RAMAPO
New Jersey - Passaic County
September 11, 1918: "Holding that if New Jersey is to appropriate money for a fire observation tower in the Ramapo Mountains for the mutual benefit of New Jersey and New York, the funds will have to come through the Legislature, the commission declined to approve a request from the Department of Conservation and Development for this purpose. Application of the same department for $3,000 to be used in fighting forest fires in South Jersey was held up for further consideration." (Trenton Evening Times)
October 31, 1919: "Permission was requested by R. H. Lindsay, of the New Jersey state board for the conservation of forests, to stretch telephone wires on poles on a farm the city owns in Midvale. The lines he explained were wanted to reach the fire observation tower on the mountains. He was asked to submit a plan showing where the poles would be placed." (The Morning Call)
November 21, 1919: "A representative of the state forest conservation commission produced a map of a farm owned by the city above Midvale and showing the manner in which it was desired to string telephone wires across the property to a fire observation tower on the mountain. A few weeks ago permission had been asked to erect the wires, and the finance commissioners wanted an outline of the proposed work. The map showed the wires erected on poles along the Ringwood Junction-Stonetown road and then across the farm. The necessary permission was granted to erect the wires while the board reserved the right to have them taken down on six months notice." (The Morning Call)