CHELAN COUNTY
MISSION PEAK
Wenatchee National Forest
21N-19E-27
21N-19E-27
June 23, 1933: Leavenworth District: Joe Guilberson, Mission Peak lookout-fireman. (The Leavenworth Echo)
July 13, 1934: “Lookout Trub on Three Brothers and Kuntz on Mission Peak reported a small smoke in the head of Schaser Creek Tuesday evening. A crew of CCC boys were called out headed by A.K. Pilgeram and Fremont McComb. After a thorough investigation the smoke was decided to be sheep dust.” (The Leavenworth Echo)
July 13, 1934: “Lookout Trub on Three Brothers and Kuntz on Mission Peak reported a small smoke in the head of Schaser Creek Tuesday evening. A crew of CCC boys were called out headed by A.K. Pilgeram and Fremont McComb. After a thorough investigation the smoke was decided to be sheep dust.” (The Leavenworth Echo)
August 29, 1934: “A new angle on the Quincy Lake bank robbery was revealed here today by Walter Anderson, Fire assistant of the Wenatchee national forest, who has returned from a ten day field trip.
Oscar Kuntz, lookout on Mission peak, heard of the robbery by radio, and the bandits had headed for the hills in his direction. Not so good, he thought.
The lookout lives in a 15 foot tower, reached by an outside ladder that leads to a trapdoor in the cat-walk which surrounds the tower. Late that night he heard the trapdoor slam. 'Here they come,' he thought. He looked for his big police dog and was reassured to see him poised by the trapdoor, his hair bristling, ready to pounce on the intruder.
Again the trapdoor slammed. No chance to keep them out any longer the look-out thought. Shouting that he would 'be there in a minute,' he secured his flashlight, flashed it suddenly down the ladder and saw the biggest Bear he had ever seen. The bear fled precipitately with the racket of a stampede of horses.
The same dog kept him awake during his visit to the peak by chasing wood rats around and around the cat-walk during the night, Anderson related. 'Usually the rats jumped from the platform as the dog gained, but one big fellow thought he was the best runner,' he said. 'They must have six complete revolutions around the tower, their nails rattling on the boards and the dog crashing into the railing as he tried to make the turns under full steam. The dog won." (The Wenatchee Daily World)
Oscar Kuntz, lookout on Mission peak, heard of the robbery by radio, and the bandits had headed for the hills in his direction. Not so good, he thought.
The lookout lives in a 15 foot tower, reached by an outside ladder that leads to a trapdoor in the cat-walk which surrounds the tower. Late that night he heard the trapdoor slam. 'Here they come,' he thought. He looked for his big police dog and was reassured to see him poised by the trapdoor, his hair bristling, ready to pounce on the intruder.
Again the trapdoor slammed. No chance to keep them out any longer the look-out thought. Shouting that he would 'be there in a minute,' he secured his flashlight, flashed it suddenly down the ladder and saw the biggest Bear he had ever seen. The bear fled precipitately with the racket of a stampede of horses.
The same dog kept him awake during his visit to the peak by chasing wood rats around and around the cat-walk during the night, Anderson related. 'Usually the rats jumped from the platform as the dog gained, but one big fellow thought he was the best runner,' he said. 'They must have six complete revolutions around the tower, their nails rattling on the boards and the dog crashing into the railing as he tried to make the turns under full steam. The dog won." (The Wenatchee Daily World)
August 13, 1935: “Mr. and Mrs. Marion Yarnell and daughter Bertha, left Monday to spend a short vacation with their son Clarence, who is working at the look-out station on Icicle.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
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