PLUMAS COUNTY
CLAREMONT MOUNTAIN
Plumas National Forest
October 14, 1907: "It is planned to run a telephone line next season to the summit of Claremont mountain, establish a summer ranger camp there, and have this a lookout station during the fire season. This plan has been used with success on some of the other forests." (Plumas National-Bulletin)
November 18, 1907: "In the spring a branch line will be built from Quincy to the summit of Claremont mountain, where a fire lookout will be established during the dry summer months." (Semi-Weekly Plumas National-Bulletin)
May 27, 1909: "In addition to the regular force on the Plumas Forest, the following have been appointed for the summer.
E.M. Bordwell, Edward Clark, J.F. Hartwell, J.M. Hayes, Wm. Hayes, D.A. McMillan and E.L. Varney.
This addition to the field force will provide a more efficient fire patrol than during any summer since the Forest has been created. The fire lookout station on Claremont Mountain south of Quincy will be maintained for the summer season, and with the proposed extensions of the Forest Service telephone lines all the members of the ranger force will be in communication with the Quincy office." (Semi-Weekly Plumas National-Bulletin)
November 4, 1909: "During the past summer season, the Forest officers extinguished or helped to extinguish 85 fires on or adjacent to the Plumas Forest. Local settlers and residents gave valuable assistance in this work in reporting fires and helping to put them out. The fire lookout station maintained on Claremont Mountain proved of such great assistance in locating fires the past summer that it is the intention to establish another lookout station on some high summit in the Forest and connect the two points by telephone. In this manner fires can be quickly and accurately located." (Semi-Weekly Plumas National-Bulletin)
June 14, 1911: "The two lookout peaks--Claremont and Mount Hough--will be maintained. Each station is equipped with telephone connection with headquarters here, a compass, high power glasses and fire location maps laid off in courses of two degrees." (Plumas Independent)