munity. Boring is on the Estacada line of the Portland Electric Power Company and has an elevation of 502 feet.
Boulder Creek, Marion County. Boulder Creek flows into the North Santiam River east of Detroit. Boulder Creek was named in 1874 by T. W. Davenport of the Marion County road surveying party. See Oregon Historical Society Quarterly, volume IV, page 248.
Bourne, Baker County. Bourne was named for Jonathan Bourne, Jr., of Portland, who was at one time interested in eastern Oregon mines. He was United States senator from Oregon from 1907 to 1913. He was born in New Bedford, Mass., February 23, 1855, and graduated from Harvard in 1877. He came to Portland in the following year and in 1880 was admitted to the Oregon bar.
Boyd, Wasco County. This name is reported as being derived from a man named Boyd who settled in the vicinity about 1883 and operated a small flour mill. When the post office was established March 6, 1884, G. H . Barnett, a local merchant, suggested the name of Boyd as being both short and appropriate. John E. Barnett was the first postmaster.
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.
Bradford Island, Multnomah County. This island in the Columbia River is easily seen from the railroad or highway just east of Bonneville. It 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
