PLUMAS COUNTY

CAMEL PEAK

Plumas National Forest

June 6, 1929:   "Tom Gray has gone to Camel Peak, near La Porte, where he will be employed as forest lookout during the fire season."   (Plumas Independent)

November 28, 1929:   "Tom Gray, well known Quincy resident has returned from Camel Peak, some 12 miles west of La Porte, this county, where he has been in the employ of the forest service as fire lookout for that portion of the county."   (Plumas Independent)

November 5, 1931:   "Tom Gray, veteran lookout man for the forest service, who has been stationed on the lookout at Camel Peak all summer, returned to his home here last week."   (Plumas Independent)

November 10, 1932:   "Tom Gray, stationed at Camel Peak, near Cascade, by the forest service, as fire lookout returned to Quincy the last of the week, and is arranging to take up winter quarters at his home near Quincy."   (Plumas Independent)

October 17, 1935:   "Thos. Gray, lookout man from the Camel Peak station, was called in from a season of service the last of week by the Forest Service.  The season was comparatively short and but few fires were reported in from his station."   (Plumas Independent)

May 28, 1936:   "Thomas Gray, employed for the past eight years by the Forest service at their lookout station near Cascade, leaves for that point next week, where he will resume his duties for this summer, commencing June 1st."   (Plumas Independent)

March 9, 1939:   "Thomas W. Gray, dean of Plumas National Forest lookout men, resigned this week, D.N. Rogers, supervisor of the forest, announced.
      Gray entered the service July 14, 1918.  He served as a lookout on Ben Lomond under District Ranger Henry A. Kloppenburg and on Pilot, Pike County and Camel Peaks under Wm. Hayes and E.E. Boehm of the La Porte Ranger District.  He is 69.
      His last station was Camel Peak, overlooking the rugged Middle Fork of the Feather River.  He occupied the Camel Peak lookout station through the summer of 1938."   (Feather River Bulletin)

July 25, 1946:   "That airplane pilots are cooperating in the detection of fires in the Plumas national forest was substantiated by Joe Miguel, lookout at the forest's Camel Peak station this week.  A fire starting in the logging operation area of Feather river pine mills less than two miles south of Camel Peak a week ago was discovered by an army pilot flying cross country.  The pilot sighting Camel Peak lookout, flew over and around it to get the lookout man's attention, after which he dropped the following message on a streamer:  'Fire on ridge south of your station.  No persons around it.  Acknowledge by waving towel.'
      The fire reported in this instance was quickly corralled within an area approximately eight acres through prompt action in the use of bulldozing equipment by a Feather River Pine Mills logging crew."   (Portola Reporter)