Bonanza Placers, Inc.

ID: 2024 | This file appears in: Leesburg and Grantsville, Idaho
In 1926, Bonanza Placers, Inc. brought hydraulic mining to Leesburg. The word “placers” in the name likely referred to prospectors who panned for gold in Leesburg a generation earlier, as gold panning was also called “placer mining.” | Source:

“Mines - Leesburg ‘Bonanza Placers, Inc. - Pictures taken at property, Left by Col. Hodson’ 1.” Courtesy of the Idaho State Historical Society. https://idahohistory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p265501coll1/id/22.

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“Mines - Leesburg ‘Bonanza Placers, Inc. - Pictures taken at property, Left by Col. Hodson’ 1.” Courtesy of the Idaho State Historical Society. https://idahohistory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p265501coll1/id/22.

"Bonanza Placers, Inc." appears in: Leesburg and Grantsville, Idaho