Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 25
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cattle walked straight in, it was up hill on that side, & down hill on the other side. Think it was KOLONGA where the owner was very ill, & they were so sure he would not recover they made his coffin. He did not die, & had this suspicion about the hammering, & when he was well enough he climbed up into the loft & found his coffin. Blackmans gap, up Oakey creek, on our side of the range (and where a working B a few years ago, (1941) repaired the road to get away from the Japs) was where the first cattle came from the South to stock Milton Station crossed the Many Peaks Range. Mr Blackman of WARRO got the credit for showing them the way over, but think it should have been YORKIE'S Gap. It was very much better for taking cattle over, either way, before the road was made by the railway & mines departments, without asking permission of either the Miriam Vale or Calliope Councils. They wanted us to take it over, & the Chairman A.H.G. MACDONALD, the Shire Clerk