River toll road 1908-1920. The predecessor of this toll road was called the Elk Trail and it was used at a much earlier date. A post office called Boyer was established August 18, 1910, with Mervin O. Boyer first of three postmasters. The compiler is informed that M. O. Boyer was a son of John Boyer and that the post office was in John Boyer's house. It was in the extreme north end of Lincoln County, probably not more than a mile from the county line. This office was discontinued March 31, 1915. At a much later date the name Boyer was applied to a community on the Salmon River Highway in the extreme southeast corner of Tillamook County and about four miles northeast of the former Boyer post office. This little community now called Boyer is about a half mile northeast of the stone monument erected on the highway in 1926 to John and Julia Boyer. It is where the highway crosses Little Nestucca River. Boyer community does not have a post office as this paragraph is written in May, 1948. For information about Salmon River Highway and John Boyer, see Leslie M. Scott's article "Military Beginnings of the Salmon River Highway," OHQ, September, 1934.
BOYLE LAKES, Polk County. These are intermittent ponds about two miles northwest of Rickreall, and they are generally dry in summer. They were named for Dr. James W. Boyle, a pioneer of Oregon, who was born in Virginia in 1815, and came to this state in 1845. Dr. Boyle settled on the land near these lakes in 1850. He married Josephine P. Ford. For additional information about Dr. Boyle, see article by Fred Lockley on editorial page of Oregon Journal, July 27, 1927.
BRACKET MOUNTAIN, Clackamas County. This mountain, elevation 5018 feet, is in township 6 south, range 5 east. It was named by W. B. Osborn, Jr., of the Forest Service, because it resembled a printer's bracket, or brace, placed horizontally with the point up, as follows: +
BRADBURY, Columbia County. This station and a slough in the Columbia River nearby were named for C. A. Bradbury, an early settler. Wilkes shows this slough as Kinak Passage, in an atlas accompanying U. S. Exploring Expedition, volume XXIII, Hydrography, but does not explain the name. The name of the railroad station was later changed to Locoda. For information about C. A. Bradbury, see Fred Lockley's story in the Oregon Journal, April 15, 1945.
BRADEN, Umatilla County. Braden post office was in operation on the extreme north border of the county from March, 1891, to September, 1891. Jennie Braden was the postmaster. The post office was a room in the Braden home, which was on the lower Walla Walla road about four miles north of Milton. The house disappeared some years ago. It was near what was later called the Engel Chapel. It was in section 13, town. ship 6 north, range 45 east. * BRADFORD ISLAND, Multnomah County. This island in the Columbia River has become very well known as a result of the Bonneville Dam. The south end of the dam itself is on the island, and much of the fish ladder structure. The north end of the powerhouse is also on the island. The island was named for Daniel F. and Putnam Bradford, brothers, who were pioneer steamboat operators on the Columbia River. Among other things they rebuilt the portage road at the Cascades in 1856. Later another portage road was built on the south side of the river, and
