well-known geographic names in northwest Umatilla County. The station is on the Union Pacific Railroad on the south bank of Columbia River about ten miles east of Umatilla. The names are all descriptive. A post office named Arroyo was established in these parts on July 15, 1878, with Clinton V. B. Reeder postmaster. The name of the office was changed to Cold Springs on April 2, 1880, with Andrew C. Bryan postmaster. This office was short lived, and was closed probably in 1883. Arroyo is a Spanish word meaning rivulet or small stream, and in western United States the term is frequently used for intermittent creeks or dry watercourses. The name Arroyo was doubtless suggested by Cold Springs Wash.
COLEBROOK BUTTE, Curry County. This butte has an elevation of 2046 feet and is about ten miles south of Port Orford and two miles east of the Pacific Ocean. Euchre Creek flows around its eastern and southern slopes. It was named for a pioneer settler, F. W. Colebrook, who located a homestead nearby about 1860. Colebrook was born in Scotland October 13, 1816, and came to Oregon about 1858. He died May 21, 1889.
COLEMAN CREEK, Jackson County. Coleman Creek drains an area south of Medford. It bears the name of M. H. Coleman, a pioneer of 1853, who was the first settler on the stream.
COLEMAN MOUNTAIN, Harney County. This mountain and a nearby creek were named for a stockman who lived in that vicinity. These features are about 35 miles east of Burns.
COLES VALLEY, Douglas County. This valley was named for Dr. James Cole, the first settler therein. It is along the Umpqua River northwest of Roseburg. Dr. Cole established his home in the valley in 1851. See University of Oregon Extension Monitor for September, 1924. For information about the Cole family, see story by Fred Lockley in the Oregon Journal, August 17, 1937.
COLESTIN, Jackson County. The Coles were pioneer settlers in the southern part of the county. Steel says that Colestin was named for Rufus Cole in 1885, the one who then owned the nearby springs.
COLLARD LAKE, Lane County. This lake is about three miles north of Florence. It was named for Roy L. Collard, who took up a homestead near the lake.
COLLEGE CREEK, Wallowa County. College Creek is a short tributary of Imnaha River in the eastern part of the county. A. N. Adams, better known as Sam, named this stream. He was a Civil War veteran, and pioneer of Wallowa Valley. He applied the name after a school had been established nearby. He was a rancher.
COLLEGE CREST, Lane County. In the 1850s there was an educational institution in Lane County called Columbia College. It was situated in the south part of Eugene and the name of the institution has been perpetuated in a geographic name College Crest. This term is applied to an upland, most of which is in section 6, township 18 south, range 3 west. College Crest is not near the University of Oregon and was not named for that institution. In 1909 J. O. Story and Wesley Whitbeck filed a plat for College Crest but whether they originated the name the compiler does not know. About that time Fred S. Williams, Jr., settled in the area and in 1913 applied for a post office to be called College Crest. This office was duly established June 13, 1913, and Williams was appointed postmaster, but he asserted that he had never received any notice from the Post Office Department and did not know that the office had been es-
