CASSIA COUNTY
PIKE MOUNTAIN
Minidoka National Forest
April 26, 1941: One of the items on the CCC work list was: "Construction of a lookout (fire) on the top of Pike mountain." (Idaho Evening Times)
July 2, 1941: "One of the most potentially valuable additions to the area is a road to the top of Pike mountain, which towers 8,000 feet across the valley from Magic Mountain proper. Pike mountain-- second highest pinnacle in the area affords a view without equal in the Magic Valley, for, from the point on which a lookout station is to be constructed, it is possible to view the Sawtooths to the north, Mt. Harrison on the east and then the Promontory point on the west shore of Salt Lake, as well as the Jarbidge, Nev., range to the west." (Twin Falls News)
July 11, 1941: "Lookout station is being posted on Pike mountain, 28 miles south of Hansen. A shelter, telephone and fire finder will be placed there with a ranger or CCC enrollee on duty this summer." (Idaho Evening Times)
July 23, 1941: "Curtis E, Price, supervisor of the Minidoka national forest, this week announced that the fire lookout on Pike mountain was completely set up and in force and a map and alidade have been stationed at the Evans ranch, four miles south of Kimberly. By sighting smoke from both forest lookout points, the local office can quickly be notified and locate any blaze which might start in the forest this year." (Idaho Evening Times)
July 30, 1941: "Three lightning fires burned over 80 acres of Minidoka national forest land Sunday evening in the west Cassia division.
The flashes struck about 4:300 p.m. and it was after 10 p.m. before the blaze was under control. In charge of fire fighting were Ranger Elmer C. Ross, Twin Falls, J.W. Green, Rogerson, and O.S. Butler, Kimberly.
This fire was the first one to be reported to local headquarters from the new lookout point on Pike mountain." (Idaho Evening Times)
December 6, 1960: "This year two emergency lookouts, one on Pike peak in the Magic mountain area and the second on Horton peak in Sawtooth valley, were manned during the fire season." (The Times-News)
1961: Trailer (Kresek)