TOGO MOUNTAIN
Ferry County - Colville National Forest - 40N-35E-20
July 21, 1933: “ 'Tux' Salisbury with twelve men is building a lookout tower and cabin on Togo mountain.” (Republic News-Miner)
August 1933: "The work being done by the men of the Midget Creek Emergency Conservation Camp, F-6, is construction of a Lookout on Togo Mountain." (Six Twenty-Six)
September 29, 1933: “A 70-foot lookout tower and fireman's cabin was recently completed on Togo mountain, which is located northeast of Curlew about four miles south of the Canadian line. This lookout tower is a decided asset to the Colville Forest because of the fact that from it a considerable amount of country can be observed along the north side of Togo, Independent and Owl mountains, between Danville and Laurier, that cannot be seen by any other lookout on this side of the line. This lookout will be of considerable value to the Canadian forest service, as well as the Colville forest.” (Republic News-Miner)
September 29, 1933: “On Togo mountain the lookout tower has been completed and for a camp site and scenic interest, it cannot be paralleled.
The tower, about 70 feet high with an observatory 7 x 7 feet, stands on a peak at an altitude of 6,200 feet. From this peak one can see Grand Forks, both forks of the Kettle River, the upper part of the Columbia river, Smelter lake to the Northwest, the Queen's highway just over the line as it runs over the summit to Nelson, B.C., Midnight mountain, Copper Butte, the smelter, the farming country, a good many more villages, and the Doukhabor settlement.” (Republic News-Miner)
August 28, 1935: "Vernon Cotton, lookout on Togo mountain, is apparently not only efficient with the fire finder but also with his '.22' calibre rifle, as he has demonstrated by shooting two coyotes and one Canadian lynx from his 70-foot tower." (The Nespelem Tribune)
September 1935: Togo Lookout claims some kind of a record for number of accurate shots. The shots not being at fires but at wild denizens of the forest. To date he has two coyotes and one Canadian lynx to his credit. To make this record more impressive these animals were shot from a 70 foot tower with a 22 caliber rifle, and one of the coyotes was three hundred yards away -- so what chance has a fire when a slinking coyote cannot get by without being seen. Our record to date shows that all fires have been discovered and put out while small, but we all have our fingers crossed. Lester J. McPherson" (Six Twenty-Six)
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