CARTER MOUNTAIN
Oklahoma Lookouts - McCurtain County - Oklahoma Forestry Service
1927?: The second tower erected in the state was a wood tower, no information on particulars.
January 23, 1930: "A total of 2,100 people from 20 states and Canada registered at the 55 foot steel fire lookout tower maintained by the Oklahoma Forest Service near Carter Mountain 18 miles north of Broken Bow, during 1929, according to George R. Phillips, State Forester. The largest registration was from Oklahoma, 1,807, with Texas, 148, and Arkansas, 76, next in line. Visitors from New Jersey and California represented the farthest away states.
A view of over 20 miles in 3 directions and about 10 miles in the fourth can be obtained from the tower of the rugged forested land of McCurtain County." (The Snyder Signal-Star)
June 23, 1930: "prompt action on the part of an Oklahoma ranger today saved a 3 year old child from possible death by burns, an official report received at the state forestry bureau by George Phillips, forester, disclosed.
Buddy Baker, for four years a watchman on Carter Mountain, in the Pushmataha forest region, spotted a column of smoke about two miles from his tower. He reported to the forest office at Broken Bow and ran to the scene.
He found a log and a large patch of grass burning in a berry pickers' camp. Flames had surrounded a bundle of bedding on which the 3 year old boy was sleeping. Baker stamped out the flames just as the fringes of bedding began to smoulder, the report said." (Ardmore Daily Ardmoreite)
1936: A 100-foot Aermotor tower with a 7x7 steel cab was erected.
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