Custer-Lemhi County ID Archives News.....IN FROM LOON CREEK May 31, 1870
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Idaho World Newspaper May 31, 1870
 Mr. Chas J. Tassell, of Shepard's Loon Creek Express, arrived from Oro Grande 
on last Thursday night, making the trip through in three days on horseback, 
and started back on Saturday. He met Kossuth's pack train within forty miles 
of Ore grande, loaded for Wolfson; and met Charlie Adams with Jacobs' train at 
the head of canyon. Both trains were getting along very well, but they 
intended to split cargoes and make two trips over the snow, which now extends 
over a tract of about twenty-four miles on the side of Shepard's trail, and is 
from three to five- feet in depth. At Cape Horn the pack train's will have to 
unpack, carry the loads over on the foot bridge and swim the animals; that is 
the only place where they still have to swim, the balance of the crossings 
being all bridged. A great many parties had started out from Loon Creek on 
prospecting tours. Several persons are engaged in serching for the body of 
Smith who was lost with Wentworth, but have as yet been unable to find it. Mr. 
Tassell and Judge Sheperd are the first parties who crossed the trail on 
horseback this season, and having taken out horses and stocked the road, they 
intend making quicker time with the Expres than ever before made.

Additional Comments:
Names mentioned-Chase Tassell, Kossuth, Charlie Adams, Jacobs, Smith, and 
Judge Shepherd.

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