Florence A Packard, son of Amynander and Anna Self Walker Packard.Died 1932 in Payson, Arizona. Florence was a resident of Tonto Basin, Arizona. He owned and operated the store known as Packard store, which he renamed for the pumpkin growing contests he held there. The little settlement is now known as Punkin Center. The school was called Packard School.Florence & Sarah"Linkie" Harer Packard were the parents of Annie Josephine Packard Russell.
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AN ARIZONA LION HUNTER

Why Packard Uses a Rifle of Only

Twenty-Two Caliber.

From The Globe-Times.

Florence Packard, who lives In Greenback

Valley, Glla county, Ariz., has a remarkable

record as a hunter of mountain lions.

He has killed scores of them, and last year

alono his record was thirty three scalps.

The mountain lions of Arizona aro most

destructive to the herds of horses and cattle.

The risk of life and difficulties attending

their destruction has caused the Lions

to bo more numerous than one would suppose,

and If it were not for rifle bounty paid

by tho county, the stock men would be

short on their cattle and horses. Much of

tho country surrounding Packard's ranch

Is made up of irregular ranges of broken

mountains.

Packard was In The Globe a few days

ago and related some of his adventures.

In tho last twelve months Mr. Packard has

brought to Globe besides thirty-three lions

a few bears, wild cats, coons and foxes.

He does not consider It worth while to

count the small game. The dogs for this

work are a cross between the fox and

bloodhound. Usually four dogs are in the

pack. The two youngest are yoked together,

another is trained to scout, whose

•work is to go ahead and around for the

scent of lion or bear, and when the scent

Is found, the oldest dog Is put on the track,

and to his credit, it is said, never fails to

find the animal. Packard says he has frequently

followed this dog over fifteen miles

before tho lion was found. Up to this date

seventy-one lion scalps are to the credit

of this dog. Tho dog Is not a fast trailer,

but very careful, and considering the roughness

of the country, the dog Is remarkable.

Most of the animals are found In the rocky

dirts, but when hard pressed seldom enter

the many openings, but will back against

the bluff or rocks and fight the dogs. The

lion prefers trees, but their scarcity affords

little protection in this locality.

It was last August that Packard's methodical

mode of hunting was changed a

little. The dog* came up to where a lion

had killed a deer. The dogs took the trail,

followed It for some five miles and ran It

up a tree. This animal waa a large tom

lion, whose scalp was soon -secured. Packard

started for home, but on the way the

dogs scented another animal and followed

It for several miles, leading to a high,, rocky

bluff, following tho edge some 800 feet to

where It broke off. led down and under,

and here the dogs had the lion cornered.

Packard could not got sight of his game,

and had to work around among the rocks,

and In doing so came up to where the dogs

were and faced tho lion, which was just

under a ledge of rock, although this opening

ran In and afforded the lion safety.

Tho lion no sooner saw the (hunter than,

with a mighty bound. It went over Mr.

Packard's head and landed all of twenty five

feet below. The dogs were after him.

forcing the lion again on the bluff, where

he was surrounded and compelled to back

toward the bluff, over which he went, tall

first for twenty-five feet, holding on to the

almost perpendicular sides wltlh his claws,

until the remaining distance of some twenty-

five feet, he bad to let go and fell near

tho hole he was treed In. This hole did not

go In very far, but it forked a. few feet

from the entrance, where the lion was.

Packard said It was nonsense to go In.

as the lion would see him flrst, and that

there was no way that he could use his

gun or knife after crawling In, the hole

being so small. This lion was abandoned

until next day, but a heavy rain came up

and obliterated tho trail. This last the only

lion Packard bas lost.

At another time Packard wns equally

surprised. His dogs had a lion under a.

rock some six feet high, and believing the

best place for him was on top of this rock,

he mounted, but no sooner dad be reac

ed

It than the lion came from under and landed

within two feet of the first occupant.

The lion had no sooner landed than a ball

from Packard's gun struck him In the neck

and rolled him off.

Packard was asked if he was scared, and

replied, no. but a little surprised. He said

If a man will keep cool and not to lose his

head there Is no danger.

Packard says a lion will eat coon and wild

cats when very hungry. The male lions

generally run by themselves and are Very

vicious. Female lions have been found that

were literally cut to pieces by the tom

lions.

The bears are the shyest of all game.

Having poor eyes and good ears, the least

noise drives them off a good ways. It may I

surprise some hunters to know that a '

twenty-two rifle is used by Packard for

killing these animals. If a heavy gun is .

used the force of the shot would knock the I

animal out of trees or rocks 'before dead

and likely cause the death of some of the

dogs. The lion In easily killed by a small

ball when well aimed. ___