December 1913: Seven Mountain Forest - Greenwood District- "A 55-foot lookout station has been built by the forester and rangers." (Forest Leaves)
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May 21, 1920: "A new wooden fire tower has been erected on the Rothrock State Forest by John A. Bastian, the forester in charge. He has notified the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry that the tower is on the summit of Second Mountain, about one-eighth of a mile from Weitzel Road in Granville Township along the Mifflin and Juaniata county line.
The new fire observation tower is about forty feet high, affording a splendid view of the entire country in that vicinity. Persons who desire to reach the tower are instructed by Forester Bastian to follow the Weitzel Road to the top of the mountain, and there take the trail westward on the mountain top." (Mount Union Times)
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October 14, 1920: "County Commissioners, following a conference yesterday afternoon with State Forestry Commissioner Gifford Pinchot, decided to establish a fire tower in the mountains, preferably at the top of Peter's mountain along the county road, and to offer substantial rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any persons carelessly or intentionally starting a fire in wooded districts.
Whether the county has authority under existing laws to proceed at once with these which will be determined by Solicitor William H. Earnest, who was requested to-day to investigate and make a report as soon as possible." (Harrisburg Telegraph)
October 14, 1920: "The County Commissioners today asked County Solicitor Earnest for an opinion as to whether Dauphin County has legal authority to spend money on the erection of a tower as a fire prevention measure, proposed to be established along the road over Peter's Mountain, not far from Millersburg.
Erection of the tower was suggested by Gifford Pinchot. State Forester, when he conferred yesterday afternoon with the County Commissioners, Pinchot saying that it would be more effective to locate and fight fires in their infancy than to spend a lot of money on chemical tanks. The forester said that chemical tanks will not answer the purpose because the amount of chemicals that would be available would suffice only to extinguish a small portion of a huge forest fire.
With a fire tower, such as is under consideration and which Pinchot said should not cost more than $800 or $1000, the Commissioners said it would be possible to locate any forest fire in the county and a 'copper map' of Dauphin County in the belfry would enable the observer to determine the exact spot. The Commissioners said they expect an early report from the solicitor." (The Evening News)
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April 28, 1920: "Warden Lloyd has been connected on the Blackwell Forest telephone line, placing him in immediate communication with the steel tower at Leetonia (Gleason Hill ??) and the wooden fire tower at Blackwell. (??)" (The Wellsboro Gazette)
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