BLACK CAT MOUNTAIN #63
Piscataquis County - Maine Forestry District
August 9, 1919: "Steel towers were added: Black Cat mountain, T1R9, Piscataquis county, 42 feet high." (Daily Kennebec Journal)
1919: A 48-foot steel tower was erected. (1919 Annual Report of the Forest Commissioner)
1919: "We built a 48-foot steel tower on Black Cat Mountain, 1 Range 9. This tower was fitted with table, map, glass alidade; and two telephones--one connecting with the Great Northern Paper Company line, central at warden's home at Millinocket; the other connecting onto Charles Daisey's line reaching the sporting camp section to the west branch. We used about one and one-quarter miles of wire here. We built a watchman's camp, put telephone in this; camp is 14x20, sawed lumber. This camp was furnished with everything to make a man comfortable." (Forest Protection and Conservation in Maine, 1919)
1920: Inventory shows a 48-foot steel tower.
Removed