KANE MOUNTAIN
New York - Fulton County
1926: Established with a 60-foot Aermotor tower.
October 4, 1932: "One of the curious things James C. Luff, state fire observer on Kane mountain has discovered in six years at his lofty lofty station is that people will climb the precipitous sides of Kane mountain but are afraid to go 75 feet higher into the observation tower. At the top of the tower is a glass room where Luff sits.
'Many of them don't mind climbing more than 2,000 feet up the steep mountain.' Luff said, 'but they balk at coming into the tower.'
Luff's station may be removed from civilization, but it is not always lonely. Since May he has had 1,500 visitors." (The Daily Messenger)
1988: Staffing of the tower was discontinued following the 1988 fire season.
DESIGNATION - KANE MOUNTAIN FIRE TOWER
PID - OE1804
STATE/COUNTY- NY/FULTON
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - CANADA LAKE (1945)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1942 (KBJ)
THIS TRAVERSE STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 0.7 MILE DUE N OF CANADA
LAKE POST OFFICE, ON THE SUMMIT OF KANE MOUNTAIN, ON LAND OWNED
BY THE NEW YORK STATE CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT. IT IS A FOUR-LEGGED
STEEL STRUCTURE ABOUT 73 FEET HIGH. THE POINT OBSERVED WAS THE
MEASURED CENTER OF THE TOWER TAKEN ON THE GROUND. A TRAVERSE
CONNECTION WAS MADE FROM TRIANGULATION STATION KANE.