MONTGOMERY RANCH
Tehama County - California Department of Forestry
July 8, 1930: "Merrill Swain and Roy Wright, members of the rural fire department, are today installing a telephone on Montgomery Peak to speed up reports from the Montgomery ranch lookout. Formerly it was necessary for the lookout to travel several hundred yards to the ranch headquarters to report a fire." (Red Bluff Tehama County Daily News)
May 12, 1932: "Construction of a county lookout on Montgomery Peak west of Red Bluff has been completed this week, Gossett reports. Elmer Peasley will go on duty June 1 in the new 20 foot lookout station. The upper floor is for observation and below is the living quarters." (The Corning Daily Observer)