DONKEN
Houghton County - State Department of Conservation
August 8, 1922: "The tower at Donken is 65 feet high and is built of angle iron. It is a skeleton affair, with a platform and a roof on the top. This platform will be enclosed with canvass which can be taken down in the winter.
From this platform an observer armed with a pair of powerful field glasses, can look over the countryside for many miles. The minute he detects a curl of smoke he can locate it on his map and give the warning. If the smoke is under observation from two towers at once, its exact location can be determined by intersection." (Battle Creek Enquirer)
From this platform an observer armed with a pair of powerful field glasses, can look over the countryside for many miles. The minute he detects a curl of smoke he can locate it on his map and give the warning. If the smoke is under observation from two towers at once, its exact location can be determined by intersection." (Battle Creek Enquirer)
August 17, 1922: "The forest fire observation tower at Donken, in Elm River township, is about completed and will be in use before the forest fire season this fall, according to an announcement by H. J. Keopp, state district forest fire warden, of Marquette, who came to Houghton to inspect the new tower." (The Yale Expositor)
1922: A steel tower was erected. (Biennial Report - The Department of Conservation)