above McKay Creek. Cabbage Hill School is about a mile south of the Oregon Trail. The geography of this locality is shown on the USGS topographic map of the Pendleton quadrangle. In March, 1946, the compiler received a letter from Mrs. J. E. Jones of Elgin containing a statement by her uncle, G. L. Dunn of Gibbon, about the naming of Cabbage Hill. Dunn says that in the fall of 1897 he was herding sheep on the hill above North Fork McKay Creek and he named the locality Cabbage Hill because of a prominent cabbage patch near the top of the slope. This name was soon adopted by the local residents and has been in use ever since. Dunn says the cabbages were on land farmed by one Huderman.
Cabin Creek, Douglas County. This stream flows into Calapooya Creek near Oakland. Both the Southern Pacific Company line and the Pacific Highway follow Cabin Creek between Oakland and Rice Hill. It is said that the Rev. J. A. Cornwall built a cabin on this stream in the fall of 1846, in which he and his family spent the following winter. This is believed to have been the first cabin built in Douglas County by citizens of the United States, and the stream was named for it.
Cable Cove, Baker County. Cable Cove is well up in the Blue Mountains in the northwest part of the county. Cable Cove is drained by Silver Creek. These names were applied as the result of mining activities long ago. Cable Cove was named for a man who used that spelling. The compiler does not know his first name but he was prominent in mining development. It is said that other members of the famliy spelled the name Cabel. For a time there was a post office in the vicinity of Cable Cove which was operated with the name Cableville. Cableville post office was established October 24, 1901, with Thomas Costello the first of five postmasters. The office was discontinued in May, 1909.
Cache Creek, Wallowa County. This creek flows into Snake River in township 6 north, range 47 east, in the extreme northeast of Oregon. It was named by A. C. Smith, a pioneer of the Wallowa Valley. He and some companions were scouting in the neighborhood in the '70s and found Indian caches on a bar at the mouth of the stream.
Cahill Creek, Clackamas County. This is a short stream that flows northward into Beaver Creek about two miles east of New Era. It bears the name of Enos Cahill, who was born in Ohio in 1844, a Union soldier in the Civil War and later a homesteader on the banks of this stream. He held a number of public offices in Clackamas County and died in 1913. He was favorably remembered in the neighborhood, and in 1941 a group of former students of Leland School asked to have his name applied to this stream which has its source in a number of springs on the Cahill homestead. The name has been adopted by USBGN.
Cake, Malheur County. Cake post office was in the extreme north part of the county, almost on the watershed between Burnt River and Malheur River, and at the head of Mormon Basin. The office was established to serve the headquarters of the Rainbow mine, and the mine itself was just over the line in Baker County. Cake was the name of a Portland business man who was interested in the development of the property. Cake post office was established February 3, 1917, with Isaac Blumauer first postmaster. Carl H. Connet was the second postmaster, and he wrote from Albany in August, 1946, giving some information about the place. The office was closed in March, 1920. It was reestablished June 21, 1922, with the name Rainbow Mine, but the compiler does not know the clos-
