NO BUSINESS
Valley County - SITPA - 17N-2E-34
1920's: camp (Kresek)
November 15, 1936: "A hungry bear on a bald peak was credited Saturday with renaming a mountain, a creek and the site of the newest lookout station of the Southern Idaho Timber Protective association.
No Business lookout will be installed next spring about 15 miles southwest of McCall. Harry Shellworth, secretary of the association, has completed plans for what he declared would be one of the most modern forest watch towers in southern Idaho. The name itself will be a new departure.
'We are fed up on Bald Mountains,' Shellworth said. 'Every section has two or three Baldys. This latest location had been named Balk Peak. I was afraid of that. Something had to be done about it.'
What they did about it was the result of a little historical research into actual facts.
A Weiser sheepman several years ago had a camp on the peak. His sheep herder was new at the business. A few days after he went to the hills he showed up at headquarters. It seems a bear had disputed his right to the range. The sheep went in all directions. The herder hit for town.
'Too wild,' he told his boss. 'A sheep herder has no business on the mountain.'
No Business lookout will be fashioned on the same lines as Packer John lookout near Smith's Ferry. At an elevation of more than 8000 feet it will command a wide area of forest and lake and give the timber association eyes in a section not before so closely supervised.
The station will be reached by way of McCall on a road to the west of the Payette river's north fork." (The Idaho Statesman)
1937: A 20x20 two-story laced log structure was erected using Civilian Conservation Corps labor. (Payette Valley Sentinel)
September 6, 1966: "Three small forest fires ranging in size from a half-acre to less than a quarter-acre were controlled Monday by Forest Service smokejumpers in the Boise and Payette National Forests.
Eight smokejumpers were dropped on the half-acre blaze about five miles northwest of Sagehen reservoir in Boise National Forest. Several aerial drops for fire retardant helped douse the lightning-caused fires.
Two, fires, one north of New Meadows on Partridge Creek and the other southeast of No Business Lookout in Payette National Forest were less than a quarter-acre in size and controlled by four smokejumpers.
Forest Service officials blamed lightning for the Partridge Creek fire, but were no sure what caused the other." (The Idaho Free Press)
September 6, 1966: "Three small forest fires ranging in size from a half-acre to less than a quarter-acre were controlled Monday by Forest Service smokejumpers in the Boise and Payette National Forests.
Eight smokejumpers were dropped on the half-acre blaze about five miles northwest of Sagehen reservoir in Boise National Forest. Several aerial drops for fire retardant helped douse the lightning-caused fires.
Two, fires, one north of New Meadows on Partridge Creek and the other southeast of No Business Lookout in Payette National Forest were less than a quarter-acre in size and controlled by four smokejumpers.
Forest Service officials blamed lightning for the Partridge Creek fire, but were no sure what caused the other." (The Idaho Free Press)