HISTORY - EMBEDDED IN A TREE

Lon Longmire, who aided his grandfather in establishing the first permanent settlement in what is now the Park, pointed it out and explained its significance.

Thirty years or so ago, when their hard pioneer labors began to be rewarded by some measure of well earned leisure, James Longmire swung a hammock between two cedars on the slope overlooking his springs. Nailed fast to each tree, and used as supporting irons through which the ropes of the hammock were passed and tied, was a horse shoe, But the years have witnessed many changes in this locality. The rough, uneven road over which the buckboards rattled around the bend into "Longmire's Springs" is now replaced by a smooth, gravelled highway over which the cars of more modern visitors glide easily to a higher objective -- Paradise Valley. But while the hammock has long since fallen into discard, and one tree is dead, the horse shoes remain-- imbedded in the wood which has been laid on since the day when James Longmire first nailed them to these trees. In the dead tree half a horse shoe protrudes while the living tree has obscured all evidence of its moments.

A VAIN ATTEMPT AT RESCUE

Who killed Cock Robin? A Douglas Squirrel -- at least such was the case in this episode, for the happy family life of a pair of these well known birds was rudely terminated when death, in the form of the squirrel stalked into the newly hatched brood.

The shrill, frightened cries of the robin brought help from the house upon whose porch the house was built -- but too late. Already the marauder had killed one fledgling, and while he was driven from the scene of the crime and later pursued up and down the trunk of the tree in which he had sought refuge by the adult birds, the mother has failed to return (several hours later) to the nest in order that she might continue with her domestic duties.