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elevation 4181 feet, is about 20 miles northwest of Kerby on the high divide south of Illinois River. It was named for James H. Billingslea, who served in the U. S. Forest Service for more than fifteen years, including six years as supervisor of Siskiyou National Forest. He died November 7, 1939.

MOUNT BOLIVAR, Coos and Curry counties. Mount Bolivar, elevation 4297 feet, is at the extreme southeast corner of Coos County, and as far as the writer knows, is the highest peak in the Oregon Coast Range north of Rogue River, although there are higher peaks to the south. The elevation given above was determined by the USC&GS in 1907 and may be superseded. Mount Bolivar was named by a wellknown Coos County surveyor, Simon Bolivar Cathcart, during a township survey carried on about 1900. While the name was his own, it was applied to the mountain in honor of the South American patriot, Simon Bolivar, 1783-1830, who was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and who spent his mature years and a large part of his fortune in securing the independence of Columbia, Peru and Ecuador. The name is frequently misspelled Boliver and generally mispronounced. The correct accent is on the second syllable of each word. For information about Simon Bolivar Cathcart, see under MOUNT CATHCART.

MOUNT BONNEVILLE, Wallowa County. This mountain was formerly known as Middle Mountain, but in 1925 the USBGN, at the suggestion of J. Neilson Barry of Portland, changed the name to Mount Bonneville, in honor of Captain Benjamin L. E. Bonneville, U. S. A., who was possibly the first white man to visit the Wallowa Valley. For additional information see under BONNEVILLE. Mount Bonneville is just south of Wallowa Lake.

MOUNT CATHCART, Coos County. This point is in the Coast Range east of Coos Bay, and bears the name of Simon Bolivar Cathcart, prominent civil engineer and surveyor of Coos County. S. B. Cathcart was born in Indiana in 1842, came to Oregon in 1853, and in the '60s served in the First Oregon Cavalry. He engaged in the stock business at various places, and studied surveying. In 1872 he settled at the head of tide on Millicoma River. In 1929 he informed the compiler that Mount Cathcart was named for him by R. U. Goode and W. T. Griswold of the U. S. Geological Survey. This was apparently about the time the Survey was mapping the Coos Bay area in 1895-96. Mr. Cathcart served as mineral surveyor and also as Coos County surveyor, and was a prominent citizen of southwest Oregon. He died on May 13, 1932. Mount David DOUGLAS, Lane County. The USBGN, at the suggestion of the writer, adopted on November 2, 1927, the name Mount David Douglas for a conspicuous, angular, peak on the north side of Salt Creek Valley, opposite the Cascade line of the Southern Pacific Company. This peak has an elevation of 6253 feet. David Douglas was the great pioneer botanist of Oregon, and his discoveries in this state were of the first order. Douglas was born in Scotland in 1798. He served his apprenticeship as gardener to the Earl of Mansfield, and later received an appointment in the Glasgow botanical gardens. The Royal Horticultural Society became interested in the country of the Hudson's Bay Company, and asked to have an exploring botanist recommended for American research. Douglas received the appointment and sailed for America the first time in 1823. He worked along the Atlantic Coast and returned to