OCR Text |
Show LOST PACKER BIG MINE. Idaho Visitor Discusses It A Silver-Lead Silver-Lead Discovery. Judgo "William A. Crawford of Riverside, River-side, Ida., was among tho day's visitors from tho north, this tho first tlmo ho has looked In upon 55Ion sinco ho was attached at-tached to tho Wasatch group at Park City. Judgo Crawford Is now Interested In properties about a mllo and a half distant dis-tant from Loon Creek, home of tho Lost Packer mines, nnd from his locations brought samples of ore identical with that occurring In tho Packer. In the samo locality Is tho Metcalf group of mines, of which Senator Ravenel Macbeth is ono of tho owners, tho ores of which ton feet hns been exposed, showing from 30 to -10 per cent lead with an avcrago of 00 ounces silver, from 5 to 10 per cent copper cop-per and $5 to ?10 gold per ton. That tho marketing of ores from this sourco has not begun Is that a long haul contravenes. contra-venes. Judgo Crawford says of the Lost Packer that it Is undoubtedly ono of tho big discoveries dis-coveries of recent years in Idaho and that Its equipment with a furnace for tho reduction of its ores an tho ground the present season will domonstrato it. |