MINNESOTA LOOKOUTS
CASCADE
Cook County
Superior National Forest
61N-2W-23
Superior National Forest
61N-2W-23
June 15, 1922: "EIGHTY FOOT STEEL LOOK-OUT ERECTED ON CASCADE PEAK" "Though tired and battle scarred from their recent fight with flames at Four Mile Creek, Ranger Bayle and his crew went to Cascade Peak last Monday and started to raise the tower which they had hauled in last winter and put together as they could this spring. The great structure was just ready to have the blocking slipped on over a week ago when the fire call came. They dropped their work and went to Four Mile creek.
As this tower will be of inestimable value in locating fires as they start, and so give the ranger a chance to put them out before they gain a formidable size, Mr. Bayle turned his efforts again toward erecting it early Monday morning. The tall edifice was finally in place at 6:30 P.M. Tuesday..
The two rear legs had hardly touched their base, the guy wires just wrapped temporarily around trees, when Ranger Bayle climbed to the very top of the swaying structure. He was closely followed by his clerk, Mr. Metcalf, who has been at his rangers side practically day and night since he was assigned to this district over a month ago.
Many obstacles were met in raising the Look-Out Station. One of the chief of these was the great swarms of black flies which nearly drove the hardy crew out of their heads Tuesday, the men not being able to drive them off, having both hands occupied with jack, pole, crank or guy wire.
This is the first and tallest of three such towers which The Minnesota Forest Service will erect in this district under Mr. Bayle's supervision. They will all be put up this season.
Some of the crew refused to climb her until after a firm foundation has been put under all four feet. As at the base there is a sixteen foot spread, there is no danger in mounting to the look-out, though the top did sway in the high wind last Tuesday." (The Cook County News-Herald)
As this tower will be of inestimable value in locating fires as they start, and so give the ranger a chance to put them out before they gain a formidable size, Mr. Bayle turned his efforts again toward erecting it early Monday morning. The tall edifice was finally in place at 6:30 P.M. Tuesday..
The two rear legs had hardly touched their base, the guy wires just wrapped temporarily around trees, when Ranger Bayle climbed to the very top of the swaying structure. He was closely followed by his clerk, Mr. Metcalf, who has been at his rangers side practically day and night since he was assigned to this district over a month ago.
Many obstacles were met in raising the Look-Out Station. One of the chief of these was the great swarms of black flies which nearly drove the hardy crew out of their heads Tuesday, the men not being able to drive them off, having both hands occupied with jack, pole, crank or guy wire.
This is the first and tallest of three such towers which The Minnesota Forest Service will erect in this district under Mr. Bayle's supervision. They will all be put up this season.
Some of the crew refused to climb her until after a firm foundation has been put under all four feet. As at the base there is a sixteen foot spread, there is no danger in mounting to the look-out, though the top did sway in the high wind last Tuesday." (The Cook County News-Herald)
June 22, 1922: "Patrolmen Peterson, Tunmore, Gilstad, Nelson and Anderson were in Grand Maris over the week-end after erecting the Look-Out on Cascade Peak. They went to Clearwater Lake to begin operations on the Palisade Look-Out station after visiting the polls Monday morning." (The Cook County News-Herald)
July 6, 1922: "John Metcalf of the Forestry Department is staying at the Cascade 'Lookout.' " (The Cook County News-Herald)
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