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with Jesse Bradeen continuing as postmaster. See under FRENCHGLEN.

SOMERS CREEK, Wallowa County. This is a tributary of Snake River in the east part of the county. It was named for Frank P. Somers, who ran stock near this creek for many years.

SONNY, Hood River County. This station, west of Hood River, bears an unusual name. It was formerly called Mitchell, but owing to confusion with another place in the state of the same name, it was decided by railroad officials to make a change. The owners of the Little Boy ranch, just west of Mitchell Point, tried to have the station named Little Boy, but this was not acceptable to the railroad because it was awkward in telegraphy. The name Sonny was finally selected as the next best thing. SoosAP PEAK, Clackamas County. This peak, elevation 4693 feet, lies east of North Fork Molalla River. Dee Wright, for many years a packer in the Cascade Range, told the compiler that it was named for Soosap, a well-known Indian of Oregon City, who occasionally hunted in the neighborhood of the mountain. This Indian was also known as Joe Suisap and Joseph Andrews, and was part Klickitat and part Molalla, according to Wright. Soosap died January 18, 1916, and his obituary is printed in the Oregon City Enterprise, January 21, 1916. He was 61 vears old at the time of his death. Soosap Peak was at one time known as Arquette Point, for a settler who lived nearby, but the name has not persisted.

SOUTHBEACH, Lincoln County. This is a descriptive name for a community near the south side of Yaquina Bay. It has been so known for more than a half century, although the post office was not established until May 18, 1916. Harborton is the name of the place on the official plat, but that name is not in general use. Margaret F. Conrad was the first postmaster.

SOUTH CANYONVILLE, Douglas County. Under the heading CANYON VILLE mention is made of a place called South Canyonville. South Canyonville was the name used for a locality, but not for a community, about ten miles south of Canyonville, in the Cow Creek Valley where the road from Canyonville first reaches that valley. It was at the Hardy Elliff place, later called Johns. It was at this locality that pioneer settlers "forted up" at Camp Elliff at the time of the Indian wars of the '50s. South Canyonville was not a post office, but the use of the words as a locality name made it necessary to use the name North Canyonville for the post office at Canyonville, ten miles to the north. The post office name North Canyonville was changed to Canyonville in 1892, as by that time South Canyonville was no longer used as a place name, South DICKEY PEAK, Clackamas County. This peak, elevation about 5300 feet, lies in the Clackamas drainage basin in the extreme south part of the county. North Dickey Peak and Dickey Creek are nearby. These geographic features were named for J. K. Dickey, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Oregon from Missouri in 1845 and settled in a small valley near the present site of Molalla, in the spring of 1846. He hunted a great deal near Collawash River, and it is thought that government surveyors named the features for him because of this fact. This information was furnished the compiler of these notes in October, 1927, by J. O. Dickev, a son of J. K. Dickey.

SOUTH INLET, Coos County, South Inlet post office was established April 18, 1912, with Lillian Saunders first and only postmaster. The