CURRY COUNTY
SUGARLOAF MOUNTAIN
Coos County Fire Patrol Association
31S-13W-34
31S-13W-34
December 21, 1925: "The lookout stations maintained by Coos FPA are as follows: Sugar Loaf, Sixes River district." (The Coos Bay Times)
March 19, 1926: "Oscar Lumberg, warden in the Allegany district is constructing a standard lookout house on Sugar Loaf mountain at the head of Sixes river in Curry county. The building will be a 12 x 12 structure with glass in four sides to facilitate observation, and with a six foot cupola on top which will also have glass in each side. The station will be equipped with an Osborne fire finder, by the use of which a lookout may locate fires accurately up to about 40 miles distant. This lookout has an elevation of 3000 feet." (The Coos Bay Times)
April 1926: "J.A. Walsh. The wide awake District Warden of the Coos County Fire Patrol Association, is having a new lookout cabin built on Sugar Loaf Mountain, at a cost of about two hundred dollars. It is of the standard lookout house type, with cupola and everything, made of split cedar boards and hewed frame work. Several men figured around five hundred dollars, then an old woodsman came along and contracted the construction for one hundred seventy-five, and will make money at that as he will do the job in about a month. Ranger Jones" (The Siskiyou Bulletin)
April 1926: "J.A. Walsh. The wide awake District Warden of the Coos County Fire Patrol Association, is having a new lookout cabin built on Sugar Loaf Mountain, at a cost of about two hundred dollars. It is of the standard lookout house type, with cupola and everything, made of split cedar boards and hewed frame work. Several men figured around five hundred dollars, then an old woodsman came along and contracted the construction for one hundred seventy-five, and will make money at that as he will do the job in about a month. Ranger Jones" (The Siskiyou Bulletin)
September 7, 1927: "Darrell Rassmussen arrived home today from Sugar Loaf where he has been warden at the fire lookout for the last two months." (The Coos Bay Times)
July 16, 1928: "J.A. Walsh, W.C. Schultz and Ted Rainwater of Coos County Fires Patrol association, will leave Tuesday for Sugar Loaf mountain lookout where they will install a new fire finder. They will be away from Marshfield for a day or two." (The Coos Bay Times)

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