Show t LON LOON GREEK CREEK SAND c q rt MUCH GOL GOLD Preparations Under Way to 3 Work Vork Placer Beds on oni 1 Large Scale Scales i 1 Preparations are being made by the theLon Loon Lon Creek Crek Placer Mining MInn company of which John P Boyle manager of the i I tL Lost Packer mine and Frank Fak Judge Judg of this city are leading interests to work the te placer beds of Loon Lon Creek district J Idaho upon an elaborate scale Flumes and ditches two miles long which will wU give a head of 20 feet feet are ar being con constructed conJ 3 J and ad it is the intention to in Etall stal two hydraulic giants gant The flume is bring being made large enough to carry carr the greater greter portion porton of the water from Loon creek that the bed of the creek may be be 1 worked Working thus from bank bak to bank wU will afford aford a width of about 1000 10 feet of excellent placer ground goUnd 5 i Prospecting the ground gound extensively with wih witha a small sal giant giat machine machne has ha shown that tat CE the te dirt yields yield from 25 2 cents cent to 40 cents a squat e yard ya while the bed bd of the creel creek creel 4 d Is I known kow to contain the te richest ground gound of j all aU Some famous nuggets nugget were taken j I from tam the creek in the old days of placer mining in that region the obtaining of ofIn in gold from a single pan of dirt be being be ing ig well wel authenticated as The situation Is la unusually favorable for asa placer lacer acer mining by modern methods metod with wih a I Success reasonably well wel assured assured There Ther io a fl a great geat extent of virgin virn ground gound proven 1 to 10 be rich rich the supply of water Is plentiful plent ful tul lumber Is sawed at the nearby mill nl lof f the Lost Packer company and Te the season is from May lay 1 to Decem f ier 1 L The Te altitude of the creek Is little I j jer onore or than tha 50 feet feet although the tha Lost Packer acker mine is 2000 20 feet teet higher |