and ran wild a number of years. The place was called by the settlers Bull Run. The Barlow Road across the mountains was opened in 1845-46 . Talbot was a civil engineer. His father's (John B. Talbot) land claim included Council Crest of Portland. Many cattle escaped from the immigrants when driven across the Cascade Range on the Indian trail, north of Mount Hood, in 1841-45, prior to the opening of the Barlow Road, and also afterwards. In The Oregonian of December 6, 1851, Robert Alexander advertised having found a number of stray cattle near the summit of Cascade Range. Charles B. Talbot died at Portland April 5, 1874. He was born in Massachusetts in 1798. For further history of the name Bull Run, ibid., March 29, April 5, 1897, page 8; July 30, 1901, page 12. For description of the river in 1885, ibid., October 25, 1885.
Bunchgrass Creek, Wasco County. This stream is in the extreme northwest part of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, and flows into Warm Springs River. There are a number of geographic features in Oregon named for the bunchgrass, a valuable natural forage of the eastern part of Oregon. Charles V. Piper lists two varieties; festuca ovina ingrata, the blue bunchgrass of the prairies, which is densly tufted and agropyron spicatum, the wheat bunchgrass which is taller and grows generally on dry hills.
Burghardts Mill, Clackamas County. This little settlement is about a mile west of Barton and is near Clackamas River. It was named for Ernest H. Burghardt, one of the early settlers in that community. It was he who secured the establishment of the Barton post office. The mill is occasionally referred to as Burkhards Mill but that form is incorrect. For additional information see under Barton.
Burns, county seat of Harney County. This community was named for Robert Burns by George Mc-
