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genera's ship 2 Col. Of construo feet and fought with gallantry through the Mexican War. He explored the west from 1832-5, and visited many parts of Oregon and may have been the first white man to go into the Wallowa country. He died in 1878. For details of his life and travels see Scott's History of the Oregon Country, volume I, pages 170 and 297. The locality of Bonneville has become nationally known as the site of the Bonneville Dam, construction of which was started in September, 1933, by the U. S. Army Engineers. The main features are a dam, a powerhouse, a ship lock and fishways. The dam is across the main or north channel of the Columbia River and is 1090 feet long. The powerhouse is built across the channel south of Bradford Island and contains generators with a total rated capacity of 518,400 kilowatts. The ship lock is south of the powerhouse and is 76 feet wide by 500 feet long. At normal river stage the lift is 59 feet. For details of construction and equipment of Bonneville Dam. see article by Col. C. R. Moore, Oregon Blue Book, 1941-1942, page 191. In 1925 the USBGN, at the suggestion of J. Neilson Barry of Portland, applied the name of Mount Bonneville to a conspicuous peak about three miles south of Wallowa Lake, previously known as Middle Mountain.

BONNEY BUTTE, Hood River County. This butte is in the extreme southwest part of the county, and has an elevation of 5593 feet. Just east of it is Bonney Meadow. These two features were named for a Wasco County stockman, Augustus A. Bonney. He was born in Marion County, Oregon, April 14, 1849, graduated from Willamette University in 1871, and settled in Tygh Valley in 1875.

BOONES FERRY, Clackamas County. Alphonso Boone brought his family to Oregon in 1846 by the Applegate route. He was a grandson of Daniel Boone. About 1847, his son Jesse V. Boone, began to operate a ferry across the Willamette River just east of the present site of the Oregon Electric Railway bridge at Wilsonville. A road leading south from Portland to this ferry was, and still is, known as Boones Ferry road. Another son, Alphonso D. Boone, became associated with his brother Jesse in the ferry. Jesse was killed in 1871. Chloe Donnelly Boone, daughter of Alphonso Boone, married George L. Gurry, one time governor of Oregon, for whom Curry County was named. For post office history, see under WILSONVILLE. Booneville CHANNEL, Benton County. This is a branch of the Willamette River flowing on the west side of John Smith Island and Kiger Island, a few miles south of Corvallis. Early maps of the Willamette Valley show the community of Booneville near this point and it is presumed that the channel was named for this community. The name should not be spelled Boonesville.

BOOTH, Douglas County. Booth is a station on the Southern Pacific Company line from Eugene to Coos Bay. It is near the extreme south end of Siltcoos Lake. In June, 1948, Mrs. F. K. Davis of Eugene, daughter of the late Robert A. Booth, wrote the compiler that this station was named for her father. He was one of the most prominent western Oregon lumber men and was a founder of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company of Eugene and elsewhere. Mrs. Davis wrote that R. A. Booth and A. C. Dixon of Eugene bought an island in Siltcoos Lake and that was the reason the railroad station was named Booth. The railroad station was named prior to 1918 but the compiler does not know just when. Booth post office was established near the railroad station in September, 1934,