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 of which rise with indescribable beauty and grandeur, that range which, from its azure-like appearance, has been called the 'Blue Mountains.

, Klamath County. Bly was a word of the Klamath Indians meaning "up" or "high." According to Captain O. C. Applegate of Klamath Falls, it meant the old village Up Sprague River from Yainax. White people appropriated the name and applied it to a town east of the Klamath Indian Reservation. A. S. Gatschet in his Dictionary of the Klamath Language (U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C, 1890) gave the word as p'lai, and stated that it meant among other things the Sprague River Valley and sometimes simply the Sprague River as distinguished from the lower country along the Williamson River. P'laikni were people living high up, or along the upper reaches of Sprague River. P'laikni was also used to mean heavenly, or the Christian God. Bly has an elevation of 4356 feet.

, Morrow County. Boardman is a station on the line of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company not far from the Columbia River. It was named for Sam Boardman, a well-known resident of that part of Oregon. Boardman has an elevation of 250 feet.

, Lane County. This mountain is one of the summits of the Calapooya Mountains, a spur of the Cascade Range, and is in what is generally referred to as the Bohemia mining district. It was named for a wandering mountaineer and prospector, "Bohemia" Johnson, who was supposed to have been born in Bohemia.

, Jackson County. Bolt is on the south side of Rogue River about six miles east of the west boundary of Jackson County, at the point where the Pacific Highway crosses Foots Creek. This place together with Bolt Mountain on the Applegate Riyer about seven miles southwest of Grants Pass was named for John Bolt, a member of the firm of Kubli and Bolt, pioneer packers and merchants of southern Oregon.