TEXAS
SPURGER
Tyler County Texas Forest Service
STATE FOREST #4
CARTERS
Wood County
MISC.
November 1930: "New cooperative agreements entered into by the Texas Forest Service and a group of landowners provided for intensive fire protection on 250,000 acres of land in Polk, Tyler, Hardin, and Liberty Counties. The owners are the W.T. Carter & Bro. Lumber Co., the Kirby Lumber Co., the Texas Longleaf Lumber Co., and John Henry Kirby. Practically all the land is well stocked with second-growth shortleaf and longleaf pine are included. The gross acreage that must be covered in protecting the unit is approximately 500,000.
Two steel lookout towers, one 95 and one 120 feet in height, have been erected. At four points lookout platforms have been built in tall trees steadied by guy wires and have been made accessible by steel ladders. These, as well as the towers, have telephone connections and are equipped with maps and fire finders. The protection force will include 2 lookout men, 2 patrolmen, and 4 smokechasers. Thirty farmers will hold themselves in readiness for service as forest guards." (The Forest Worker)
Two steel lookout towers, one 95 and one 120 feet in height, have been erected. At four points lookout platforms have been built in tall trees steadied by guy wires and have been made accessible by steel ladders. These, as well as the towers, have telephone connections and are equipped with maps and fire finders. The protection force will include 2 lookout men, 2 patrolmen, and 4 smokechasers. Thirty farmers will hold themselves in readiness for service as forest guards." (The Forest Worker)