JEFFERSON COUNTY
FINLEY PEAK
Olympic National Forest
24N-9W-12
24N-9W-12
July 30, 1920: "R.L. Fromme, supervisor of the Olympic national forest, has appointed Mavie Olsen, pioneer school teacher, as lookout at the 'Finley Fire' station 12 miles northeast of Lake Quinault. She is the first woman lookout appointed for the Olympic forest. Her duty is to watch for forest fire signs from her lofty station and report their location by telephone to patrolmen." (Mason County Journal)
July 3, 1921: "Efficiency in airplane forest patrol would be increased if the base were changed from Camp Lewis to Humptulips field, according to W.J. Peath of the forestry service, in a statement to the Hoquiam Commercial club yesterday.
Efficiency would be trebled as far as the Quinault reservation is concerned, he stated, and would be improved for all the Olympic district. Taking observations from Finley lookout is unsatisfactory, he explained, and under the present system the plans can make only one trip a day over the area. Six trips a day could be made out of Humptulips, he said." (The Morning Oregonian)
July 4, 1921: "The army planes are giving excellent service in the detection of fires in the peninsula and their records for speed and accuracy in reporting of fires have been a revelation and surprise to Supervisor of Forests Fred E, Pape, of the state department here, and with the establishment of the new Finley lookout wireless station above Lake Quinault, even the smallest sign of smoke is reported to the department in Olympia within a few minutes after its detection." (The Morning Oregonian)
July 8, 1921: "Edwin Wilson, son of Judge J.M. Wilson, is in charge of a radio observation station on the Finley lookout in the Olympic national forest. He has the wireless station established by the government there to report forest fires and to receive reports from the airplane patrol wireless. His station looks out over most of Jefferson county, from just across the Grays harbor county line.
Mr. Wilson maintained an unusually effective amateur wireless station at his home in Olympia from which he nightly enjoyed the privilege of pulling wireless messages out of the air from all over the western hemisphere. He assembled the materials mostly from discarded equipment and built the plant himself." (The Mason County Journal)
June 30, 1932: " 'Too much snow' was the verdict brought back from a Skyline Trail trip taken by Pete Mattson, Oiva Knute and Emil Yuni of Aberdeen this week. They returned from a three-day trek to the Olympics. They tramped about 10 miles along the trail before being turned back by huge drifts of snow. Beyond the Finley ridge lookout station snow is from four to ten feet deep they said." (The Centralia Daily Chronicle)
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