Custer-Lemhi County ID Archives News.....Loon Creek May 26, 1870
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Idaho World May 26, 1870
Loon Creek Items- From Mr. J.H.Hunter, of the Miners Loon Creek Express, who 
arrived on last Monday night from Ore Grande, we learned that about ten days 
ago the body of M.A. Wentworth, the Expressman who was lost in the snow slide 
while enroute for Loon Creek during the winter was found by his partner, Mr. 
Adams, and another man named Holmes. The snow was still about four feet deep 
over the remains, which was discovered by reason of a hole having been dug 
down to the body by a couger or panther which had eaten the flesh off the neck 
and breast; otherwise, the body was in a good state of preservation. Wentworth 
was lying on his back with his express pack under him. The body was buried on 
the side of the hill near where it was found, and the parties were engaged in 
looking for the body of Smith who perished at the same time.
 Mr. Hunter informs us that high water interferes very much with mining 
operations at loon Creek, and from the same cause the trail to Leesburg is 
almost impassible for pack trains.
 Beef cattle had arrived at Ore Grande from the Lemhi country and the miners 
at Loon Creek were well supplied with mutton and beef, at prices ranging from 
25 to 30 cents.
 No trains can get through from Idaho for two or three weeks yet, unless they 
travel at night over the snow and pack their feed.  There is at least fifty 
miles of snow between Payette and Ore Grande, but none in Deadwood Valley.

Additional Comments:
Names mentioned- M.A.Wentworth, Smith.

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