HUCKLEBERRY MOUNTAIN
Wallowa County - National Forest - 2S-43E-6
August 28, 1930: "Material for a lookout on Huckleberry Mountain has been packed in." (Enterprise Record Chieftain)
February 1937: "Lookout-Fireman Mills, stationed on Huckleberry Butte reported a fire July 14, to which he was dispatched. Upon arrival at the scene of action he found a large white fir burning in the top, some 80 feet from the ground. Assisted by a local cooperator, he felled the tree and upon examination of the top, found a mass of clinker like formation, approximately 10-inches in diameter, imbedded in the nest of coals in the burned hollow.
Close examination of the clinker leads one to believe that it is of metallic origin. No blasting operations had been carried on in this vicinity, and some two weeks had elapsed since a lightning storm had occurred. Various theories of slow oxidation of bark, etc., have been advanced, but Fireman Mills believes that a small meteor is responsible for the inception. John D. Moffitt" (Six Twenty-Six)
February 1937: "Lookout-Fireman Mills, stationed on Huckleberry Butte reported a fire July 14, to which he was dispatched. Upon arrival at the scene of action he found a large white fir burning in the top, some 80 feet from the ground. Assisted by a local cooperator, he felled the tree and upon examination of the top, found a mass of clinker like formation, approximately 10-inches in diameter, imbedded in the nest of coals in the burned hollow.
Close examination of the clinker leads one to believe that it is of metallic origin. No blasting operations had been carried on in this vicinity, and some two weeks had elapsed since a lightning storm had occurred. Various theories of slow oxidation of bark, etc., have been advanced, but Fireman Mills believes that a small meteor is responsible for the inception. John D. Moffitt" (Six Twenty-Six)