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named for Harvey Scott, editor of the Oregonian, by W. P. Keady, in 1889. In that year, and in 1890, Mr. Scott bought 335 acres of land on the north and west slopes of the hill. From that time until November, 1909, when he sold the land to Mount Scott Park Cemetery Corporation, the editor continually kept men working the soil and clearing away the forest and stumps. In this effort Mr. Scott expended considerable money, but he was determined to "tame that wild land," as he frequently expressed it. For a detailed description of Mr. Scott's life, see Scott's History of the Oregon Country. For W. P. Keady's part in the development and naming of Mount Scott, see editorial page of the Oregon Journal, September 24, 1928. There it is said that the butte was once called Mount Zion.

MOUNT SCOTT, Douglas County. The history of this post office is unsatisfactory. Available postal records show that it was established October 14, 1854, and discontinued October 5, 1857. Andrew J. Chapman was postmaster. An army map of December, 1887, shows the place at a point on North Umpqua River a few miles west of what is now Glide. The office was of course named for Scott Mountain, a prominent point a little to the northeast, which was in turn named for Captain Levi Scott. When the office at Pattersons Mills was closed in June, 1886, a note was made that the business was turned over to Mount Scott office, but that establishment, according to the record, had been discontinued near thirty years previously. It seems probable that the file of postal records in the possession of the compiler is incomplete and that the post office was actually in operation as late as the '80s, at least.

MOUNT SCOTT, Crater Lake National Park, Klamath County. This mountain lies east of Crater Lake and is one of the important peaks of the Cascade Range. It was named for Levi Scott, a pioneer of 1844, and the founder of Scottsburg, in Douglas County. For additional information see under that heading. Mount Scott has an elevation of 8938 feet. The Klamath Indian name for Mount Scott was Tum-sum-ne, according to the treaty of 1864.

MOUNT SYLVANIA, Multnomah County. Mount Sylvania is in the extreme southwest part of the county. It has an elevation of about 950 feet. The Pacific Highway West skirts its northeast shoulder. The name is derived from Silvanus, the deity or spirit of the Italian woodlands. Silvanus is not wholly associated with the wild woodlands, but those near civilization, and partly cleared, so to speak, or the bordering and fringing woodlands. Silvanius' name came from silva, Latin name for wood. His name is generally misspelled, Sylvanus, and from this we have the name Sylvan and Sylvania. The post office list of 1853 shows Mountsylvania, an office not far from the present site of Metzger, and a short distance from the mountain now known by the same name. The writer has been unable to learn who established the name, either for the post office or for the mountain, but he was told by the late Colonel Henry E. Dosch of Hillsdale that the mountain had been so called since pioneer days. Information furnished the compiler by postal authorities in Washington in 1927 does not agree with that printed in the list of post offices in the Oregonian, March 26, 1853. The records in Washington indicate that the name of the office was in two words, Mount Sylvania. This office was established August 6, 1852, and was discontinued November 14, 1854. It operated again for a short time in 1856. Israel Mitchell was the only postmaster. John B. Preston's Map of Oregon and Washington of 1856