POWER COUNTY
MOSBY BUTTE
Bureau of Land Management
12S-15E-4
12S-15E-4
1935: cabin (Kresek)
July 3, 1950: "Inside the little glass look-out house is a sending and receiving radio set, location instruments, a gas stove, wood stove, two cots and other essential equipment. The hill boasts a well, but Winter prefers to haul drinking water from a spring not far distance. He is provided with a pickup truck for quick runs to a fire.
Answering a question the old lookout guard replied:
'The sage is greener the hills are bluer, and the sun shines bright. Lonesome? Why I should say not! I have all of the world right here at my feet.' It was with a right cheerful 'goodbye and comeback' that he waved farewell to his guests of the day on Mosby butte, 5,500 feet elevation." (Twin Falls Times News)
August 13, 1950: "The first-year 4-H Foresters from Rockland will have a field day Tuesday. They will meet at the Rockland School at 9 a.m.
Leonard Hull is their leader and Fred Janzen will assist Hull and furnish transportation.
They will visit the Mosby Butte fire lookout station to get some inside information on how range and forest fires are controlled. Joe Winters is the operator of the lookout station operated by the bureau of land management with headquarters in Idaho Falls. Fire crews are called from Shoshone, Burley, and Idaho Falls by short wave radio, depending on the district that the fire is in." (Idaho State Journal)
July 18, 1952: "Joe Winter, a lookout for the Idaho Falls office of the bureau of land management, was in an American Falls hospital Friday with severe burns received while attempting to burn some rattlesnakes from a rock formation Thursday morning.
Winter was returning from Idaho Falls to his station on Mosby Butte when he stopped to burn out a den of snakes from some rocks with gasoline, said Virgil Starr, Idaho Falls district range manager.
The gasoline exploded and Winter received burns on his left arm and hand and lesser burns on his right hand." (The Post-Register)
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