46 THE BLACK BEAR OF PENNSYLVANIA 



over two miles. Chauncey E. Logue, now a state 

 game protector, captured a black bear in Otzinachson 

 Park, Clinton County, before the law forbidding trap- 

 ping these animals went into effect in 1915, and fas- 

 tened it to its pen by a stout collar and chain. During 

 the night the bear snapped the chain, worked its way 

 under the heavy wire fence of the -park, and departed 

 for '.'parts unknown." Just one year later Mr. Logue's 

 brother killed the same bear, with the chain and collar 

 still attached, near his home on Brooks' Run, in Cam- 

 eron County, sixty miles from where it had made its 

 escape a year previously. 



J. H. Chatham, widely quoted authority on wild 

 life topics, says that the earliest hunters in Central 

 Pennsylvania always recognized two distinct colors of 

 bears, consequently they never spoke of the generic 

 term "bear," but always of a red bear or a black bear. 

 The bear pens of yesterday will be he "Indian forts," 

 cromlechs and cairns of tomorrow. For a number 

 of years the Simcox boys, of Sugar Valley Hill, Clin- 

 ton County, had been telling of an "Indian fort," 

 built of stones, on top of Bald Eagle Mountain, but 

 when the writer, accompanied by W. J. Phillips and 

 his son, J. Earle Phillips, of M(fElhattan, visked the 

 supposed "fortification" in HUG. .it was found to be 

 a stone bear pen, built on th^e side of a rocky ridge or 

 fin on the very comb of the ^mountain the type used 

 with a revolving trap door dn 'the roof. Nearby the 

 writer found an ancient iron bear trap with chain and 

 drag attached, which relics are now on exhibition at 



