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BARE CREEK, Wallowa County. This stream flows into Imnaha River from the west in township 2 north, range 48 east. It was named for Ike N. Bare who settled on its banks about 1887. He came into the Wallowa Valley in the late '70s, according to J. H. Horner of Enterprise, and formerly lived in Iowa and Colorado. Bare was a typical frontiersman and also a rustic fiddler and minstrel. Bare Creek was once known as Fall Creek, but that name has sunk into disuse.

BARE ISLAND, Klamath County. This island is in Upper Klamath Lake not far from Modoc Point. It was so named because it was bare of any considerable stand of timber. The Klamath Indian name of this island was Aushme. Those Indians had a legend that it was created by one of their deities who threw a game-stick into the lake.

BARITE, Wheeler County, Barite was a name once used for a post office in the extreme southeast corner of the county, probably on or near Birch Creek southeast of Antone. Barite post office was established March 22, 1901, with Reuben Fields postmaster. The office was closed August 20, 1906. Barite, also called barytes and heavy spar, is sulphate of barium, frequently used in paint making. In December, 1945, F. W. Libbey, director of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, wrote the compiler that he had no knowledge of barite in the locality mentioned, but as it is not an uncommon mineral, it is quite possible that it could have been found there.

BARK CREEK, Benton County. Bark Creek flows northward from the foothills of Marys Peak. In 1937 Mark Phinney of Philomath interviewed Jerry E. Henkle, a well-known Benton County pioneer, who said the stream was named in the spring of 1856 by a party of neighbors looking for grazing land. They tried to cross this stream at a place so miry that they had to lay large pieces of fir bark to keep their horses from sinking. They called the stream Bark Creek.

BARKLEY SPRING, Klamath County. Barkley Spring is on the east shore of Upper Klamath Lake between Algoma and Modoc Point. It is a well-known locality, and bears the name of James Barkley, native of Ireland, who served at Fort Klamath as sergeant in C Company, Ist Oregon Cavalry and was discharged there about 1866. He lived in a small cabin near the spring for some years, then moved to a home in Yonna Valley. Still later he was thrown from a cart near the spring and killed.

BARKLOW MOUNTAIN, Coos and Curry counties. This mountain with an elevation of 3559 feet was named for a well known pioneer family of Coos County. Barlow, Clackamas County. Barlow is on the main line of the Southern Pacific Company in Clackamas County, and also on the Pacific Highway East. It was named for William Barlow. He was a son of Samuel K. Barlow, who opened the Barlow Road. William Barlow's reminiscences are in OHO, volume XIII, page 240, where it is stated that he was born October 26, 1822, in Marion County, Indiana, and it was in that state that his father had married Susannah Lee. The Barlows came to Oregon in 1845, traveling over the Cascade Range by what was later known as the Barlow Road, and arrived in Oregon City Christmas night. William Barlow engaged in various enterprises, and among other things, started the first black walnut trees grown in Oregon in 1859. Samuel K. Barlow bought the donation land claim of Thomas McKay on September 17, 1850, and afterwards sold this place to his son William. The railroad

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