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Show (II.UCED MCE TIIM SIXTIES. ITIusMm. I'ackor Lulttly Visit II lc llolo In itl ontnnii. Monday, Joseph Packer returned return-ed from his four weeks' prospecting trip through Idaho and Montana, lie was accompanied by Allen Packer, a distant relative. During the month they traveled 700 miles, all the distance by team. They found the rivers and streams swollen swol-len and turbulent. They had several narrow escapes in fording streams. At one place they attempted at-tempted to drive across, when the swift current carried their outfit half a mile down tho river, where they fortunately landed in safety. Their objective point was a gulch in northern Montana near the Canadian line. hi !Sti2 Allen Packer was lighting Indians up there in a place culled llig Hole. He accidentally found several rich ! nutiuets of gold. Ihe dangers oi ' border life in that day prevented I his locating the place, so thirty ! two years later, he was young then, now he is an old man, he helped lit up an nut (U to h,cate the old find. He found the whilom wilderness vastly changed. A mill for reducing ores had been rear e d o n the place, had worn out its usefulness! and fallen into decay. Settle- incuts had arisen around about the j once wild rendezvous of tho crafty ! red man of the foro.-t. When Messrs. Packer found the place had been located ahead of them they turned face about and began their j long trip homeward. They tound j 'Snake River a rolling torrent of i angry water.-. Its banks were alive j with eager prospectors aud anxious I miners. But they made several I good locations and returned home. |