LAKE COUNTY
BIG HOLE BUTTE
Deschutes National Forest
25S-12E-4
25S-12E-4
April 20, 1931: "The fireman formerly stationed at the Summit stage station is to be moved to Big Hole butte." (The Bulletin)
1931: It was announced in May that money was allocated for a road from the Fremont highway to Big Hole Butte.
1931: "In the spring C.E. "Slim" Hein and crew built a telephone line from Summit Stage Station to the summit of Big Hole Butte." (The Bend Bulletin - March 10, 1970)
June 30, 1932: "Neil Winkle left Sunday for the Fort Rock district where he is to be a forest fire lookout at Big Hole butte." (The Bend Bulletin)
August 13, 1932: "Next Tuesday work will be started on the Big Hole tower, to be 20 feet high. A standard lookout house will be built on top of this tower." (The Bend Bulletin)
October 4, 1932: "Neil Winkle has returned from the Fort Rock district where he was a forest fire lookout on Big Hole butte." (The Bend Bulletin)
January 1936: "It had been hot all day, Roderick Blacker, Lookout on the Big Hole Butte was glad, indeed, when the sun went down. At 7 o'clock Blacker sighted a flare from a plane, falling through the air like a comet from the sky. The plane landed about two miles south of him and about one half mile west of the Fremont Highway.
Roderick checked out with the Bend dispatcher ay 7:10 p.m. and drove down the highway and met Mr. and Mrs. Oliver of San Francisco who were headed to Klamath Falls to repair a plane. Oliver had lost his bearings and was headed for the desert when his gas supply ran out, so he made a forced landing in an old burn. He set the plane down between two big snags, about the only two snags that would permit a plane to go between them without the loss of both wings and maybe a head or two. Roderick brought them both back with him to the lookout where he and Mrs. Blacker played host to their unexpected guests all night. H.R. Tonseth." (Six Twenty-Six)
Roderick checked out with the Bend dispatcher ay 7:10 p.m. and drove down the highway and met Mr. and Mrs. Oliver of San Francisco who were headed to Klamath Falls to repair a plane. Oliver had lost his bearings and was headed for the desert when his gas supply ran out, so he made a forced landing in an old burn. He set the plane down between two big snags, about the only two snags that would permit a plane to go between them without the loss of both wings and maybe a head or two. Roderick brought them both back with him to the lookout where he and Mrs. Blacker played host to their unexpected guests all night. H.R. Tonseth." (Six Twenty-Six)
1941: The lookout received 1.15 inches of rain over the weekend of August 16th and 17th.
Removed