CURRY COUNTY
BOB'S GARDEN
Siskiyou National Forest
34S-10W-5
34S-10W-5
September 14, 1933: "Elwin Florance returned to his post on the Bob's Garden emergency lookout on Wednesday morning, September 11. He says he has a hard time keeping his tent in order, because the deer persist in raiding it!" (The Golden Grizzly) (Camp Agness CCC newspaper)
May 1940: "Provides detection for a considerable area of high hazard burns." (Plans, Guard Placement, Siskiyou National Forest)
May 9, 1940: "Three new fire lookouts will serve the Siskiyou national forest in the Coos-Curry county area this year. Supervisor Ed Cliff reported during a brief visit in Marshfield Wednesday.
One lookout will be on Bob's Garden peak in the Agness district of Curry county." (The Coos Bay Times)
1940: A 40-foot round timber tower was constructed, also a three-quarter mile spur trail to the lookout was constructed. (A History of the Siskiyou National Forest)
1941: The lookout station staffed 100 days, the reporting station was Agness Ranger Station. Communications were by early radio and forest line to West Coast Telephone Company line.
Removed
DESIGNATION - BOBS GARDEN LOOKOUT TOWER
PID - NZ1319
STATE/COUNTY- OR/CURRY
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - MARIAL (1989)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1942 (JCS)
STATION IS THE CENTER OF THE FOREST SERVICE LOOKOUT HOUSE ON
BOBS GARDEN MOUNTAIN IN THE SISKIYOU NATIONAL FOREST. IT IS
ABOUT 8 MILES, AIR LINE, NE OF AGNESS AND 12 MILES SE OF CHINA
FLAT, IN T. 34 S., R. 10 W.
THE STATION WAS NOT VISITED DUE TO ITS INACCESSIBILITY, AND
WAS VIEWED FROM A GREAT DISTANCE BY THIS OBSERVER. IT APPEARED TO
BE A SQUARE HOUSE WITH A PYRAMIDAL ROOF, BUILT DIRECTLY ON THE
GROUND.