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1. Fred W. Dykes, "Cold, Hard Facts About Jeffrey's Cutoff," Overland Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter 1996-97), p. 6.
2. Merrill, Irving R. and Wells, Merle, "Goodale's Cutoff from Boise Valley to Powder River." Overland Journal, Vol. 14 (Spring 1996), p. 9.
3. Irving Merrill, "Tim Goodale and His Cutoff: a Major trail Segment During and After the Fourth Emigration Wave." Overland Journal, Vol. 8 (Fall 1990), p. 10.
4. Geneva Gibbs Barry Jewell, "Indian Valley and Surrounding Hills" (1990). p. 8. Only 4 pages of a typed copy, unpublished paper, obtained by mail from Gary Frankin, Cambridge, January 20, 2003.
5. Merrill and Wells, p. 11. Jewell included a written account of the Goodale Train travel, written by Dunham Wright
6. Idaho State Historical Society, "Gold Rush Route, Brownlee to Placerville." ISHS Reference Series, #1014 (August 1993), p. 1. From an Internet Google search, "Salubria, Goodale," by James McGill, 10-21-04. The report states that the central route was used later in 1862 by miners going to "lower Weiser and Payette," where those southward traveling miners ended up near Pickett's corral-near the present Black Canyon-and then headed toward Placerville.
7. James L. Huntley, Ferry Boats in Idaho (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1979), p. 205.
8. Adelia Parke, "My Mother's Family were Pioneers" (Midvale, ID: Midvale Library, n.d.), p. 1. An unpublished family history written by a former Midvale resident and archived at the Library. Obtained by Internet from the Midvale Library by a Google, "Goodale, emigrant" search, June 10, 2004.
9. LaFayette Carter, Surveyor Gen. of Idaho, Land Survey Plats (Boise: BLM, State Office, June and November 1870), Allen Thompson, Surveyor. Obtained from Microfilm files at the BLM State Office, Oct. 18, 2004.
10. ISHS, "Goodale's Cutoff from Boise Valley to Powder River." Reference Series, #1048 (June 1994), p. 2. Internet, "Tim Goodale" search, 10-21-2004.
11. Milton Kelly, Editor, "Editorial Correspondence: Emmettsville," Idaho Statesman, Boise, June 22, 1876, p. 2, col. 1. Obtained from Larry Jones, ISHS, June 9, 2004.
12. Ibid, col. 2.
13. Merrill, p. 15.
14. ISHS, "Goodale's Cutoff North of Timmerman Hill." Reference Series, # 1071 (April 1995), p. 2.
15. Nellie Ireton Mills, All Along the River: Territorial and Pioneer Days on the Payette (Montreal, Canada: printed privately, 1963), p. 37.
16. Beth Gibson, "Boise Basin Mining District," Beth Gibson Papers, (2001), p. 1. Obtained from the Internet, AOL hometown page, search by James McGill, 10-24-2004.
17. Ibid, p. 2.
18. ISHS, "Stage Lines - Boise Basin." Reference Series, #144, (1971). Internet search, "Umatilla Boise road," 10-21-2004.
19. W. P. Horton, "Placerville, Boise Mines," Washington Statesman (no city) April 4, 1863, p. 3, c. 2. Typed copy obtained from Gary Franklin, Cambridge, January 20, 2003, pp. 1-2 .
20. Mills, p. 32.
21. Fitz James Clyde, Enumerator, 1870 U. S. Census (August 24, 1870), Idaho City Precinct, Boise County, Territory of Idaho, pp. 53-62. Ancestry.com - Images online. October 27, 2004, http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/ view.aspx?dbid=7163&path=Idaho+Territory.Boise.Idaho+City.10&qf=mc
22. Adams County Historic Preservation Commission, "A History of the Council Valley Area," ACHPC Web Site (Council, ID, n.d.), p. 2., Obtained 10-21-04.
23. Ibid, pp. 2-5. This paper gives a succinct outline with a few details of the development of all the region.
24. Huntley, p. 207. Some of Huntley's information came from an Idaho Tri-Weekly Statesman article of Jan 20, 1876.
25. Emily Towell, "Missouri to Idaho, 1881: Emily Towell's Diary," Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, Vol. 10, Ed. and compiler, Kenneth L. Homes (Lincoln, NB: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1991), p. 218.
26. Merrill, p. 15.
27.Ibid, "Introduction," p. 197.
28. Midvale School Administration, "History of Midvale high School," (Midvale, ID: High School archives, n.d.), p. 2. Found on Midvale Library Web.  Yahoo search, 6-12-2004.
29. Ethel Ader (Nelson) Reynolds, "Personal Letter to Maxine" (Midvale: Library archives, December 11, 1979), p. 1. This letter was written from Toledo, OR, with some family history that was to be included in a history of Midvale in the News Reporter. Ethel was 75 years old at the time, born in Midvale in 1904, and she had interviewed her mother in 1957, recording the emigrant story.
30. Ibid, pp. 1-2.
31. Washington County Records, SSI Records, Idaho Death Records, Internet Ancestry.com files, search "Elijah Ledington," 10-27-2004.
32. Merrie Pinick, Havensville, Pottawatomie Co, Ks. Area working database (Pottawatomie: October 18, 2004), http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mp648&id=I21151 , Ancesry.com search, 10-27-04.
33. Frank P. Mosley, History of Idaho the Gem of the Mountains, Vol. 1 (no data), Chap. 33, p. 684, Images. Ancestry.com, search, "emigrants Washington County" 10-27-04; Money Stafford, 1870 U.S. Census (June 18-19, 1870), Boise City Pct., Ada Co., Territory of Idaho, pp. 2-3.
34. Ibid, Stafford; BLM, General Land Office Records, Internet,  Search on 10-28-2004; OCTA, Emigrant Names (Independence, MO, 2002), CD published with emigrant names from many sources; Sandra Hansen, "Goodale North," E-mail reply of December 02, 2004, to James McGill. Her husband is a descendent of some of the Salubria families, including the Allison family, and she sent information on the Allison and Abernathy emigrants.
35. Mosley; Stafford; BLM; OCTA. Information was mixed and came from all these sources for emigrants in all the above three paragraphs.
36. Mosley, "Biographical," History, Vol. 3, pp. 234-235; Ibid, BLM, GLOR, "Cuddy" search; V. D. Hannah, 1880 U.S. Census (June 7, 1880), Middle Weiser Valley Pct., Washington Co., Idaho, p. 369.
37. Jewell, p. 6; Idaho Death Records, Ancestry.com, 10-27-2004..
38. Ibid, p. 8.
39. Ibid, p. 5.
40. Adams County Historic Preservation Commission, p. 4.
41. Ibid, pp. 4-5; Hannah, (June 19, 20, 21, 1880), Council Valley Pct., p. 372.
42. Daniel J. Hutchison and Larry Jones, tech. eds., Emigrant Trails of Southern Idaho (Boise: Bureau of Land Management and Idaho State Historical Society, 1993), pp. 131-142.
43. Lalia Boone, Idaho Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary (Moscow, ID: University of Idaho Press, 1988), p. 48.
44. Carter, T5N, R1E, April 18, 1868.
45. Willis H. Reith, Surveyor Gen., Land Survey Plat (BLM State Office, June 1895). Obtained on Oct. 18, 2004.
46. Boone, p. 243.
47. Carter, T5N, R1W, Jan. 28, 1868; T6N, R1W, Dec. 15, 1868.
48. Allen M. Thompson, Field Notes of the Boise Meridian and First Standard Parallel North of the Baseline (Boise: BLM, State Office, November 16, 1867), V. 62, pp. 178-187; Thompson, Survey Land Plat (August 9, 1867), T5N, R1W, from microfilm BLM office, Boise; Surveyor notes, V. 1, p. 117, V. 11, p. 72, V. 45, p. 451.
49. Clyde (August 1, 1870), Centerville Precinct, Boise County, p. 26; Cort Conley, Idaho For the Curious: A Guide (Cambridge, ID, Backeddy Books, 1982), p. 150; Surf the Sake Website, "Home, Gem County History," Gem County Official Website (Emmett, n.d.), p. 3; William S. Bethel, "John F. T. Basye," History of Idaho the Gem of the Mountains, Vol. 3 (Mosley, Editor), pp. 564 & 567. From Ancestry.com, November 12, 2004.
50. A. H. Thompson, Geographer, U. S. Geological Survey, "Boise Sheet," 1897. A copy provided to James McGill by Dan Lute, Boise, ID, in May 2005.
51. James H. Hawley, Ed, "Emmett," History of Idaho the Gem, Vol. 1 (Chicago, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1920), Chap. 35, p. 729. From Ancestry.com, June 7, 2005.
52. Merrill and Wells, p. 10; Mills, p. 57. Mills information was that part of Goodale's group had gone on down the Boise River, almost to the Fort Boise site, before traveling an old trail north to the Payette River. These wagons crossed near later Bluff Station and rejoined the other Goodale wagons that had come west from Freezeout Hill and along the Payette River. This now seems quite possible from the information presented in Addendum One below.
53. Jewell, p. 6.
54. Elizabeth Lee Porter, "Iowa to Oregon, 1864," Covered wagon Women, Vol. IX (Spokane, Arthur Clark Co., 1990), p. 29; Mary Louisa Black, "The Unabridged Diary of Mary Louisa Black," The Oregon and Overland Trail Diary of Mary Louisa Black in 1865 (Medford, OR: Webb Research Group, 2001), p. 52.
55. Harriet A. Loughary, "Travels and Incidents," Covered Wagon Women, Vol. VIII, p. 153.
56. James I. Mills, "Lower Payette Valley, 1863-1885," Map (April 1, 1963), traced from an era map by Mills; Jones, Telephone conversation with James McGill, November 4, 2004.
57. Surf the Snake, p. 1.  Obtained by James McGill, Nov. 12, 2004; Boone, p. 132.
58. Stewart Bates Eakin Jr., "A Short Sketch of a Trip Across the Plains," p. 21. Typescript, ISHS Library, Obtained by Jim McGill in Summer 2000.
59. Surf the Snake, p. 1.
60. Addendum Two, the information update of 01-09-05, added below the Endnotes, supports this change about the probable original Goodale Train route.
61. Oregon Genealogy, "Final Settlement of Umatilla County, Oregon," Oregon Genealogy Records, pp. 1-2.  10-21-2004.
62. Ibid, "Umatilla City, Umatilla County, Oregon," pp. 1-3.
63. Mrs. Jay Lynn, 4050 Chaparral Rd, Eagle, ID, Nov. 21, 4005. Personal conversation with Mrs. Lynn at her residence by James McGill.
64. W. W. Lloyd and Mrs. Edna A. Melhorn, "Baker County Historical Society," Oregon Historical Quarterly, V. 49 (1948). p. 306; Hiram T. French, "Discovery of Gold," Chapter 5, History of Idaho (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1914), p. 35; Ibid, "Boise County," p. 133. French quoted the story told by Moses Splawn, before recorded in John Hailey's History of Idaho.
65. Lloyd and Melhorn.
66. Ibid.
67. Horton, p. 1.
68. Ibid, p. 2.
69. Willis H. Pettit, Joseph Perrault, and Ernest G. Eagleson, Surveyor Generals, Survey Plats, (BLM). Various plats following NW from the Cambridge area, obtained in July 2004 from the Boise BLM office; Kelly, "Editorial Correspondence: Wm. West's Ferry, May 23, '76," Statesman, June 8, 1876, p. 2, c. 3. Obtained from Larry Jones; Horton, p. 2.
70. James I. Mills, "Map of the Mines of Idaho Oregon" (no location, February 1884), George Woodman's Office, Clerk for the North [Mining] District of California. Copied by Mills in 1963, and this writer's copy was obtained from Gary Franklin, Jan. 20, 2003.
71. Kelly, "Wm. West's Ferry," p. 2, c. 4.
72. Ralph N. Preston, Early Idaho Maps (Portland: Thomas Binford, Pub., 1978), pp. 18-21. Maps signed by LaFayette Carter, Surveyor General.
73. Ibid, pp. 44-45; Jim McGill phone conversation with Don Shannon, Caldwell, ID, November 15, 2004. Shannon has a copy of the Merle Well's map with the changed name.
74. Anne Jane Biggers Elliot Foster, "Anne Jane's Journal," p. 33. Photocopy, ISHS Library, obtained in Summer 2000.
75. Kelly, "Wm. West."
76. ISHS, "Midvale Hill: Goodale's Route, Boise to Brownlee, in 1862," Ref. Series, # 1075 (1995), p. 2. Found during a Google search, "Freezeout Hill," June 7, 2005, by James McGill.
77. Gerald J. Tucker, The Story of Hells Canyon, (Unknown: 1977), p. 24. Copied pages received by James McGill on Feb. 2, 2005, from Norma Dart, Middleton, ID; Kelly, "Wm. West."
78. Huntley, pp. 206-207; Kelly.
79. Tucker, p. 24.
80. H. S. Daily, "Eagle Valley's Early History," Eagle Valley News, Richland, OR, Feb. 13, 1919, v. 7, n. 13, p. 1, c. 3. A copy sent to this write by Gary Franklin, Jan. 20, 2003;   Horton, p. 1.
81. Merrill and Wells, p. 13.
82. Telephone conversation by James McGill with Irving Merrill, July 2004, in which he verified his interest and support for the Goodale North project.
83. ISHS, "Goodale's Cutoff," Reference Series, # 51 (1972), p. 2; Merrill, p. 12.
84. Merrill and Wells, pp. 9 & 13.