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BOULDER CREEK, Marion County. Boulder Creek flows into the North Santiam River east of Detroit, Boulder Creek was named in 1874 by T. W. Davenport of the Marion County road surveying party. See

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BOUR, Josephine County. The mining locality called Bour was given the family name of David, John and George Bour who were engaged in placer operations shortly after the turn of the century. Bour post office was established in May, 1906, with Geneva M. Bour first postmaster. The office was discontinued in February, 1907. The Bour placer was situated on Illinois River about midway between the mouths of Deer Creek and Josephine Creek, a little downstream from Kerby. Nobody seems to know whether the post office was ever in actual operation but merely authorized. George Bour, living near Kerby in 1948, is of the opinion that the post office never was in service.

BOURBON, Sherman County. Bourbon is a station on the Union Pacific Railroad, originally the Columbia Southern, about seven or eight miles southeast of Grass Valley. The station was established for a wheat shipping point. Giles French of Moro wrote the compiler about this name on June 1, 1946, as follows: "The name originated directly from that of the famous early-day tipple, which has been preserved to this time and is, in normal times, in conflict with Scotch and Rye. Bourbon you will recognize as the drink of the frontier, the product of good American corn, the elixir of the common man. Some say that when the first construction crew went to Bourbon to stake out the site of the first warehouse they found a bottle that once contained Bourbon and named the place for that reason. Another story is that the crew built the warehouse a little askew of the railroad and the reason for such lack of constructive ability was laid to a superabundance of Bourbon. Bourbon attained some local fame during World War I because Charles (Puss) Schwartz, an elderly bachelor, retired from farming, always gave his occupation as an employee of the 'shipyards at Bourbon.' Even yet Grass Valley residents use it as an occasional excuse for their vagrancy." The compiler thinks that Mr. French is well acquainted with the subject and that this account should be given great weight. It is pleasing to know that these historic names are being preserved in Sherman County.

BOURNE, Baker County. Bourne was named for Jonathan Bourne, Jr., of Portland, who was at one time interested in eastern Oregon mines. He was United States senator from Oregon from 1907 to 1913. He was born in New Bedford, Mass., February 23, 1855, and graduated from Harvard in 1877. He came to Portland in the following year and in 1880 was admitted to the Oregon bar. After his term in the Senate, he lived in Washington, D. C., and died there September 1, 1940, Bourne post office was established in March, 1895, and discontinued May 31, 1927. Bowden CRATER, Malheur County. Bowden Crater is a characteristic volcanic vent in the south-central part of the county about six miles northeast of the old Bowden ranch on Rattlesnake Creek. The crater got its name from the ranch, and the title was applied by Dr. Israel C. Russell of the United States Geological Survey about 1902. See USGS 1, Ben in was estat 3. Cover the placa little bility, Waame ** sout bac alexco ser lille Dufour

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