in traver hills, a bhur spri ory, there was a time when it was an important post. Several officers who later achieved prominence in the military establishment were at one time in command at Fort Hoskins or were stationed there. Captain C. C. Augur was there in the late '50s. He was later a major-general. Captain Frederick T. Dent, later a brigadier-general, was commandant at Fort Hoskins in 1861. He was a brother of Mrs. U. S. Grant. General P. H. Sheridan in his Personal Memoirs, volume I, page 97, says "I spent many happy months at Fort Hoskins." For additional information, see under Fort HOSKINS. Hot LAKE, Union County. This is a steaming mineral lake at Hot Lake station and post office near Union. The name is quite descriptive, although the compiler does not know when it was first used. On August 7, 1812, Robert Stuart and companions traveling from Astoria to St. Louis, visited Hot Lake. As far as known this was the first time it was seen by white men. Washington Irving's Astoria describes the event in the following words: "In traversing this [Grande Ronde] plain, they passed, close to the skirts of the hills, a great pool of water, three hundred yards in circumference, fed by a sulphur spring, about ten feet in diameter, boiling up in one corner. The vapor from this pool was extremely noisome, and tainted the air for a considerable distance. The place was much frequented by elk, which were found in considerable numbers in the adjacent mountains, and their horns, shed in the springtime, were strewed in every direction around the pond." See also Discovery of the Oregon Trail, Robert Stuart's Narrative, edited by P. A. Rollins, page 78.
HOT SPRINGS, Lake County. Hot Springs was one of the earliest post offices in what is now Lake County, and it was established in December, 1871, with William Greenman first postmaster. According to J. O. Jewett of the Lake County Examiner-Tribune, who gathered some data for the compiler in October, 1945, the office was at or near the Abram Tenbrook ranch about five or six miles south of Lakeview, approximately at the present site of the Ned Sherlock ranch. The office was named for the numerous hot springs on the east side of Goose Lake in the vicinity of the Tenbrook ranch. Abram Tenbrook became postmaster in December, 1872, and Robert H. Dunlap took the office in April, 1873. Charles Hagerhorst was postmaster at two different times. On September 24, 1875, the name of the office was changed to Goose Lake, and the establishment was closed on August 28, 1877. This was probably due to the fact that offices had been established at Lakeview and at New Pine Creek in December, 1876. Both of these places drew business from the older office. John Work in Fur Brigade to the Bonaventura mentions these springs under date of October 22, 1832.
HOULTON, Columbia County. Houlton post office was situated at Saint Helens railroad station. The main town of Saint Helens is about a mile from the station. Houlton was originally called Milton. For information about this see under Milton CREEK. The post office was established about 1890, and inasmuch as there was already a post office in Umatilla County by the name Milton, it was necessary to find a new name for the Columbia County community. B.W. Plummer was the first postmaster, and he recommended the name Houlton for Houlton, Maine, his former home. The scheme of having post offices with different names serving the same community has never been satisfactory and it never
