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confused with Ruby, a station in Multnomah County, so the change was made.

TALENT, Jackson County. This place was named in the early '80s by A. P. Talent, who platted the town. Talent suggested the name of Wagner, but postal authorities gave the place his own name. He came to Oregon about 1876 from Tennessee. In pioneer days the place was known as Wagner Creek for a family of early settlers.

TALLMAN, Linn County. This station northwest of Lebanon was named for a nearby settler, James Tallman.

TALLOWBOX MOUNTAIN, Jackson County. Tallowbox Mountain, elevation 5021 feet, is a prominent point in the Siskiyou Mountains a little south of Applegate. Thomas V. Williams of Medford has submitted a story about the name, which he says may be fact or fiction, but in either event it is the best available. About 1880 some hunters in the locality shot more deer than they were able to get home with facilities available. They wished to save the tallow for future use, so they packed it in a box to keep it from birds and animals and fastened the box up in a tree. The story is to the effect that the tallow was never salvaged and the box gave the name to the mountain.

TAMARACK, Umatilla County. Tamarack was the name given a post office in the Blue Mountains, about fifteen miles east of Weston on the road to Elgin. This office was established June 2, 1896, with Lewis A. Rambo first postmaster. It was finally closed after the turn of the century, but the writer does not know the exact date. In the Blue Mountains the name tamarack is generally given to the western larch, Larix occidentalis, which is not a true tamarack at all. There are many of these western larch trees near the locality of the Tamarack post office and that is how it got its name.

TAMARACK CREEK, Wallowa County. This creek is in township 5 north, range 45 east. Other geographic features in Oregon are also named for the tamarack, which is correctly, the western larch, Larix occidentalis. This tree has a variety of common names. It grows in many places in Oregon, particularly in the Blue and Wallowa mountains.

TANDY BAY, Klamath County. This bay is at the southwest end of Crescent Lake. In 1925 the Forest Service made a detailed map of Crescent Lake, and at the suggestion of Lewis A. McArthur, this bay was named for William Tandy, who was a member of the pioneer road exploration party sent out by the state in 1852. For information about this exploration see Scott's History of the Oregon Country, volume IV, page 8.

TANDY CREEK, Lake County. Tandy Creek is south of Lakeview and flows westward into Goose Lake. It is about four miles north of the Oregon-California state line. William and Robert Tandy, pioneer settlers in the Willamette Valley, moved into the Goose Lake Valley about 1869, and Tandy Creek was named for some member of the family. The style Tansy Creek is wrong.

TANGENT, Linn County. This station on the Southern Pacific line south of Albany was named because of the long stretch of straight track to the north and south. This tangent is over twenty miles long. Tanks, Umauilla County. This is a summer settlement near the summit of the Blue Mountains on the road between Walla Walla and Elgin. It was named for water tanks used by freight laulers, and not by