"The lookout cabin at Whiskey Peak was destroyed by fire Sunday, caused by fire starting near the flue. Cal Winningham, lookout man, tried hard to put out the fire but wood, which is stored inside caught on fire, making it impossible. The government loss was $1,000 and Mr. Winningham lost his clothing and bedding. Whiskey Peak is about eight miles from the Steamboat Road."
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This story appeared in the October 11, 1929 issue of the "Medford Mail Tribune". The actual cause of the fire was that Cal was on the roof, cleaning out the chimney, when a gust of wind came out of nowhere and hot ashes where blown out of the stove, through the open stove door. Whiskey Peak is on the old Star Ranger District of the Rogue River National Forest.
