with Mrs. Clara P. Law first postmaster. It is reported that there has been some lumbering activity at this place. The post office has been discontinued but the compiler does not know the date. The place called Booth in western Douglas County should not be confused with Booth post office in the upper Cow Creek valley, which was named for Winfield S. Booth. That post office was in service from 1907 to 1914. It had previously been called Starvout and in 1914 the name of the office was changed to Azalea.
BOOTH, Josephine County. Booth was named for its postmaster, Henry E. Booth. The office was established January 22, 1897, and was closed December 31, 1898. An old map shows the place on Rogue River a few miles northwest of Grants Pass and about the same distance southwest of Merlin. The writer does not know the reason for the establishment. Booth Hill, Hood River County. Named for George Booth, an early settler in the Hood River Valley, who is said to have set out the first commercial orchard in the valley and who sent 20 boxes of Newtowns to the Buffalo fair in 1901 and received a gold medal and sold the apples for $7 a box. It is reported that Booth settled near the foot of the hill in 1885. For many years travelers hesitated to attempt the muddy road up Booth Hill in the winter, but the Mount Hood Loop Highway has solveď the difficulty with some change in location from the old road. The name Booth Hill is now applied to the butte or hill that separates Hood River Valley from the Parkdale district.
BORING, Clackamas County. The town of Boring was named for W. H. Boring, an old resident of the neighborhood. The district was known to old settlers as the Boring neighborhood, and in 1903 a townsite was platted and called Boring Junction. The Post Office Department and the builders of the interurban railway adopted Boring as the official name of the community.
BOSLEY BUTTE, Curry County. Bosley Butte is in the southwest part of the county. F. S. Moore of Gold Beach informed the compiler that this peak was named for Julia Bosley, a young woman, who in early days was a member of a party that made a trip to the large prairies lying south of and extending across to the east side of the peak. Miss Bosley was one of the few of the party to ascend to the top of the mountain and it was named in her honor.
BOSTON Mills, Linn County. About 1858 R. C. Finley and associates established a community and grist mill on Calapooya River about a mile and a half east of the present town of Shedd. They called the place Boston Mills, presumably because one or more of the proprietors came from the Massachusetts city. A small butte nearby was named Bunker Hill. The community became a stage stop and made a little growth. Boston Mills post office was established on September 22, 1869, with William Simmons postmaster. Efforts to get the railroad through the place were unsuccessful and Boston Mills began to decline. The railroad was built through Shedd and the post office was moved to that place and the name changed to Shedds on August 28, 1871. Shedds post office was changed to Shedd in 1915. BosweLL SPRINGS, Douglas County. Boswell Springs are situated just west of the Pacific Highway at a point about three miles south of Drain. They were named for the owner, Captain Benjamin D. Boswell. Boswell -petak of the South -road rother 300, ght on was Dregtie idol
