Editing Biggs Junction, Oregon (section)

== History ==
'''Biggs''' is a station on the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] (UP) at what was once a junction with the UP's [[Grass Valley, Oregon|Grass Valley]] line to [[Kent, Oregon|Kent]] that has since been abandoned.<ref name=OGN>{{Cite OGN|7th|pages=81, 899}}</ref><ref name=Impact>{{cite web |url= http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/14239/1/p92-16.pdf |title= A Summary of Research Studies on the Community Impacts of Rail Abandonment in the Midwest |last= Fruin |first= Jerry E. |date= July 1992 |publisher= The Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, [[University of Minnesota]] College of Agriculture |pages= 25–29 |access-date= 2011-02-14}}</ref> Biggs was named for a nearby landowner, W. H. Biggs, who settled in Sherman County in 1880.<ref name=OGN /> W. H. Biggs was born on May 12, 1831; he was from [[Ohio]].<ref name=OGN /> The rail line was originally owned by the [[Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company|Oregon Railway and Navigation Company]] (OR&N). In 1885 the OR&N station at Biggs was called Spanish Hollow, after the canyon that opens on the river there.<ref name=OGN /> The canyon was said to be named because a Spanish ox died there in the days of the [[Oregon Trail]], which runs parallel to U.S. 97.<ref name=OGN /><ref name=GNIS>{{cite gnis |id= 1127366 |name= Spanish Hollow |entrydate= November 28, 1980 |accessdate= 2011-02-14}}</ref><ref name=End>{{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/oregonendoftrail00writrich |title= Oregon: End of the Trail |author= [[Federal Writers' Project|Writers' Program]] of the [[Work Projects Administration]] in the [[Government of Oregon|State of Oregon]] |series= [[American Guide Series]] |year= 1940 |publisher= [[Binfords & Mort]] |location= [[Portland, Oregon]] |page= [https://archive.org/details/oregonendoftrail00writrich/page/388 388] |oclc= 4874569}}</ref><ref name=Note>Note: There was a Spanish Hollow post office from 1870 to 1882 at what is now [[Wasco, Oregon|Wasco]]</ref> Biggs is where travelers on the Oregon Trail would first see the Columbia River after their overland journey.<ref name=Side>{{cite book |title= The Other Side of Oregon |author= Friedman, Ralph |author-link= Ralph Friedman |orig-year= 1993 |year= 2002 |edition= 2nd |page= 60 |publisher= [[Caxton Press (United States)|The Caxton Printers, Ltd]] |location= Caldwell, Idaho |isbn= 0-87004-352-8}}</ref> The current community of Biggs Junction was named for the station, which is less than a mile west of the current junction, and its location at the [[Intersection (road)|intersection]] of I-84 and U.S. 97.<ref name=OGN /><ref name=GNIS3>{{cite gnis |id= 1167695 |name= Biggs |entrydate= November 28, 1980 |accessdate= 2011-02-14}}</ref> Biggs post office was established in 1884 and closed in 1954.<ref name=OGN />