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named the community, he started Halls Ferry across Willamette River. James A. O'Neal built a warehouse in Buena Vista, the first mercantile establishment, about 1850. Later one of Reason Hall's sons started another Halls Ferry north of Independence. Buena Vista is Spanish for beautiful view or good view.

BUFFALO, Lake County. Buffalo was a post office in the northeast part of the county, just northwest of the center of township 27 south, range 21 east, about a dozen miles east of Christmas Lake. It was established April 11, 1913, with Samuel W. Stanton first of four postmasters. The office was discontinued June 29, 1918. A news item in the Lake County Examiner, Lakeview, February 13, 1947, says that the office was named because a nearby juniper tree was so shaped that it looked like a buffalo. The story is credited to S. V. Carroll, well-known resident of the county.

BUFORD CREEK, Wallowa County. This stream rises in Oregon a little north of Flora, and flows northward into Washington, where it drains into Grande Ronde River. It was named for Park Buford, a pioncer settler nearby. The locality has become important because Buford Canyon will be used for the new highway being built from Enterprise to Lewiston. Part of the Buford Creek section has already been graded. Park Buford is reported to have died as the result of rattlesnake bite, which he received while reaching under his cabin trying to find a pup.

BUG BUTTE, Klamath County. On March 1, 1926, L. D. Arnold of the Indian Field Service wrote the USBGN from Klamath Agency as follows: "Bug Butte, not Big Butte, is a newly coined name for the butte two miles southeast of Council Butte is sections 24 and 25. It has been so named because bark beetles have in the past five years killed nearly all the pine trees." This insect is the western pine beetle, Dendroctonus brevicomis. See Essig's Insects of Western North America, page 514, and news article in Bend Bulletin, July 14, 1927.

BUGBY HOLE, Clatsop County. Bugby Hole is the name of a very deep place in the Columbia River about midway between Wauna and Bradwood, close under the precipitous cliffs to the west of the stream. There is a railway flag stop nearby known as Bugby Hole. In September, 1943, Seth F. Michael of the U. S. District Engineer office in Portland wrote the compiler that Bugby Hole was named for an earlyday settler who carried on some logging operations in the vicinity. Bugby Hole has a depth of over 100 feet at low water and is remarkable on that account.

BULL MOUNTAIN, Washington County. This mountain is situated about three miles southwest of Tigard and has an elevation of 711 feet, G. W. Tefft of Beaverton told the writer in 1927 that it was named for a band of wild cattle that ranged on the hill in pioneer days. These cattle were gradually killed off with the exception of one bull and thus the descriptive name was attached to the hill in question.

BULL OF THE Woods, Marion County. This peak, elevation 5510 feet, is in the northeast part of the county but a short distance from the Clackamas County line. It was named for a nearby mining claim or prospect.

BULL RUN LAKE. Clackamas and Multnomah counties. Will G. Steel is authority for the statement that the Klickitat Indian name for Bull Run Lake was Gohabedikt, meaning Loon Lake. It is not surprising that such a name was not used by white men. The lake undoubtedly received its present name from Bull Run River, not vice versa. The compiler has