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Lost Packer sparks Loon creek mining boom headline
Loon creek country gains fame after Eddy strikes a promising vein at the Lost Packer mine. Salt Lake investors, Chicago and Montana firms, and local authorities organize, file claims, and plan mills and a wagon road as mineral field expands from Custer County toward Salmon river and Boise Basin.
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Cal Clawson
Maho
Loon Creek Country
Idaho City
Loon Creek
Orogrande
Jo Boggs
Canyon Creek
Eddy
Guster and Salt Lake Company
Packer
Loon
Great Midway Plaisance
Ravenel Macbeth
Lucky Boy Mining Co
George Coryell
L. B. Co
Wm. T. Oster
J.A. Ozizekk
Jonah
Utah
Montana
California
Siberia
Patagonia
Salt Lake
Chicago
Custer County
New Loon Creek
Yankee Fork
Stanley
P. O
Czizek
Lucky Boy Co
E. H. Lang
Jas. H. Tappan
Empire Group
D. B. Varney
R. N. Hunter
Bell
O. A. Tibbetts
Phillipsburg
C. P. Chrisholm
Chisholm
Custer
Jordan Creek
Jordan Divide
Jack
Blackfoot
Salmon River
Boise Basin
Middle Salmon
Thunder Region
Bear Valley
Deadwood
Greyhound
Seafoam
Sheep Mountain
Rapid River
Valley Creek
McConnell
Greyhound Mining Co
True Fissure Mining Co