CROOK COUNTY
INGRAM POINT
Ochoco National Forest
12S-18E-19
12S-18E-19
1919: A fire finder installed at the lookout.
July 15, 1920: "The forest service is going to erect a platform on this point for the purpose of the observer. It will be about 8 feet square and 75 feet above the ground. A telephone, fire finder and map will be placed on this platform for the benefit of the man stationed there. He will be connected with Dude Demaris who is cooperative ranger and fireman, located at Highland Flat, by the Mill Creek drift fence which will be used as a telephone line.
Under the supervision of Jack Dobry, a new road is being constructed up Mill Creek to the summit of the mountain. Three men are working with him and it is probable that the road will be finished in about two weeks. They are within one mile of the summit at this time and it will be possible to get to the Divide Ranger Station by auto." (Crook County Journal)
August 5, 1920: "V.V. Harpham returned from Lookout Mountain Thursday evening, after spending several days there erecting a lookout platform on Tamarack, near Divide Ranger Station. Wayne Adamson will be stationed there during the summer months." (Crook County Journal)
September 16, 1920: "Wayne Adamson, who has been acting as lookout man at Divide Station for the past couple of months returned to Prineville September 1st. He has been temporarily succeeded by E.E. Harpham who is acting as lookout man in connection with other work in that section of the Forest." (Crook County Journal)
June 30, 1921: "Within two or three weeks it should be possible to go by road to Divide Ranger Station on the summit of the mountain. This station will be occupied by S.W. Babcock during the fire season, from which point he will man the two lookout points adjacent, viz; Hash Rock and Tamarac Point." (Crook County Journal)
July 14, 1921: "A stub telephone line is being built from the Divide Ranger Station to Tamarack Point and 90-feet into a yellow pine tree to a platform where Norman Harrison is making his home during fire season." (Central Oregonian)
August 19, 1921: "Norman Harrison, the lookout man at Divide, while returning from Hash Rock, was caught in the rain storm and thinking it would only be a shower took refuge under a tree. However, after remaining there for an hour or so, and suffering from cold and wind, he decided - as he put it - he might as well freeze to death, so he returned to camp and at last reports had not been able to get thoroughly dried out." (Central Oregonian)
November 10, 1921: "A new log cabin has been built at Divide R.S. which will be headquarters for the lookout man who occupies Hash Rock and Tamarack Point." (Central Oregonian)
June 28, 1923: "Elmer Hanson of Freewater has taken up his duties at Divide Ranger Station for the summer." (Central Oregonian)
September 1926: "Ray was detained slightly from leaving the lookout tree on account of a bear having taken the notion to camp at the bottom of the tree. Ray did not argue the case with the bear." (The Ochoconian)
September 1926: "On June 26 while Lookout Ray Glasgow was up the lookout tree at Tamarack Point he noticed a black bear preambulating around the base of the tree sniffing at shrubs, trees, etc., evidently trying to locate the humans who had been there. Ray watched the bear several minutes and it went away. He started down the tree to go over to Hash Rock and when he got about half way down the bear came back. This delayed the Hash Rock trip a few minutes more, but finally the bear left--and so did Ray, right now!" (Six Twenty-Six)
July 1927: "Sam Warg, a forestry student from O.A.C., has arrived from Corvallis and is assisting in repairing telephone lines, cleaning trails, and incidentally doing occasional lookout duty at Tamarack Point and Hash Rock on the Mill Creek District. With this preliminary work, coupled with the Deep Creek training course which Mr. Warg will take, he should be well equipped to handle the lookout job at Divide during the present season." (Six Twenty-Six)
October 1927: "Sam Warg, lookout at Divide R.S., leaves today for Corvallis where he will again take up the study of forestry at O.A.C. during the coming winter. We tried to give Sam the Cleveland motorcycle to take along for a souvenir, but Sam declines with something that may have been meant for thanks, though it sounded natural to conditions where a balky horse is connected. J.O.F. Anderson" (Six Twenty-Six)
1927: The lookout only reported one fire for this fire season.
June 1928: :Sam Warg will again be on the job this year as lookout, and will be camped at Tamarack Point. He will also use Hash Rock as a secondary point. His method of travel between points will be by means of the Cleveland motorcycle." (The Ochoconian)
August 23, 1928: From an account of a forest tour by officials and a news reporter:
"Leaving the Divide station, the car was driven to nearby Tamarack Point, where another excursion aloft was made by two members of the party. Tamarack is looked after by Ranger Warg, whose tent quarters are a marvel of neatness." (Central Oregonian)
May 16, 1929: "Paul Whiteis will occupy the lookout at Tamarack point, near Divide ranger station, during the coming fire season. This place has been occupied for several seasons by a forestry student from one of the forestry schools, but since there was no acceptance of the place this year by a forestry student, Paul was engaged to occupy that point." (Central Oregonian)
September 5, 1929: "The lookout at Tamarack Point, Paul Whiteis, is still housed in a tent, but it is planned to erect a cabin next year.
It is on Tamarack Point where a steel observation tower is badly needed. This is a point of observation which should be occupied by the lookout a large portion of the time, and the top of the tree now being used offers little protection for the forest man who occupies it.
All of the observation trees were guyed this year, which relieves the swaying which was formerly not only disagreeable, but rendered the operation of the fire finder difficult." (Central Oregonian)
October 1930: "Paul Whiteis says he does not desire to occupy Tamarack Point next season for the reason that bears are to thick around there. Paul plans to go to school in Portland this winter." (The Ochoconian)
May 11, 1933: "At the meeting of the U.S. geographic board this morning, decision was rendered establishing the name Ingram Point instead of the name Tamarack for a point on the Ochoco forest selected as a lookout point by the late Assistant Regional Forester Ingram.
Mr. Ingram was for many years ranger in charge of the old Mill creek district. Mr. Ingram first used Tamarack Point as a lookout point and it is particularly appropriate that it be given his name.
It is to be remembered that Mr. Ingram met his death in the line of duty on one of the big forest fires which occurred in the State of Washington in 1929." (Central Oregonian)
August 17, 1933: "Harold Hobbs is the foreman for the work of building a 65-foot lookout tower on Tamarack Point." (Central Oregonian)
June 21, 1934: "Mr. and Mrs. Ray Glasgow left this week for Ochoco Ranger Station. Ray is employed by the Forest Service and will have a lookout station in the Mill Creek District.: (Central Oregonian)
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