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land owner. This was rejected because of confusion with Parkerville nearby. Mrs. T. R. Coon, a member of a pioneer Silverton family, has written the compiler that Polly Crandall Coon Price actually selected the name of Silverton. She came to Oregon in 1852, following her husband, T. L. Coon, who had arrived shortly before. Her husband died January 10, 1854, before securing title to his donation land claim. Mrs. Coon remained on the land and secured the title and sold town lots, naming the place Silverton. This was probably in the fall of 1854 or early in 1855, as the Silverton post office was established July 16, 1855, with Charles Miller postmaster. Mrs. Coon married Stephen Price in September, 1855. Silvies River, Grant and Harney counties. Silvies River was named for Antoine Sylvaille, who, with a party of trappers, was sent into central Oregon by Peter Skene Ogden in 1826. See OHQ, volume X, page 354, and volume XI, page 202. Sylvaille, on his return from central Oregon, reported finding a stream very rich with beaver, to which the name Sylvailles River was at once given. The Arrowsmith maps published between 1830 and 1850 showed the stream as Sylvailles River. In the Ogden journals, under date of October 8, 1826, mention is made of the fact that Sylvaille discovered this river. On November 1, Ogden mentions the river as flowing into a lake, now known as Malheur Lake. Dr. Robert C. Clark, in OHQ, volume XXXIII, page 113, says that the party under Major Enoch Steen, 1860, named this stream Cricket River, because of the swarms of insects. That name did not supplant the older name, Sylvailles River or its anglicized form, Silvies River, which had been in general use for many years. Silvies post office was established near this stream in the extreme north part of Harney County in February, 1892, with Adelaide Cross first postmaster. The office was closed in July, 1906, but was reestablished in 1915 in the south part of Grant County.

SIMAX BAY, Klamath County. This bay is at the northern end of Crescent Lake. It is reported that the word simax is an Indian expression meaning landing place. The compiler has been unable to find the word in the Klamath Indian language, or any other language for that matter.

SIMMONS DRAW, Wallowa County. Simmons Draw is east of Maxville. It was formerly known as Deadhorse Draw because a horse was drowned therein.

SIMNASHO, Wasco County. This is a post office on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Pierce Mays is authority for the information that the original Indian word was pronounced as though spelled Sinimassa. Warm Springs Indians have corroborated this and inform the compiler that the word means thorn bush.

SINAMOX, Wasco County. A station on the Oregon Trunk Railway named with the Chinook jargon word for seven, since it was the seventh station from the north end of the line up Deschutes River. Sinamox post office was established January 2, 1914. The office was closed December 31, 1914, with papers to Moody.

SINK, Lake County. Sink post office, in the extreme north part of the county, took its name because it was near the sink of Peters Creek. It was established in April, 1911, and operated until August, 1920. Anna M. Long was the first postmaster.

SINK, Sherman County. Sink railroad station was named for George