THURSDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1949
BROOKINGS HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS. OREGON
"Pioneer Trails Of Coos and Curry"
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Emil R. Peterson, Historian, Coos-Curry Pioneer
I Association, R. 1, Box 528, North Bend, Ore.
Tioga trail may be little more
than a memory today (1949).
But when it was first used by
our early settlers in 1853, it had
been trodden by the Indians
through untold generations, as
indicated by the fact that it was
deeply worn in places.
The earliest mention we find
of this trail is in a paper just
handed in by F. B. Rood, well-
known dairyman of the Coos Bay
area for nearly a half century.
I quote from Mr. Rood’s “Dairy
Industry in the Coos Bay Area:”
“In the year 1853, Alfred
Coilver. who was father of
Howard and T. M. Coilver,
who still live on Catching
Inlet, purchased a herd of
cattle near Roseburg and
drove the herd over the old
Roseburg trail to Coos Bay.
It is thought that this trail
is the one which comes to
South Coos River about
three-fourth mile below the
salmon hatchery. Metzger’s
map of Coos County shows
such a trail . . . . ”
G. A. (Alvie) Bonebrake re
calls, as related to him by his
parents, that he first came over
that trail when he was just one
year old. That was 80 years ago.
Alvie was born on Deer Creek,
east of Roseburg, his father,
John W. Bonebrake, had come
over the trail previously, and
had arranged with “Uncle Frank’»
—B. F. Ross—to meet the Bone
brake family at the old McKnight
place on South Coos river on a
pre-arranged date.
The Bonebrakes came with
pack team, through Roseburg,
out by way of Looking Glass
valley, westward into the moun
tains, following the ridge, or the
“backbone” which formed the
divide between the north fork of
the Coquille and the south fork
of the Coos river. At the Mc
Knight place, their horses and
all their belongings were loaded
onto the scow that had been
brought by Mr. Ross. Down the
river they went with the tide,
to just below the old Wes Noah
place. There was an old cut-off
channel that followed near the
foothill to Catching slough op-
posite the mouth of Ross slough.
By this cut-off they shortened
their journey to the new home
by several miles.
This trip by the Bonebrake
family was 15 years after Alfred
Col Iver had driven his cows over
the same route, the first dairy
cattle ever to be brought into
Coos county. At least, it is re
ported that these were the first.
If any were brought in earlier,
we have not heard of them.
It is reported that the trail
branched off to local commun
ities at the Douglas county end
as well as at the Coos county
end. One branch led down to the
McKinley district; another to
Burton Prairie, or what is now
known as Fairview'.
Alice B. Maloney has been
quoted as saying: “I knew a
woman who
’
came to Coos Bay.
Oregon, sometime in the 1850’s
by what she called the Coos Riv-
er trail. , that is via the North
Fork of the Coquille and over
the road used by Harris. She
was Mrs. Mary McKnight of
Marshfield.”
We find that the trail has
been referred to as the “Rose-
burg”— the “Coos River” trail
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and the “Tioga’ trail. I believe
we may safely assume that all
have reference to the same route
— so let us call it the Roseburg-
Tioga-Coos River trail. It seems
that it served a good purpose
for at least 20 years, up to the
time when Coos Bay wagon road
was opened from Roseburg in
1873. This does not include the
untold generations that it has
been used by the Indians before
the coming of the whites.
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