LANE COUNTY
LOGGER BUTTE
Willamette National Forest
23S-4E-28
23S-4E-28
August 2, 1919: "Three fires were reported this morning by the lookout on Logger butte. The fires were all in the Umpqua district and were reported immediately to the Roseburg office. One blaze was discovered over the Callapooia divide. From the smoke it was estimated the conflagration was of considerable size." (The Eugene Daily Guard)
July 28, 1920: "The Logger Butte lookout, J.E. Blalock, was getting along fine, according to Mr. Macduff." (Morning Register)
June 18, 1925: "Herbert Jones, assistant in the chemical laboratory at the University of Oregon this year, will again be lookout man at the top of Logger Butte, north of Rigdon in the Cascade forest, according to Nelson F. Macduff, supervisor. He is at present employed in the office of the forest." (Morning Register)
October 17, 1925: "Material will soon be ordered for the erection of two lookout stations to be erected at Logger butte and at Larison rock, it was announced this morning in the office of the Cascade national forest. Lookouts have been stationed at these points but the position now requires that new buildings be erected to be in keeping with the other fire prevention improvements.
The lumber will be cut this fall, carried by mule team to the site of the building, and be there ready for construction early next spring, it was announced." (The Eugene Guard)
June 21, 1926: An announcement was made that a lookout will soon be built on Logger butte.
July 9, 1926: "A lookout house at Logger butte in the Oakridge district of the Cascade national forest was started yesterday, it was announced today by R. F. Grefe, supervisor of roads and trails who returned from an inspection trip last evening.
The lookout house is regulation size with sides entirely of glass." (The Eugene Guard)
July 10, 1926: "Mr. Grefe reports that work started July 8 on the lookout house on Logger butte and when this is finished the crew will put up one on Fugi mountain." (Morning Register)
July 31, 1926: "The house on Logger butte has been completed except for the painting, and C.A. Lord, the lookout employed there, will do this work in leisure hours." (Morning Register)
August 13, 1926: "Lookout house on Logger butte on the upper Willamette river five miles above Rigdon ranger station in the Cascade National forest, has been completed, it was announced today by Mr. Moses, chief clerk in the forest office. The station will be used by Charles Lord, lookout at that place." (The Eugene Guard)
September 13, 1926: "Two lookout houses, on Fugi mountain and Loggers' butte have been erected. A new lightning protection system of ground wires from the center of the peaked roof has been installed in all lookout houses. These houses have also been equipped with kerosene stoves." (The Eugene Guard)
January 7, 1927: "Two lookout houses of standard construction were built. One was placed on Logger Butte." (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
January 1927: " The following data submitted by Ranger McFarland covers the packing of a standard lookout house erected on Logger Butte:
Length of pack 6 ½ miles
Max. grade 16%, 0 to 10% 6 miles, 10% and over ½ mile
7 head of pack stock used
2 men, 7 days
45 horse loads
Max. load 210 lbs. Min. load 130 lbs.
Cost of packing $103 (cost of government stock not included. Two horses at $15 and $10 per month charged.)
Condition of stock end of job. Good." (Six Twenty-Six)
August 16, 1928: "E.E. Kilpatrick, principal of the Pleasant Hill high school, was a visitor in Eugene yesterday. Mr.Kilpatrick is spending his vacation on the top of Logger Butte, in the Cascade mountains above Oakridge as a lookout for the Cascade national forest. Mrs.Kilpatrick and their two children have spent part of the summer there with him." (Morning Register)
August 19, 1928: "What Cascade forest officials described as iron nerve was exhibited by Mrs. E.E. Kilpatrick, wife of the lookout on Logger Butte, above Oakridge. Friday night when she stopped the approach of a large cougar with a bullet sent through the animal's heart.
Just before dusk Mrs. Kilpatrick started down the trail for water, which is carried for a distance of about a quarter of a mile to the lookout house on the butte. She carried a .22 calibre rifle and a water bag.
Suddenly a form leaped into the path ahead of her, and she discerned the large cougar coming toward her. Dropping her water bag, Mrs. Kilpatrick fell to one knee, sighted her gun at the animal's shoulder, and fired. The bullet passed through the cougar's heart, and it died almost instantly. She was about 50 feet away when she fired.
Mrs. Kilpatrick went on for her water and returned to the lookout to tell her husband, who during the school years is principal of the Pleasant Hill high school, of her adventure.
When measured, the cougar, a female, was found to be eight feet, six inches long. The following day a sheep man shot a cub cougar in that district, and it is believed Mrs. Kilpatrick killed the cub's mother." (Morning Register)
Just before dusk Mrs. Kilpatrick started down the trail for water, which is carried for a distance of about a quarter of a mile to the lookout house on the butte. She carried a .22 calibre rifle and a water bag.
Suddenly a form leaped into the path ahead of her, and she discerned the large cougar coming toward her. Dropping her water bag, Mrs. Kilpatrick fell to one knee, sighted her gun at the animal's shoulder, and fired. The bullet passed through the cougar's heart, and it died almost instantly. She was about 50 feet away when she fired.
Mrs. Kilpatrick went on for her water and returned to the lookout to tell her husband, who during the school years is principal of the Pleasant Hill high school, of her adventure.
When measured, the cougar, a female, was found to be eight feet, six inches long. The following day a sheep man shot a cub cougar in that district, and it is believed Mrs. Kilpatrick killed the cub's mother." (Morning Register)
August 23, 1935: "Buck Jones, lookout fireman on Logger Butte, is building a wind fan to draw water through a hose from the spring to the lookout station, a distance of 250 feet at a 75 per cent raise." (The Eugene Register-Guard)
September 28, 1935: "Walter Sharp has been sent to Logger Butte to serve as lookout fireman for the forest service until rain falls sufficient to lessen the fire hazard." (The Eugene Register-Guard)
July 8, 1936: "The bride wore a dress of powder blue rough crepe with white accessories. The couple left immediately for Logger Butte where Mr. Jones is employed with the forest service." (The Eugene Guard)
August 23, 1935: "Buck Jones, lookout fireman on Logger Butte, is building a wind fan to draw water through a hose from the spring to the lookout station, a distance of 250 feet at a 75 per cent raise." (The Eugene Guard)
1969: The lookout burned by an arsonist.
Gone