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transferred their ranching operations to eastern Lake County, and Shirk post office was reestablished in that area September 10, 1903, with Olive G. Shirk postmaster. This office was closed to Cedarville, California, May 5, 1905.

SHIRTTAIL GULCH, Baker County. Shirttail Gulch is north of Rye Valley. J. Tracy Barton, in OHQ, volume XLIII, page 228, gives a glowing account of the origin of the name. In 1869, John Richardson, a rancher in Rye Valley, went foraging about five miles for a load of wood. He unhitched his team in a likely spot and began to assemble the load, when suddenly he was surprised by the singing of bullets from the guns of a band of rambling Snake Indians. Richardson abandoned his equipment and ran for home. His speed was so great that his shirttail fanned out behind him and even the jackrabbits were amazed. The place has been called Shirttail Gulch since that episode.

SHITIKE CREEK, Jefferson County. This stream is in the south part of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. It heads in a magnificent gorge cutting into the Cascade Range north of Jefferson Park. The stream is mentioned in the Pacific Railroad Surveys Reports, under date of 1855, as Chit-tike Creek, but the meaning of the name is not given. The Klamath Indians used the name Sidaikti to indicate the general locality of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, and also the stream mentioned above. The compiler has been unable to get a satisfactory translation of the name. Indians indicate that it is a very old locality name.

SHONQUEST RANCH, Deschutes County. The name of this pioneer ranch on the old road south of Bend is frequently misspelled.

SHOTPOUCH CREEK, Benton and Lincoln counties. According to Jerry E. Henkle, Benton County pioneer, Shotpouch Creek was named in 1856 when a party of Benton County settlers was exploring the Coast Range looking for grazing land. George Knowlton, a member of the party, lost a shotpouch near the stream, which was named on that account. This story was reported to the compiler in 1937 by Mark Phinny of Philomath, who interviewed Henkle about Benton County history. Shotpouch Creek flows northwest from Marys Peak.

SHOWALTER CREEK, Lane County. This stream is in the Mohawk Valley west of Mabel. The creek bears the name of W. B. Showalter, who built a cabin on its banks in early days and operated as a hunter in the locality.

SHUCK MOUNTAIN, Coos County, Shuck Mountain, a ridge with a maximum elevation of nearly a thousand feet, lies southeast of Coquille in the big bend between Coquille River and North Fork Coquille River. The mountain was named for Samuel Shuck, who came to Oregon in 1863 and settled in Coos County in 1872. See Dodge's Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, supplement page 90.

SHUTLER, Gilliam County, Shutler is a place in Alkali Canyon about eight miles south of Arlington. Shutler Flat is in the same locality. In April, 1947, Mark V. Weatherford of Albany wrote as follows: "Schuttler Flat was named for the Schuttler wagon. The first plowing was done on the flat by W. W. Weatherford and A. H. Weatherford in 1880, and the first crop was raised in 1881. . . . Most of the early settlers moved from Willow Creek to Schuttler Flat and this movement was coincident with the building of the railroad along the Columbia River.