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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1949)
THURSDAY, 1949 DECEMBER 8, BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS. OREGON The World's Best Climate ed settlers who were seeking Coquille river to its mouth, then homesteads and cattle ranges. up the coast to south slough and Discovery of gold hastened the on to the present site of Empire. Emil R. Peterson, Historian, Coos-Curry Pioneer influx. When members of that company From Empire City, canoes, along with others brought their Association, R. 1, Box 528, North Bend, Ore. rafts, sccows, rowboats, then families that same year, they steamers—all went with the tide|came by way of Roseburg, Scott. likely, the most-used of any trail “To Commemorate to the head of nasigation on Is- burg down the Umpqua river, within Coos County during the thmus slough, approximately Old Trail first 20 years of the settlement where Green Acres is located and along the beach to Coos Bay. I have been unable to find any Coos Bay Waters To of this region. today. report that justifies attaching Coquille Waters From up and down the Co the date 1850 to the old trail Water transportation always quille river, travelers entered across the isthmus, connecting 1850-1874 has been and still is a leading Erected By factor in travel and the move Beaver slough and let the tide the waters of Coos Bay with the carry them till they could float waters of the Coquille river. I’ll COOS BAY CHAPTER ment of freight. no further. be glad to hear from anyone Daughters of the Coos county consists mainly Russell T. Dement, at the age । W|W can she(j further light on of two sub-divisions — the Co American Revolution of ten, had come with his folks t^js subjeCf quille valley and the Coos Bay to Empire City in 1853. Years 1930” watershed. Travel and transpor afterwards he wrote: ' ‘ About The Pilot for Christmas gift ! Ever see this Pioneer Trail tation of freight between the July 4, 1854. a man named Thos. marker? It’s a bit oil the trod- two sections today follow vir Johnson discovered gold on John den path now since the comple- tually over the same route that son Creek, a tributary of the tion of the new section of Hwy was followed by our earliest pi south fork of the Coquille river. 101, about midway between Coos oneers nearly a hundred years John Yoakam and my father Bay and Coquille. It stands off ago. At that early date, how took their blankets and some the east edge of the road just ever, there were no roads here grub in a canoe and started for south of the old bridge over the and trails were inadequate. the mines. They were much tak railroad on the divide. There was a close relationship en up with the country, since It is a worthy act on the between the two sections from there was plenty of grass and part of any organization to in- the earliest settlements just as game—elk, deer, bear. dicate its interest in local his ’t is today. Coos Bav bad the ‘‘Sometime about the middle tory by marking points of his- i harbor for receiving freight and of 1855 we packed our goods into torical signficance. passengers from San Francesco; two indian canoes. There were, However. I have been unable it had the connty seat at Em- among other things,s a sow and to find any evidence to justify pire: it had the coal mines, the six or eight pigs. We made the the use use of the date 1850. lumber mills.s the salmon fish- head of Isthmus slough the first That old trail from the head ing. All these meant markets for day, the Indians helped us across of Isthmus slough to the head beef, bacon, mutton, other farmi the isthmus to the head of the Beaver slough. ll4 miles.” of Beaver slough, a distance of products. , a little more than a mile, was The rich bottom lands along1 No claim is made here nor one of the best known, and quite the Coquille riyer soon attract-; elsewhere that Russell Dement's; lather (Samuel N. Dement) and . father 'John Yoakam were the first to I use this Isthmus slough-Beaver slough trail. But 1 do not re call any published account in dicating its earlier use. There is | no quesstion about others hav- ing used it along about that same period. It is reported that Hudson Bay trappers entered the Coos Bay country as early as 1824. Since they were in search of fur-bear ing animals, it is not unlikely that they went to the head of Isthmus slough. And it seems likely also that the Indians may ; "Pioneer Trails Of Coos and Curry“ PAGE THREJ Odd Fellows Name Officers For Year Dave Crockett was named No ble Grand of the Odd Fellow lodge last Thursday at the an-« nual election. With him will also serve : Vice-Grand Glen Zirbel. Secretary George Hassett. Treasurer—Ed Hoar. Appointive officers will be des ignated before time of installa tion, early in January, which is being planned jointly with the Rebekahs. Sell your goods through Pilot classified ads—it pays! OHiAWf SAVE 4 Mr A WEGK ¿Mmyf Planned For Low Cost Comfort UflUH room 9?. 9 8" lo-o«u-r. , □ Q 2? BED ROOM >2 9 O'i tJ-í ‘ O MO ROOM • i UV1NG ROOM • 1-2’» 19 6* —ii'-ri uè cu»n / RORCM 8 O’■HO' This small one-story farmhouse of modern design is just right for i small family. Or it would make an excellent tenant house on a largì farm. Despite its size, it has most good features of larger houses, yet th< rectangular design spells low cost construction. The house pictured In the artist’s drawing show’s plywood siding; however, masonry may be substi tuted for wood. Specifying either wood or masonry, you may order the four sheets of working draw ings for plan number 7012 for $1.35 by writing to the Oregon Farm- house Plan Service, Oregon State college. Like all good farmhouses, notice the back door of this house is lo- cated near the farm drive and barns. Yet to save space, entrance at the back is through the utility room. This room houses a forced air or hot water furnace, as well as the laundry equipment, and also serves as storage space for work clothing. Omitting a basement has saved just that much building For a farmhouse whh o the feet cramped quarters and tiny roonu as there are in so many smaL homes. The bathroom, centralis located, opens from a hall which leads to all other rooms. Plumbing economy has been stressed by hav ing the bathroom, utility room, and kitchen in luw. The unbroke» “U” arrangement of the kitchen routes traffic away from work areas. The dining table by low windows is handy to the stove and refrigerator. For compa ny dinners, the house is designed to have a drop-leaf table at the back of the living room. Although the living room measures just 11 by 19 feet, it is well arranged for a small family. In this room, as I e the others, doors are located at corners in order to waste the leasi possible amount of space. The front porch and coverint ov r th? back door give protectee the Douglas fir was named, spent : some time in the Umpqua coun-1 try in 1824. He reports a con- ! versation with Alexander Rod erick McLeod of the Hudson Bay i country, and about the ‘‘myr-1 taceous” trees along the river some 20 miles south of Coos’ Bay; and the grove of treess,: ‘‘when shaken by the least breeze diffused a fragrance through the w hole grove.’’ No mention i s made of crossing the isthmus from Isthmus slough to Beaver I slough, though they may have gone by that path. The W’ell-romembered nioneer.' Patrick Flanagaan, is reported j to have come down from thn1 Umpqua and piloted a ‘lost’ ship from Coos Bay to the Umpqua i in 1851. If he in any of this early travel crossed over the Isthmus- Beaver slough, he left no record j of it anywhere. When Perry B. Marple led the Coos Bay Company from Jacksonville into the Coos Bay country, they came down the poutjiWe^ $299.75 Frigidaire Automatic Washer With “Live-Water” Action Put in clothes and soap, set the dial ... and forget it! 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