origing is Ray Gold. next station to mpany, because caused nued in operations96, with Schuyler.C. Wolf Creek. Lower Table Rock, and named the place Gold Ray. This name caused confusion on the line of the Southern Pacific Company, because of the close proximity of Gold Hill, the next station to the west. The railroad name for Gold Ray is Ray Gold. The California Oregon Power Company uses the original arrangement of the words.
GOLDEN, Josephine County. Golden post office was named for the mining activity of a locality a few miles southeast of Wolf Creek. The office was established January 10, 1896, with Schuyler C. Ruble first postmaster, and continued in operation until March 31, 1920. The place was on Coyote Creek and had quartz and stamp mills.
GOLDEN Falls, Coos County. These falls are in Glen Creek Valley northeast of Allegany. In March, 1929, S. B. Cathcart of Marshfield wrote the compiler that they were discovered by Frank Ross and soon thereafter they were visited by Dr. C. B. Golden, first Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Oregon, E. A. Anderson and Thomas Hirst. At that time they were named Golden Falls in compliment to Dr. Golden. Some time later other falls were found on a stream nearby, and the names Silver Falls and Silver Creek were applied in contradistinction to Golden Falls in the belief that the first falls were named for the metal, which is not a fact, according to Cathcart. Goldson, Lane County. According to information received by the writer from Seth W. Harpole, postmaster at Goldson in January, 1926, the place was named for the first postmaster, J. M, Goldson. The post office was established about 1891.
GOLTRA, Linn County. Goltra is a station between Albany and Lebanon, named for W. H. Goltra, a pioneer settler of the vicinity. Gooch, Linn County. This station, about two miles west of Mill City, was named for Fred Gooch, who once ran a sawmill there.
GOODFELLOW LAKES, Clackamas County. These lakes are in township 2 south, range 7 east. They were named for one Goodfellow, a clothing manufacturer in Minneapolis, who owned land in this part of the county.
GOODPASTURE ISLAND, Lane County. This island is off the east bank of the Willamette River just north of Eugene. It was not named for succulent forage, but for William and Thomas Goodpasture, who married the daughters of Jacob Gillespie. The two wives inherited the island as part of their father's estate. See under GILLESPIE BUTTE.
GOODRICH CREEK, Baker County. Goodrich Creek rises on the east slopes of Elkhorn Peak in the Blue Mountains west of Baker and flows eastward to join Pine Creek near the locality called Wingville. The stream was named in the mining days for A. C. Goodrich, who came into eastern Oregon from the mining regions of the Sierra Nevada with experience as a surveyor and in ditch construction. He made a survey for the Auburn Ditch and had much to do with the construction of the conduit. For details see Hiatt's Thirty-one Years in Baker County, chapter IV. The Auburn Ditch reached the headwaters of Goodrich Creek.
GOOSE CREEK, Lane County. This little stream flows into McKenzie River from the north, just west of McKenzie Bridge. Scott Taylor of McKenzie Bridge has furnished the compiler with the history of the name. About 1870, Mr. and Mrs. John Sims were traveling eastward along the road on their way to have Thanksgiving dinner with Uncle George Frissell. Mrs. Sims had her baby in one arm and a dressed goose
