JAYS ROOST
Carbon County - Medicine Bow National Forest
May 13, 1911: "A telephone line will be built to Jays roost, in connection with other lines, where young Mr. Benj. Burch will be stationed.
When these stations have all been completed and manned it will be almost impossible for a fire to grow to great proportions before it is discovered.
The system to be placed into effect this year of locating fires will expedite, materially, the extinguishing.
Every station will be provided with a compass, marked in degrees. When a fire appears, all stations are notified. The pointer is sited toward the fire and all stations in a position to see the fire are consulted, the relative degrees are compared with the distances between the stations, and thus, the location and size of the fire is determined." (Centennial Post)
When these stations have all been completed and manned it will be almost impossible for a fire to grow to great proportions before it is discovered.
The system to be placed into effect this year of locating fires will expedite, materially, the extinguishing.
Every station will be provided with a compass, marked in degrees. When a fire appears, all stations are notified. The pointer is sited toward the fire and all stations in a position to see the fire are consulted, the relative degrees are compared with the distances between the stations, and thus, the location and size of the fire is determined." (Centennial Post)
May 25, 1921: "During especially hazardous fire periods, when the fire danger is most acute, the district forest rangers serve as lookouts on additional secondary lookouts on Jay's Roost, near Keystone, Barrett Ridge at the head of Cottonwood creek, Seven mile on Rock creek divide, and the Bow lookout, near Bow ranger station." (Laramie Republican)
June 9, 1929: "A new steel lookout tower is to be erected by the forest service this spring, replacing the present wooden tower. Bids are now being accepted for the hauling of this tower from the railroad at Foxpark to Keystone and to the top of Jay's Roost mountain." (Casper Star-Tribune)
March 2, 1930: "In order to provide lookout facilities in case of particularly hazardous weather, a steel tower was placed on Jays Roost, a mountain in the heart of the heavily timbered country west of Keystone. This tower, together with others now in place on Barrett ridge, at Long lake and on Bridger peak, will permit of temporary observers being placed at these points in the event of hazardous conditions. Such conditions occurred last season when smoke from the northwest obscured the vision of the primary lookouts on Somber hill and Medicine Bow peak, which are manned continually from June to October." (Casper Tribune-Herald)
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