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Crater Lake Highway near the concrete bridge which carries the highway over the river, but the cove itself is up river a few hundred yards and on the southeast side of the stream. The name is descriptive of a little nook on the river bank, but is not particularly applicable to the locality of the post office and the highway bridge. Shady Cove post office was established in September, 1939, with Mrs. Lillian F. Hukill postmaster. The compiler has been informed that the name Shady Cove was applied to the place upstream from the post office some years before the office was established, by one J. Powell of Medford.

SHAMROCK CREEK, Wallowa County. Shamrock Creek and Shamrock Flat are near Flora. These features are said to have been named by some soldiers who crossed the Grande Ronde River at Hanson Ferry from Walla Walla about 1885 or 1886. These soldiers had difficulty in fording the river and lost part of their equipment. After traveling near Bear Creek and Buford Creek they camped on a small flat at the head of what is now known as Shamrock Creek. When they left they painted a sign on a tree with a shamrock on it, and the flat has been known by that name ever since.

SHANIKO, Wasco County. Shaniko was named for a pioneer settler, August Scherneckau. Scherneckau came to Oregon after the Civil War and bought a farm near the present site of Shaniko. Indians pronounced the name Shaniko, and that is how the locality got its name. The Scherneckau ranch was on the stage route from The Dalles to central Oregon and August Scherneckau opened a stage station and kept the travel. Scherneckau some years later moved to Astoria, and after residing there several years moved to California, where he died. This locality was first called Cross Hollows, and a post office with that name was established May 23, 1879, with Scherneckau first postmaster. The office was closed May 27, 1887. The words Cross Hollows were supposed to be descriptive of the local topography. Shaniko post office was established March 31, 1900, with John D. Wilcox first postmaster. For additional information about Shaniko, see Bend Bulletin, September 24, 1930, and for story about early days in Shaniko by Giles L. French, see news section of the Oregonian, December 12, 1943. Sharps CREEK, Lane County. This stream was named for a wellknown pioneer character, Bohemia Sharp. He was an early prospector and road builder. The stream is a tributary of Row River.

SHASTA Costa CREEK, Curry County. Shasta Costa Creek is a tributary of Rogue River. It bears the name of the Shas-te-koos-tee Indians. Orvil Dodge spells the name of the Indian tribe in this manner and says that it numbered about 145 in 1854. The name of the creek does not seem to have anything to do with either Mount Shasta or the Spanish word costa meaning coast, but is merely the white man's convenient method of writing the Indian name. The Handbook of Amer's ican Indians lists the tribe or band as the Chastocosta, part of the Tututni Indians, in volume II, page 857.

SHASTA GULCH, Malheur County. Shasta Gulch is in the extreme north end of Malheur County, and drains south into Willow Creek. This gulch was named in the gold rush of the '60s by miners from the Shasta region of northern California.

SHATTUCK, Multnomah County. Erasmus D. Shattuck was one of the foremost jurists of Oregon. He came to Oregon in 1853 from New York, and conducted the Oregon City College and the Clackamas