LANE COUNTY
HORSEPASTURE MOUNTAIN
Willamette National Forest
17S-6E-4
17S-6E-4
August 22, 1915: "With the coming of the dry season the forest guards have been sent to their respective lookouts. Ralph Allen is stationed at Horse Pasture." (Morning Register)
c.1917: An Alidade was used for fire location.
July 19, 1918: "Miss Arrena Humphrey and Howard Humphrey left for Horse Pasture Lookout today to visit with Miss Ida Derflinger and Miss Andrews, for a few days, who are attending the Lookout during the summer." (Morning Register)
July 22, 1918: "The 'smoke chasers,' as the men who fight the fires in the forest are known, called Miss Martha Anderson, former Eugene school teacher, lookout on Horse Pasture mountain, for a reading. She reported back and the point where the observation lines from the two lookout stations intercepted enabled the fire-fighters to determine the exact location of the fire, which was eight miles from the point where they were engaged in work on trails." (The Eugene Daily Guard)
August 22, 1919: "Harold Trotter, who lives near McKenzie Bridge, was in the city yesterday getting ready to go to Horse Pasture lookout where he will help look for fires. Miss Martha Andrews, University student, is in charge of the lookout." (Morning Register)
July 4, 1920: (For the 1919 season) "Miss Dorothy and Miss Martha Andrews, twin sisters, served in the Cascade forest, Miss Dorothy at Frissel Point and Miss Martha on Horsepasture mountain. They could see each other with the aid of field glasses and when lonesome would communicate by means of their field telephone sets. Miss Dorothy is principal of schools at Wendling and Miss Martha taught at McKenzie Bridge, near where their stations were located. Both girls live at Eugene." (The Sunday Oregonian)
July 12, 1920: "H.E. Vincent, of the Cascade Forest office leaves today for the Horse pasture district for the purpose of making maps of the region preparatory to establishing lookout stations." (The Eugene Daily Guard)
September 15, 1920: "It is certain, said Mr. Macduff, that a house will be built at Horsepasture mountain lookout. The general plan of such buildings calls for a structure 12 by 12 feet in dimensions and with a cupola of glass on top four or five feet higher than the superstructure." (Morning Register)
September 15, 1920: "Miss Dorothy Dickey, lookout at Horsepasture mountain, has come in and will attend the University of Oregon." (Morning Register)
June 7, 1921: "The position of forest lookout 6,000 feet above sea level, on the McKenzie river in the Cascade forest, will be held this summer by Miss Dorothy Dickey, a student in the University of Oregon.
She will begin her work about the 10th of July and continue till sometime in September, when the fall rains begin.
This is not a new work for Miss Dickey, for she was lookout last summer and the first to discover 16 forest fires. Though her mountain post is eighty-five miles from Eugene, she says that she does not get particularly lonesome." (The Eugene Daily Guard)
July 25, 1921: "As soon as wire arrives, a telephone line will be built from Horsepasture mountain lookout station to Olallie mountain." (Capital Journal)
August 29, 1921: "Miss Dorothy Dickey, junior at the University of Oregon, is a forest fire lookout on Horse pasture Mountain, 2,000 feet above sea level." (Daily Globe - Michigan)
July 1, 1922: "Miss Dickey is going to take again her position as lookout on Horsepasture Mountain. She held that post last year. Miss Dickey is a 1922 graduate of the University of Oregon." (The Eugene Guard)
July 9, 1922: "Dorothy Dickey, accompanied by her mother, has taken up her duties as lookout on Horse Pasture Mountain. This is Miss Dickey's third summer on this point and as the forest service expects to erect a standard lookout house on Horse Pasture with-in the next two weeks, Miss Dickey is looking forward to a very pleasant summer's work." (Morning Register)
August 8, 1922: "Lumber is now being hauled from the Booth-Kelly yards for the construction of a new lookout house on Horsepasture mountain, in the Cascade National forest." (The Eugene Daily Guard)
September 6, 1922: "Lookout house nearing completion -- Miss Dorothy Dickey, who has been forest lookout on top of Horsepasture mountain above McKenzie Bridge during the past summer, arrived in the city yesterday. She says that the new lookout house being erected by the United States forest service there is nearing completion." (Morning Register)
September 29, 1922: "A lookout house has just been completed on Horsepasture mountain by the Cascade national forest service." (The Eugene Daily Guard)
January 14, 1923: (During the season of 1922) "one standard lookout house was built on top of Horsepasture mountain, eight miles south of McKenzie bridge." (Morning Oregonian)
September 3, 1927: "Loris Starr, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Starr, lookout on Pasture mountain in the Cascade national forest, was forced to come to Eugene yesterday after suffering a light attack of appendicitis, according to forest officials." (Morning Register)
October 13, 1935: "Grant Tate returned to his home Friday from Horsepasture mountain lookout." (The Eugene Register-Guard)
October 14, 1949: "Former Forest Service employees from all over the state, including Portland, Coos Bay and Eastern Oregon, will attend a banquet given by the McKenzie District of Willamette Forest for all those who worked in the district during the past summer.
Colored slides contributed by Fred Young, assistant professor at the university, Horsepasture Mountain Lookout and others will be shown." (The Eugene Guard)
June 15, 1950: "A radio was placed on Horsepasture Mt. Friday, June 9, by the U.S. Forest Service.
The radio will be used to assist in the directing of spray planes in the spruce budworm control project. Later it will be used for fire control." (Register-Guard)
1965: The lookout removed.