NINE MILE POINT
Flathead National Forest - 32N-20W-33
August 26, 1940: "Exhausted from hunger and evidently hundreds of miles of flight, a carrier pigeon was picked up Sunday by Orville Moen and Clarence Watters at the Nine Mile Lookout on the North Fork where it had landed on a stump.
A metal leg band on the bird gave rise to the belief that it might have been carrying coded messages, although Chief of Police Levi Gaustad said after seeing the metal he thought possibly the band was for identification purposes.
Letters and numbers on the band read, PS 30 R741.
Mr. Moen is stationed on the lookout and was being visited by Watters when the pigeon alighted on the stump. They were able to capture it with little difficulty." (The Daily Inter Lake)
A metal leg band on the bird gave rise to the belief that it might have been carrying coded messages, although Chief of Police Levi Gaustad said after seeing the metal he thought possibly the band was for identification purposes.
Letters and numbers on the band read, PS 30 R741.
Mr. Moen is stationed on the lookout and was being visited by Watters when the pigeon alighted on the stump. They were able to capture it with little difficulty." (The Daily Inter Lake)
July 1, 1955: "Honeymooning on a mountain top are Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Hodapp, Jr. who were married June 20. He is a Korean war veteran and University of Minnesota forestry student. Their home for the summer is Nine Mile lookout in Glacier View district of the Flathead National Forest." (Hungry Horse News)
August 23, 1971: "The 35-foot tower is combination home and office for Karen Hey this summer as she serves as a Forest Service lookout at Ninemile Lookout north of Columbia Falls. With four well-glassed walls it has, she says, 'the privacy of a bird cage.'" (The Daily Inter Lake)
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