THE REMAINS OF TWYFORD’S BONFIRE. 
forced them up in this peculiar fashion on 
this level ground, and which cut or split 
them so evenly, no one knows, but they 
are there and here you see images of them. 
We found on Wilcox’s pass a dead and 
blackened spruce tree to which hangs a 
tale. You can not see it yet, but I will un- 
fold it, so you may read it, thus: 
In 1899, one Henry Twyford, an English- 
man, camped within too feet of where this 
tree stands. He had visited that country 
for the purpose of hunting sheep. One day 
he went over the Divide, 4 or 5 miles from 
this point, found a bunch of sheep and 
killed 2 of them. He returned to camp 
feeling jubilant, and after dinner that night 
proceeded to celebrate by setting fire to the 
dead under branches of the fir tree. They 
were as dry as tinder and burned like a 
kerosene barrel. They created such a heat 
that the flames leaped up through the green 
branches and consumed the foliage as if it 
had been chaff. 

RECREATION. 
As soon as the fire got fairly started, Mr. 
Twyford and his guide discovered, to their 
horror, that the wind blew directly from 
the tree toward camp. ‘The air was filled 
with thousands of sparks, which descended 
on the camp like hail on a Dakota wheat- 
field. The dry grass and moss about the 
tree were at once ignited and the fire start- 
ed toward the tents; slowly, as good 
luck had it, but surely. The nearest 
water was a little creek some 200 yards 
away, and the only vessels the party had to 
carry water in were 3 little pails which held 
about 2 quarts each. They grabbed these 
and lit out for the creek, hitting only the 
high places. In the darkness these got in 
the way of their feet, and each man tumbled 
end over’end several times before reaching 
the creek. They took water and _ then 
walked slowly and carefully back to the 
conflagration. They sprinkled the water 
deftly and frugally about with their hands, 
checking the fire slightly, but the little 
pails were soon empty. Then each man 
had to make another dash for the creek. 
Meantime, though the fire was checked in 
one place, it’ spread in another, and time 
and again the beleaguered campers thought 
it was all off with them; that their outfit 
would be burned in spite of them and that 
the fire would destroy thousands of acres 
of adjacent forest besides. The laws of 
that country provided a fine of $300 for 
NATURAL PIPE WRENCHES. 
