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BROOKIKGS-HARBOR PILOT - PAGE T EN Thursday, March I, 1Q56 BROOKINGS, OREGON THE HISTORY OF DEL NORTE COUNTY about .round th e cam p fire., ] N o rth w ert." th e foU «»ta«,notM w ith or w ithout the benefit of a have been taken. I t E X C E R P T S FROM roof. T h ere is no printed record I have titled his w ork «o^M to RA RE V O L F MES • 'a n d all we have to go by a re 1 focus it on extrenv- N o itb w w t- | th e recollections of some of th e te rn California, otherw ise tin Com piled by M. K. H k h m ini m ore articu la te and educated, title is n u n - misleading. Lo„n ------------- 1 One such was the late A nthony ‘ his topic the early days ot P el T hings happening around h ere Joseph BI'dsne. from w hOM ver; N 11 m ’ “ ' in the early days w<re ta lk e d ^ ra re book, ‘Indian W ars of th«i # 1 NOTICE Brookings Residents For Demonstration or Information regarding a New 1956 Cadillac, write or call collect, Mr. Eck at Lou Btonc, Inc., 2nd and Anderson, Coos Bay, Oregon — Phone Congress 7-2153. Now is the time to place ycur order from the Curry County allotm ent for early delivery. strea m which they named ‘‘T rin George about the middle of Apiil thorough. He is also credited its stream , w .th one Van Duzen ity,” supposing it to em pty into These five men w alked south w ith having w ritte n a still ra re r scouting ahead tor a crossing. a coastal depression m arked on and cam e to a river which they Coming u[xm a stream entering volum e The H istory ot Del N orte the old Spanish m; ps as T rinity supposed to be the T rin ity —but the Eel from the left and tinding County.” Bay. But the party worked up it was the K lam ath the main D uring the stam pede of '49, a suitabk* ford there, they re- , stream , discovering gold, re tu rn stream They tram ped up some ferred to this trib u ta ry ot the parse se ttle rs and prospectors ing to the S acram ento Valley, littje ways, picked out some lik Eel as Van Duzen’s River, and crept fu rth e r and fu rth e r up the and a “ R ush” w as on. ely-looking hom esites for them S acram en to Valley. As the tia il so it rem ains. C onfronted with a dem and for selves, then on down to T rinidad H aving gotten across, another w as broken, they sent back down b e tte r tran sp o rtatio n , a wild w here the story of their discov it for supplies. T he fu rth e r they and more serious arguem ent search w as m ade for this "T rin ery caused quite a to-do, and a broke out am ong the men. part »ushed. so much fu rth e r down ity Bay” as set down by the ra th e r large party w ent back to of them w an tin g to follow the th - back trail they had to negot- Sj.anish, and the supposition was a te for the bringing up of the Eel and cross over in the S ac th a t w a te rg ra d e route could be the stre a m ’s m outh to settle. They w ere s«x>n joined by others, ram ento Valley, while p art w ish needful things, and for the most layed from the bay up to the »ail. the scarcer these supplies ed to continue down the coast m ining area, along the T rin ity everyone sure, because of the e ra m e . Kingers of m iners ex* to San Francisco Bay. A fter River. The opportunists lelt strikes on th e 'T rin ity , th at every ilored every trickle, seeking as- terrible h ar lships. during that nothing to time, for in D ecem ber har along the stream m ust he ured w ealth a t the sources, high first w in ter of ’50, both parties of 1849, th«’ ‘ ailing ship CAMEO rich in gold sluiced down through in th e hills, including the T rin- finally reached th e ir determ ined m ade an exp iato ry cruise north the ages, from the deposits above. Houses, fram ed in San all except Dr. ties, w here they discovered the destinations from San Fransisco, retu rn in g Trinity River which they figured Gregg, w'ho died on his way to report no such ¡dace as T rin - Francisco, w ere shipped in and erected and it is said one iron- •mptied d irectly into the Pac- along the coast. Despite th eir m em orable trip ! ity Bay, and in March, of 1850, house was in the lot, probably lic. W eaverville, in the T rinity driven N orth in a storm , some Valley, was th e estab lish ed m et- it was some years before word of her passengers w ho had had consigned to some fraidy-cat-of- 'ot around about it and every- the-Indians. lopolis. beyond an easy pass enough, landed at Point St. .(C ontinued N e x t W eek) from th e S acram en t Valley s e t’ >ne still believed th e T rinity emptied directly into th e sea tlemjyit at Redding. In O ctober of ’49, Beldsoe and th at a trail from its m outh w rites, ;• party of forty m iners to the mines would lx* a bonanza iced a rugged w inter in their for both m erchants and [»ackers. From this story we pick out •amp at Ricn Bar. on the Trin- > Indians told them it was hut the nam es of some of th ? rivers n eight-day hike to a large w ith which we are all m ore or •iy, surrounded by line prairies, less fam iliar, especially since ■ht on the ocean. It m eant the recent disastrous flooding, • Iy eight days to contact a and strangely in this story so i silde settlem en t w ith com far. there is no m ention of e ith m unications to San Francisco, er the K lam ath or S m ith Rivers ’d a possible source of supplies Incident Iy, as the m outh of the • it iced them Rain, sleet, and Sm ith River had been seen from the ocean, it was not associated io w w as already u[x»n them. Among the [»arty was Dr. Jos- with its trib u ta ry th r T rinity, ie.h Gregg, a Missourian, and he but was thought to be th e m outh was chosen to head tw enty-four of w hat was then called “Sm ith >. th e h u n g ry and ragged crew River”, la ter called the Illinois. Going backw ard, som ew hat, in t( strik e out for the coast. They 8 6 PROOF 1« f t cam p on N ovem ber 5. 1849, June of th«* year 1849, M ajor K e n tu c k y S traight Bourbon W hiskey | T i t on th e ir lirst day's climbing Pearson B. Reading, who had iut of the valley and into a been ranching in the S h asta v i U ^ X r -D .> P T t S / sq t . snow storm , th e ir two Indian V’alley for some four years, o r guides and sixteen of the men ganizer! a sm all p a rty to explore tu rn ed hack, leaving the doctor, to the w estw ard. C rossing a OLD CROW DISTILLERY CO , DIV. OF NATIONAL DIST. PROD CORP.. FRANKFORT, K1 one of the eight men who in sist “backbone,” they cam e ujxm a ed upon proceeding. T h eir h eartb reak in g b attle w ith the raw elem ents, raw country, uid raw er Indians, the account of which Bledsoe apparently g ath ered from some of the men, is alm ost unlxdieveahle. In eight days th e ir scant rations of flour, 1 m ins and pork w ere all gone and th e ir horses w ere rapidly becom ing w eaker. T heir sparse and w orn equipm ent becam e useless. At one point they m an aged to shoot a few deer .laying over to smoke th e m eat, which they loaded U|K>n th eir poor horses, but the horses dropped, one by one, as th e re w as no feed for them . W hen they cam e to heavy down tim ber, th e men had to slab off logs to m ake a ram p for th e stock to get up on and then they jum ped th em down the I o th er side. Since leaving the I T rin ity th ere was, a t no place, j an y th in g resem bling a trail. Standard A fte r over a m onth on the way, the [»arty finally reached I the sea at the m outh of a stream I nov known as L ittle River, just south of Trinidad. W hile they 1 canijx'd there, th e [»arty alm ost broke up but fea r of w hat the Indians might do. held them to gether. 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