The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-11-18

Higgins, Hearst, and Delamar, are
to be added to. Ownership has just
passed to important Eastern inter-
ests. Over the divide from Custer
City, the Loon Creek district, where
early day placer miners washed gold
nuggets fom the gravel, the famous
Lost Packer gold mine will resume
operations on heavy scale.
This property has been taken
over by the Bingham Galena Mining
Company of Utah. Closed at the
height of activity by the troublous
war times after courageous mine
operators had developed it to ac-
tive production, it now is to start
again.
James Ivers. Jr., director of the
far-famed Silver King Coalition
mine of Park City, son of the old
Park City miner who had the cour-
age to make a big mine from good
surface prospect holes, and Eugene
Grutt, mine manager for Bingham
Galena will direct operations. There
is 100-ton smelter and flotation
mill for concentration of ores, that
makes the run-of-mine ore high
grade smelter product, all ready to
start work. Ore bins and ore stock
piles at the mine are loaded to ca
pacity and the underground work.
ings are opened and in shape for the
miners to start production.
Already the mine has produc-
ton record of $750,OO0 and Mr.. "
ers says there is easily 100000
worth of ore in sight in the mine to
start production from. The ore al
ready mined and treated in the
smelter at the mine averaged ~
ounces gold, 16 ounces silver and
ing to official records. The vein
has been opened by series OF tun-
nels from 500, to $500 feet long
and three ore shoots found that are
remarkable. The north shoot is
400 feet long, according to official
report, and has in it $4,000 tons of
ore not yet mined and an additional
5000 tons that were mined and left
in the workings as fills, all of the
ore worth S35. ton. This ore
shoot averages five feet in width
Mr.. Ivers says. 1t is the mines Glow
grade" At the time operations were
stopped lower Levels were being driv-
en- to open this vein at depth.
These levels will be extended at
once
More important is the work which
will commence Of sinking Wine
from the lowest tunnel level on
high grade ore body that has pro-
duced much rich ore that averaged
three to four ounces gold, IS ounces
silver and 35 per cent copper a tou.
This winze is reported to show
three-foot vein of ore worth from
$120 to $125 a ton, chiefly in gold
The color and romance CT the
early days will he missing in the
old camps that are reviving. The
hell-roarers are of day that is
passed, the fortune hunter, too, is
of different stripe. 1t will not be
the lone hand with a small stake
going into the wilderness in hope of
quick fortune Today it is the
'iaiHou eH6ineer With DdcktnS OIL
adequate financial strength who
will be the leading figure in the
old camps, and he will use the ST.
lence developed during the decades
that have passed since the old camps
were in their glory, to win the gol-
den wealth from the ground. AL
though the old kind of romance and
color will be missing from the
camps that are being revived there
is wonderful story that will be
lived the story of achievement that
creates stupenduous volume of
new wealth that is taken from
Mother Earth.
LUNCHEON AND CARD PARTY