SUGARLOAF MOUNTAIN
Curry County - Coos County Fire Patrol Association - 31S-13W-34
October 21, 1921: "Mr. McDaniels and Mr. Thomas will go over the ground on this trip to see what improvements can be made, especially in the way of building telephone lines. It is also planned to establish a lookout on Sugar Loaf mountain and connect it with a telephone. Sugar Loaf obstructs the view on one side of the mountain and it will be necessary to have a lookout on top so a large territory can be kept in sight.---Coos Bay Times." (The Coquille Valley Sentinel)
August 17, 1923: "The United States government maintains a lookout on Sugar Loaf mountain near Eckley and ten miles west of Powers, where the eagle-eyed lookout peers about and sees fires as far as 50 and 60 miles away.
It was when he was looking down toward the Bandon district that this lookout glimpsed a brush fire burning some miles below Bandon and quickly informed deputies about the district of the situation.
The result of the affair was that F. P. Dietz was brought to Marshfield Tuesday night and on pleading guilty to setting fire without a permit, fined $25 and costs." (The Coquille Valley Sentinel)
December 21, 1925: "The lookout stations maintained by Coos FPA are as follows: Sugar Loaf, Sixes River district." (The Coos Bay Times)
December 21, 1925: "The lookout stations maintained by Coos FPA are as follows: Sugar Loaf, Sixes River district." (The Coos Bay Times)
March 19, 1926: "Oscar Lumberg, warden in the Allegany district is constructing a standard lookout house on Sugar Loaf mountain at the head of Sixes river in Curry county. The building will be a 12 x 12 structure with glass in four sides to facilitate observation, and with a six foot cupola on top which will also have glass in each side. The station will be equipped with an Osborne fire finder, by the use of which a lookout may locate fires accurately up to about 40 miles distant. This lookout has an elevation of 3000 feet." (The Coos Bay Times)
April 1926: "J.A. Walsh. The wide awake District Warden of the Coos County Fire Patrol Association, is having a new lookout cabin built on Sugar Loaf Mountain, at a cost of about two hundred dollars. It is of the standard lookout house type, with cupola and everything, made of split cedar boards and hewed frame work. Several men figured around five hundred dollars, then an old woodsman came along and contracted the construction for one hundred seventy-five, and will make money at that as he will do the job in about a month. Ranger Jones" (The Siskiyou Bulletin)
April 1926: "J.A. Walsh. The wide awake District Warden of the Coos County Fire Patrol Association, is having a new lookout cabin built on Sugar Loaf Mountain, at a cost of about two hundred dollars. It is of the standard lookout house type, with cupola and everything, made of split cedar boards and hewed frame work. Several men figured around five hundred dollars, then an old woodsman came along and contracted the construction for one hundred seventy-five, and will make money at that as he will do the job in about a month. Ranger Jones" (The Siskiyou Bulletin)
September 7, 1927: "Darrell Rassmussen arrived home today from Sugar Loaf where he has been warden at the fire lookout for the last two months." (The Coos Bay Times)
July 16, 1928: "J.A. Walsh, W.C. Schultz and Ted Rainwater of Coos County Fires Patrol association, will leave Tuesday for Sugar Loaf mountain lookout where they will install a new fire finder. They will be away from Marshfield for a day or two." (The Coos Bay Times)
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