French Prairie for la biche, the female deer, although French-Canadians frequently used the word to mean elk. In the evening of November 12, 1890, a Southern Pacific train, bound for California, plunged through the Lake Labish trestle. Five persons were killed and many injured.
LAKE LYTLE, Tillamook County. This is a seashore lake about five miles north of the entrance to Tillamook Bay. It has an intermittent outlet. There was once a post office nearby of the same name. These features were named for E. E. Lytle, a prominent Oregon railroad builder, who, among other things, constructed the Pacific Railway and Navigation Company line from Hillsboro to Tillamook, now owned by the Southern Pacific Company.
LAKE MARR, Lane County. This small pond is about a mile from the Pacific Ocean and five miles north of the Siuslaw River. It was named for Ezra E. Marr, who at one time owned a ranch adjoining the lake. In 1925 it was reported that he was a lighthouse keeper in the state of Washington..
LAKE OF THE WOODs, Klamath County. This is a descriptive name, given because of the dense stand of timber nearby. The lake is about three and a half miles long on the east slope of the Cascade Range, partly fed by a stream rising southeast of Mount McLoughlin. Its elevation is about 4950 feet, and the Dead Indian road between Ashland and Pelican Bay skirts its southern end. In a letter to Will G. Steel, dated October 28, 1925, Captain Oliver C. Applegate of Klamath Falls says that he named Lake of the Woods in 1870 when he was building a road by the lake. He built a cabin at the south end of the lake in that year. A post office called Lake of the Woods was established to serve the area on May 17, 1930, with Fred E. Wahl postmaster. This office was closed August 15, 1931. It was near the north end of the lake. Another office was established July 19, 1941, with the style Lake ( Woods, but the compiler does not know its exact location.
LAKE TIMPANOGAS, Douglas County. This lake, so named on the map of the Diamond Lake quadrangle, is the principal source of Middle Fork Willamette River. The compiler has been informed that the name was applied to the lake in the Cascade Range by J. G. Staack, formerly topographic engineer for the U. S. Geological Survey and later chief topographic engineer. The name was used in 1913-14 when Mr. Staack was mapping the area. It is reported that he found the name while reading in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., apparently in one of the Hall J. Kelley publications. Kelley published a Geographical Sketch of Oregon in Boston in 1830, and in this book it is stated that the Multnomah River, now known as the Willamette, had one of its sources in Lake Timpanogos. This is the name used by Mr. Staack, with slightly different spelling. Timpanogos was an early name for Great Salt Lake, derived from the name of a stream. Fremont says the word means Rock River. See his Report, Washington, 1845, page 273.
LAKECREEK, Jackson County. Lakecreek post office takes its name from Lake Creek, an important stream that flows into Little Butte Creek. Lake Creek post office was established December 10, 1886, with Joseph T. Delk first of a long list of postmasters. In the '90s the Post Office Department had an attack of efficiency, and consolidated the names of a great number of ofhces made up of two words, though for some reason names like New York, San Francisco and Niagara Falls were overlooked. In
