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Show THE BIG STRIKE IN LOST'PACKER A letter from Custer, Ida., to Hon. Ravenel Macbeth, now in Zion, advises him that the new ore body in the Lost Packer mine at Loon creek has widened out to over ten feet and that It presents all the characteristics of that which was marketed at tho local smelters last season on controls showing as much as $215 gold, with handsome percentages in copper. The new disclosure Is In the lower tunnel, with 200 feet of stop-ing stop-ing ground above it, while on the strike It has been opened up for twenty feet or more. At the Lucky Boy, of whose mines and mills he is the general superintendent. superintend-ent. Mr. Macbeth says the new strike ln the winze below the 900-fpot level revealed re-vealed nine feet of ore, with but one wall when the men were driven out by water. Accompanied by Mrs. Macbeth, he will leave for the East the present week, to remain two months or more. tons, has been sold by furnacemcn ln eastern Pennsylvania to casting plants, for delivery ln one caso as far as Ohio, and In another case as far as the Boston district. The sales have been at prices to the equivalent . of $18.50 and $18.75 at Philadelphia. The car and locomotive builders arc getting occasional consignments. |