MISC. NOTES - WEST VIRGINIA
November 1928: "The forest fire protection budget approved in July by the West Virginia Game and Fish Commission for the ensuing fiscal year provides for three new steel observation towers and about 60 miles of telephone line. The largest of the towers will be 73 feet high and will stand at the crest of Stone Coal Mountain in Raliegh County. A 60-foot tower will be erected near Lone Star School, in Wyoming County, and one 47 feet high at Burning Rock, Wyoming County. Each of the towers will have an inside stairway and a glass-inclosed 'crow's nest,' and at the base a metal house to be used by rangers who stay at the observation point overnight. The construction of the three towers will cost about $6,000." (The Forest Worker)