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Years in Oregon. The statement is incorrect, for the name should be Mrs. Fannie McDaniel.Her sons are well-known physicians in Portland. However the form Mount Fanny is too well established to change. Mount Fanny is a prominent peak to the east of Grande Ronde Valley and has an elevation of 7132 feet.

MOUNT GAULDY, Tillamook County. Mount Gauldy is a point south of Hebo and west of the Oregon Coast Highway. It is said to have been named for the Gauldy trail and the Gauldy trail was named because it was so steep and hard on men and horses. Packers and animals sustained pack-strap and saddle galls so frequently that the trace became known as the Galldy trail which was transformed into Gauldy trail.

MOUNT HARRIMAN, Klamath County. This prominent peak is west of Upper Klamath Lake. It was named to compliment Edward H. Harriman, financier and railroad magnate, who for a time had a summer camp on Pelican Bay nearby.

MOUNT HARRIS, Union County. Mount Harris, northeast of La Grande, was named for Joseph Harris, a pioneer resident nearby.

MOUNT HEBO, Tillamook and Yamhill counties. The compiler of these notes spent six years as a small boy on a farm in Polk County, and the most important landmark visible from his home was Mount Hebo. He speculated about Mount Hebo considerably, both then and later, and always had a notion that its name was corrupted from Mount Nebo. This does not seem to be a fact. On January 7, 1919, Miss Lucy E. Doughty of Bay City wrote the compiler sending information about Mount Hebo that came from Warren N. Vaughn, a Tillamook County pioneer. Vaughn relates that the mountain was named by a viewing party to find a new route to the Willamette Valley. The party climbed The mountain to get a better understanding of the country. One of the party, Cadiler, was impressed by the fine view and said, "We are very high up, so I will call this mountain Hevo." Miss Doughty explains this peculiar name by saying that Isaac Alderman, a member of the party, told her parents that the name was intended to be Heave Ho, because from their position the mountain seemed to have been heaved up above the surroundings. However that may be, it is apparent that the name became distorted somewhere along the line, and the present form is Mount Hebo. In 1926 the postmaster at Hebo wrote the compiler that the name Hebo was a misunderstanding of the name Heave Ho, and attributed the original form to the Indians. This seems improbable to the compiler. Vaughn was a reliable citizen and his story plus Alderman's explanation is probably nearer the truth. A determination made some years ago by the USC&GS gives the elevation of Mount Hebo as 3153 feet.

MOUNT Hood, Hood River County. This is a post office in the upper Hood River Valley. It is reported that the community developed on land owned by a man named Tieman, and when the post office was applied for, it was named Mount Hood for the reason that the mountain was the most important object in the landscape.

MOUNT HOOD, Hood River and Clackamas counties. On October 29, 1792, Lieutenant William Robert Broughton, of Vancouver's command, discovered Mount Hood and in his Voyage of Discovery, Vancouver makes the following comment: "A very distant high snowy mountain now appeared rising beautifully conspicuous in the midst of an extensive tract of low, or moderately elevated, land, lying S. 67