The post office was located at the junction of the Oregon Central Military and Springfield roads, about twenty miles from Eugene, at the present Downing store site. The industries in this section and along forty miles of the middle fork section were hop raising and stock raising. The present town site of Lowell was a huge hop yard and was filled with Indians in hop picking time. An old hop shed, one of this period, still stands in Lowell. Today this town possesses two stores, B. J. Downing and Frank Shultz, a post office, an elementary school, a church and a fine high school.
Agriculture is the main occupation, aided by lumbering and chicken raising.
He possesses one of the finest ranches in this section. A daily mail route was established between Springfield and Lowell by Amos Hyland about 1883. The mail in those days was carried by horse back and stage until the year 1911. On this date the contract expired and since the railroad had been built in the year 1909, this common carrier received the new contract which it takes care of to this day. The mail was forwarded on horseback to Landax, Blakelyville and to Hazeldell.