains as originally established.

MOOLACK CREEK, Lincoln County. Moolack Creek, named with the Chinook jargon word for elk, is a couple of miles north of Agate Beach. The style Moloch Creek, commemorating the bull-headed idol of the Canaanites, is wrong, and is due to a mishearing of the real name.

MOOLACK MOUNTAIN, Lane County. This mountain was formerly known as Elk Mountain because of the local abundance of that animal. Of late years it has been called Moolack Mountain, which is the Chinook jargon word for elk. The name was changed because there were a number of other Elk mountains in the state. Moolack Mountain has an elevation of 5500 feet, and is north of Waldo Lake.

MOONEY MOUNTAIN, Josephine County. Walling, in History of Southern Oregon, page 452, says that one Mooney was the first settler in the Illinois Valley to avail himself of the privilege of the donation land law. It may be assumed that the mountain northeast of Selma was named for this pioneer.

MOOREVILLE, Malheur County. The locality called Mooreville is in the high country about twenty-five miles south-southeast of Riverside, airline. It bears the name of a local family. Mooreville post office was established September 23, 1912, and was closed June 30, 1919, with mail to Crowley. Esther M. Moore was the only postmaster.

MOORHOUSE, Umatilla County. Moorhouse post office was established with the name Morehouse on January 5, 1880, and with Thomas L. Morehouse postmaster. The name should have been spelled Moorhouse, and accordingly the Post Office Department changed the record to Moorhouse with Thomas L. Moorhouse postmaster on March 25, 1880, and it remained that way until it was discontinued June 6, 1883. Thomas L. Moorhouse was the same man as Thomas Leander Moorhouse, but far better known as Major Lee Moorhouse. Major Moorhouse was one of eastern Oregon's most prominent characters and in later years became famous for the remarkable Indian pictures that came from his camera. Moorhouse post office was situated at the Prospect Ranch of the John R.