LANE COUNTY
BALD BUTTE
National Forest
21S-3E-25
21S-3E-25
June 16, 1917: "Government trail building under Assistant Ranger J. C. Kuhns was resumed. A trail which has already been started, leads from the Salt Creek bridge to the top of Bald butte, where a lookout station will be established." (Morning Register)
August 3, 1917: "Gus Ryker, lookout on Bald Butte, above Oakridge, a few days ago, saw smoke issuing from the roof of the Frank Warner residence in the valley below. Seeing no one about the place he called up the house by telephone. Mrs. Flora Dompier, daughter of Mr. Warner, was alone in the house with her little baby. She answered the telephone, stating that she did not know the roof was afire. Ryker then called up Oakridge and a crew of men was organized and proceeded to the scene of the fire, eight miles away, by automobile. In the meantime Mrs. Dompier had procured a ladder and was fighting the blaze as best she could. When the Oakridge men arrived in the car they formed a bucket brigade and soon had the flames extinguished. The men were at the scene of the fire within 15 minutes after Ryder had called them." (Morning Register)