ANDERSON MOUNTAIN
Coos County - Coos FPA - 29S-11W-21
April 11, 1929: "Report comes from Bridge that the Forest Service will erect a lookout this summer on Mt. Anderson. Mt. Anderson is one of the prominent peaks in that section, affording a view from the summit over all the country round, and from a lookout there rangers will be able to detect any fire soon after it starts." (Myrtle Point Herald)
July 12, 1929: "Ted Rainwater, of the Coos County Fire patrol, yesterday completed a survey of the Anderson mountain lookout district near Bridge. The Anderson lookout, a primary station and one of seven now in Coos county, was completed this spring and will now be officially located on the county forestry map." (The Coos Bay Times)
August 17, 1933: "With a road suitable for car travel and a new lookout tower Anderson lookout station at Bridge is now becoming better equipped to render service.
A crew of 20 men are building a 60-foot lookout tower on Anderson mountain and several boys from the Coquille CCC camp are building an automobile road up to the station." (Myrtle Point Herald)
September 3, 1933: "Material now being carried to the top by the '15' Caterpillar." (Samuel L. Miller Field Report)
September 20, 1933: "The lookout towers, located on Blue Ridge and Anderson mountain, are nearing completion and another week should see the work finished. Each lookout is 60 feet high, complete with a fully equipped cabin on top of the tower." (The Coos Bay Times)
October 11, 1935: "Beer may not be hard liquor, but a six-bottle case survived a 500-foot drop from an airplane to Lloyd Jarvis, lookout on Anderson Mountain.
Figuring the beer would be too heavy to pack into his roost, Jarvis arranged with a pilot who was passing that way to drop the package. The plane swung low over the lookout station and threw down the carton, all six bottles of which were undamaged." (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
November 1937: "A new Mascot, a 3-month-old mountain bobcat, has been added to the collection of three deer and two dogs at the Marshfield side camp of CCC Company 981.
The animal was captured nine miles east of Myrtle Point by Dwight Culver, state forestry lookout at Bridge, and was presented to Keith Young, district fire warden at the Marshfield camp.
Although the cat is being tutored in the conduct becoming a gentleman house feline, he persists in the use of his sharp teeth and powerful paws for antics that are not becoming to the desirable house pet." (The Forest Log)
The animal was captured nine miles east of Myrtle Point by Dwight Culver, state forestry lookout at Bridge, and was presented to Keith Young, district fire warden at the Marshfield camp.
Although the cat is being tutored in the conduct becoming a gentleman house feline, he persists in the use of his sharp teeth and powerful paws for antics that are not becoming to the desirable house pet." (The Forest Log)
June 15, 1938: "Bob King of Oswego today was assigned to the Anderson mountain lookout station of the Coos Fire Patrol. King was on this same station during the 1937 fire season. The station is about one mile north of Bridge." (The Coos Bay Times)
November 1, 1941: "William Huff of Albany had the week's best workout, according to reports from Coos Fire Patrol association. Huff climbed two miles uphill to his summer lookout post on Anderson mountain. Huff was working at Albany when he heard the lookout posts would be manned, and he left his job and reported for duty." (The Coos Bay Times)
July 13, 1955: "Anderson Mountain station was abandoned because of rotting timbers in the tower." (The Coos Bay Times)
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