GRANT COUNTY
FIELDS PEAK
Malheur National Forest
14S-29E-20
14S-29E-20
August 12, 1921: "John Scharff, now lookout on Fields Peak, will attend the O.A.C. taking the Forestry course. He graduated from John Day high school last May." (Blue Mountain Eagle)
June 9, 1922: "Supervisor Reid returned from Murderers Creek station Saturday. While there he located a trail to the top of Fields Peak up which the material for a lookout house will be packed early in July. The maximum grade of this trail is 15 per cent. Reid says he can 'put a Ford on the top of Fields Peak for a thousand bucks' Any takers." (Blue Mountain Eagle)
July 28, 1922: "Lumber has been delivered at Murderers Creek ranger station ready to be pulled up to the top of Fields Peak where a standard lookout house is to be built at once by Ranger McEntire." (Blue Mountain Eagle)
August 1922: "On July 25 Ranger J.B. McEntire completed the John Day-Crow Flat telephone line which connects all major lookouts upon the forest with the Supervisor's office in John Day direct. He will now begin constructing the Field Peak standard lookout house. We hope the lightning will continue to avoid us." (Six Twenty-Six)
August 1922: "Immediate report of a small puff of smoke originating from an oil burning wood saw engine July 27 by both Lookout Faiman (Strawberry) and Lookout Hinkle (Fields Peak), distance twenty two and fourteen miles respectively, speaks well for both lookouts and these major lookout points. The engine was in a heavy stand of mature yellow pine on private land outside the Forest and neither lookout nor Ranger McEntire knew the engine was there. The reading was exact so that McEntire went directly to the spot which was quite a surprise to the operator. C.C.R." (Six Twenty-Six)
August 1922: "On July 25 Ranger J.B. McEntire completed the John Day-Crow Flat telephone line which connects all major lookouts upon the forest with the Supervisor's office in John Day direct. He will now begin constructing the Field Peak standard lookout house. We hope the lightning will continue to avoid us." (Six Twenty-Six)
December 1922: "The standard lookout house is anchored down with 3/8" steel cable and turn buckles upon Fields Peak and also has one complete coat of paint." (Six Twenty-Six)
May 17, 1924: "O.L. Starr, principal, of Canyon City, has been appointed to take the Field's peak lookout, the only position left vacant from the old season." (La Grande Evening Observer)
May 1937: "A lookout-dispatcher on Fields Peak during a dry lightning storm was endeavoring to take fire reports from 3 other lookouts, take readings on several fires from his own station and plat the several fires and dispatch men to them within the 'standard time limit'. The telephone and fire finder were in the cupola of the D-6 house and platting board down stairs on the bed. During one of the numerous trips up and down the ladder and through the hole in the floor, the telephone receiver was dislodged from the hook and fell through the 'hatch'. When the receiver came to the end of the cord, the cord broke and pulled loose from the receiver.
Shades of Paul Bunyon! The best the distraught P.A. could do was shout over the phone, 'Hold everything while I repair the telephone'. 'nough said. L.D. Bailey" (Six Twenty-Six)
Shades of Paul Bunyon! The best the distraught P.A. could do was shout over the phone, 'Hold everything while I repair the telephone'. 'nough said. L.D. Bailey" (Six Twenty-Six)
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