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Balch. Wauna Point is on the Columbia River Highway between Tanner Creek and Eagle Creek. The highest point of the bluff near the river is about 2500 feet in elevation.

WAUNEKA Point, Multnomah County. This point is just south of the Columbia River Highway between McCord Creek and Moffett Creek. It bears the Indian name of a locality on the south bank of the Columbia River west of Bonneville.

WAVERLY LAKE, Linn County. This lake is not large, but it has a pleasing aspect. It is just east of Albany, and came into being largely because of the construction of the grades of old and the new locations of the Pacific Highway East. It lies between the two alignments and is an attractive feature of the locality. It was named Waverly Lake at the suggestion of Charles Childs, well-known Linn County resident.

WAWA CREEK, Clatsop County. Wawa Creek is a small tributary to Youngs River about a mile south of Youngs River Falls. Wawa is the Chinook jargon word for talk and may have been applied to the stream because the water makes a noise flowing over the gravel.

WEAVER CREEK, Douglas County. This stream flows into South Myrtle Creek. It bears the name of a prominent pioneer family, sev. eral members of which settled in various parts of Douglas County.

WEAVER GULCH, Marion County. Weaver Gulch lies just east of Pacific Highway East, a mile north of Looney Butte. It was named for David Weaver, who took up a donation land claim nearby.

WEB, Yamhill County. This station, northeast of Newberg, was named by consolidating the initials of W. E. Burke, a well-known politician of Portland, who owned land nearby. The station was not in service in 1940.

WECOMA, Lincoln County. John Gill in his Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, 1909, says that wecoma is the jargon word for sea. The community of Wecoma is in the north part of Lincoln County, overlooking the ocean.

WEDDERBURN, Curry County. Wedderburn was established by R. D. Hume, a prominent Pacific Coast business man, who had fishing interests at the mouth of Rogue River. He named the community for an ancestral home in Scotland. Literally, Wedderburn means Sheep Creek. Wedder is an old form of wether, and burn is of course a stream or brook.

WEEKLY, Douglas County. A post office named Weekly was established on the Coos County list on September 24, 1883, but about the same time it was moved to the Douglas County list and there it remained until it was discontinued February 25, 1884. Smith Baily was the only postmaster. All the evidence available is to the effect that the office was at the west edge of Douglas County, probably about twenty miles west of Roseburg on the Roseburg-Coos Bay stage road. The Weekly family was well known, especially in Coos County and some members were interested in the construction of the road. It is probable that Weekly post office was at or near the place called Reston, a stage station on the road and a post office from 1890 to 1934. Edmond E. Weekly was the first postmaster at Reston and was the proprietor of the station.

WEEKLY CREEK, Coos County. The correct spelling of this name is Weekly and not Weakly, as sometimes written. The stream is a tribu