SHASTA COUNTY
SIMS
Shasta National Forest
July 4, 1931: "Assistant Forest Supervisor DeWitt Nelson reported this week that the new lookout station on Sims peak had been completed." (The Searchlight)
July 7, 1944: "Rhae Herron---Sims lookout. She is of the Canyon Campfire Herrons, and this is her second year as a lookout. She served on Girard ridge last year, but she wanted to be nearer her home this season. (So near and yet so far.) (The Dunsmuir News)
August 4, 1944: "Miss Doris Mayer is spending a few days at Sims lookout, the guest of Miss Rhae Herron who is the fire guard." (The Dunsmuir News)
September 15, 1944: "Mr. Erhart will take Mrs. Bessie Cates up to Sims lookout where she will hold forth while Rhae Herron comes down for a well-earned week-end of rest." (The Dunsmuir News)
June 29, 1945: "Sims lookout is well occupied by Martha Glidden who is carrying on the work her husband left when he joined the armed forces. She is assisted by little Mary Martha (one year old) and two goats who furnish lacteal fluid for the little helper." (The Dunsmuir News)
July 27, 1945: "Sergeant Arthur Glidden arrived in Dunsmuir Wednesday morning after nineteen months overseas to spend a thirty-day furlough with his wife and fourteen-months-old daughter, Mary Martha, whom he had never seen.
Mrs. Glidden, who is employed as lookout for the Forest Service at Sims, was granted a two-day leave when her husband arrived. She will return to the lookout station today, accompanied by her husband and baby." (The Dunsmuir News)
August 15, 1947: "An emergency developed this week when the dog owned by Mrs. Mildred Jackson, Sims lookout, was bitten by a rattler. Anti-venom was rushed from the forestry station north of town and the dog is recovering satisfactorily." (The Dunsmuir News)
July 29, 1949: "Miss Dolores Richmond spent a day visiting Barbara Erhart at the forest service lookout station at Sims." (The Dunsmuir News)
August 9, 1962: "A retired school teacher from Oakland, Lenore Broze, the look-out on Sims is putting in her 16th year; Sims and Granite Peak, in the Trinity Lakes district, are only staffed during the extreme fire hazard weather." (The Dunsmuir News)