LOHMER
Missouri Lookouts - -Barry County - Mark Twain National Forest - 23N-26W-35
December 12, 1935: "The enrollees of Camp F-20 at Shell Knob, Missouri, under Foreman H. V. Hopkins, are constructing the first 100-foot steel tower on the Table Rock Unit of the Gardiner National Forest. This tower is located on the Farm to Market road 'A' about eleven miles east of Cassville, Missouri, on one of the highest points in Barry county (elevation 1569 feet above sea level).
This is the first 100 foot tower west of the 100 foot experimental wooden tower near Brown Branch, Missouri, on the Pond Fork Unit. The work on the tower proper is nearly complete; work on the lookout cupola will begin about December 10, and the tower should be complete in all details by December 14.
Visitors are always welcome and may climb and inspect the tower at any time, but do so at their own risk." (Cassville Republican)
This is the first 100 foot tower west of the 100 foot experimental wooden tower near Brown Branch, Missouri, on the Pond Fork Unit. The work on the tower proper is nearly complete; work on the lookout cupola will begin about December 10, and the tower should be complete in all details by December 14.
Visitors are always welcome and may climb and inspect the tower at any time, but do so at their own risk." (Cassville Republican)
December 15, 1935: "A 100-foot steel lookout tower in the Table Rock unit of the national forest is nearing completion about 11 miles east of Cassville. The tower is located on one of the highest points in Barry county. The elevation is 1,569 feet above sea level." (Joplin Globe)
May 18, 1940: "Census Enumerator Mornie Loftin says that he had many and varied experiences with dogs, cats, cattle and men, but the one that he had yesterday afternoon really stood his hair on end.
Loftin was taking the census at the Lomersburg forest range fire tower, six miles east of here. Mrs. Otis O'Kelly went to the telephone to call her husband, and then screamed for the census enumerator. A rattlesnake with 10 rattles and a button was guarding the telephone.
Loftin dispatched the snake and finished his enumeration." (Joplin Globe)