Public access has never existed at Camp Bay

I wish to dispute opinions published in the Daily Bee about what was our family land at Camp Bay.  

My grandfather, John van Schravendyk, and my great-grandmother, Anna van Schravendyk, were Bonner County pioneers (1902) before there was a Bonner County (1907). As homesteaders their title to the land was directly from the United States of America. 

In the Viewer Report (1909) they wrote “The road is necessary to secure an outlet for the settlers, to the lakeshore at Camp Bay, and for a road to the store and post office at Glengary.” This would be narrow wagon road, and the terminus point shows it was only to the lakeshore and not the lake. They had little need for access onto the lake and a road terminating at the lake would mean traversing a steep gravel beach which many a future trespasser has regrettably found is ideal for trapping wheeled vehicles.