Hunter's little daughter was named "Oressa," which was suggested as the name for the post-office. Down in Texas, there is a shrub called "Bodarc." The people of a Texas community were asking for a postoffice and that it be named "Bodarc."
In some inexplicable way, the department at Washington crossed the names, and gave the Texas post-office the name of Oressa, and the Sioux county post-office the name Bodarc. It was quite a long time before the people of Hat creek knew how it happened.
Slingerland and Hunter made Bodarc a live place for awhile. They established the Bodarc Record in the autumn of eighteen eighty-six, just before the election on the county-seat question. Slingerland went overland to Crawford and there took the train to Omaha to get his printing outfit. When the county-seat war was on, Slingerland, having no job press, rode horseback to Crawford and had tickets printed, but as later shown, they did not have enough votes. The railroad made it an uphill fight to try to locate the county-seat in the Hat creek basin.
B KOI XX IXC, OF I [arrison The building of the Chicago ec Northwestern line through Sioux county put the first railroad within its limits. In eighteen eighty-six the work reached the present site of Harrison. The place was then called
Summit, because of its altitude which is forty-eight hundred and seventy-seven feet above sea level. Some distance north of the line of the survey was Bodarc, which as stated had a post-office, store, and newspaper, the Record.