Show LOST PACKER Will CUT LOOSE Smelter to Start in a Few Days Rich Ore Developed in No 4 Tunnel MAMMOTH SHIPS RICH ORE TONS OF ORE SELLS FOR Without waiting to learn what the outcome of the option on the Lost Packers control will be the manage management management management ment has ha decided to place the smelter at Lt the property In commission and dur during iris ing the next few days the fires will be beUt lit Ut and th the making of gold copper matte will begin This Is the news brought down from Custer Ida by Ravenal McBeth the well known mining operator of that place who Is In the th city for a Co day or 01 two More or less news of a boom char character character acter has ha been printed about the Lost Packer property said Mr McBeth during the tha afternoon and though lit little little littie tle tie of It has emanated from official sources the impression has gained some 8 me currency that the mine Is not all aU that it has been pictured It is true nevertheless that the Lost Packer is really r a 9 big mine a mine that has more ore are in sight by long odds than the option price of ot 6 a n share amounts to and it is i opening up bigger every everyday everyday everyday day During the past few weeks there have been important disclosures made in the fourth tunnel workings of the th mine Here they are now driving through a shoot of ore are two feet teet of which will average in addition to its fine copper capper contents better than four ounces gold old per ton All through the mine conditions are such that It Is Impossible im impossible Impossible possible to class the proposition as any anything anything anything thing but a bonanza of the first mag magnitude magnitude magnitude The management has now de tided to begin smelting Its ores and the product of this plant will wUl tell the tale of what hat the Lost Packer amounts to Mr McBeth states that there is the greatest kind of activity all through the country from Mackay to Custer and Loon creek at the present time Is some particular rustling for lend lead properties and as the metal abounds in several of the districts he looks for foi the making of some fine mines In the not distant future At Mackay operations are steadily progressing on the White Knob and Mr McBeth was well w ll pleased with the condition of things as he found them themon on his way here He will return home In a day or two |