Show SNOW IS DEEP DEE AT LOON CREEK Lost Packer Developing and Local Men Making Ready for Placer Operations John Boyle superintendent of the Lost Packer properties In ln Inthe Inthe the Loon Creek district Idaho came down from camp Tuesday night being called call home borne through th ough the Illness of a ayoung ayoung young oung son SOh He reports that snow is ls twenty feet teet deep on the divide between Custer and Loon creek while there is four or five feet at the mine Devel Development Development Development work through the various tun tunnels tunnels tunnels nels Is 15 all that is being attempted dur during during durIng ing the winter and he says it will likely be the middle of or June or the first of ot July before the roads to camp are arc open to heavy hellY teaming The mine he says I is looking fine Mr Boyle Is interested J Frank Judge in a big enterprise that they launched on Loon creek creck about three miles below the Lost Packer prop property property property erty last fall By the middle of ot sum Ium summer summer mer or early in the fall he expects that the big ditch and flume through which water is to be conveyed to operate two hydraulic giants and furnish power for other purposes will be com corn completed completed He says sas that the sawmill they the have installed has been working on the lumber and timbers for lor trestles etc that is to enter into the construction of the several thousands of feet of four by b six Elx feet teet flume and that about fifty per percent percent percent cent of ot the ditch and flume work Is now completed The placers pincers are arc located at ata ata ata a much lower altitude than the Lost Packer mine and work can van be bc com corn commenced commenced in April It will not be possible to get the pipe line and other equip equipment equipment ment meet In however until the roads across the divide will wilt permit of heavy hauling so the seasons run rtin this Ulis year eur will not be bea a long one These Theae placers produced In Inthe inthe Inthe the early carl days das not less than in coarse gold by the crudest kind of methods of operation and Mr Ir Boyle Is sanguine that big money will be bc made when he lie and his associates get at it right Mr Boyle expects to move his family down to the coast for the benefit of his young oung sons health and as soon as pos possible possible sible he will return to Loon Loot creek |