THE WEDGE STRIKE Sensation of a Season and What It Means for Neighbors TRIBUNE SPECIAL PJchfield Aug 1The most sensational sensa-tional gold strike of many years In Utah one that Is most comprehensive In Its Importance to the whole surround ing region significant In Its relations to properties on the same mineral belt and fraught with good checI to all mining men of the Baldy domain was recently made near Marysvale There is no reason rea-son to apprehend a hUch or a fault and unless jome such unforeseen calamity should occur this discovery will prove the dynamic force to advance the Pl ute camp a decade OB In a day Rumors have boon rampant for some das but The Tribune has reserved Its report until It could be verified fully by Lars H Outzen and Max Krotkl mining I men of tills city who have Just re turned from the diggings and Miles Durkee and Ben Reynolds Marysvale operators who have come from the scene The find was made on the famous fa-mous old Wedge by 1 F Dalton discoverer dis-coverer of the Dalton mine and long Identified wIth the ups and downs of Marysvale Briefly described It Is thirty Inches of quartz yellow with free gold all averaging up to a fabulous fabu-lous figure an l some specimens being nearly pure gold Mr Krotki saw chunks the size of walnuts whose auriferous au-riferous percentage was so high that yellow was their prevailing color and Mr Durkee j was shown boulders the size of footballs fairly matted with the precious metal These are not the exaggerations ex-aggerations of flighty minds but the cool observations of conservative and disinterested moq who hoSe made mining min-ing a lifetime study The Wedge Is held under bond by the Gpld Vein Mining company of which George Romncy Is manager G F Dalton Dal-ton superintendent and L U Colbath assayer The area embraced by the two Wedge fractions Is practically that of one Ilalm About three years ago this same rich lead was uncovered pinched down to four Inches and was then lost apparently Irrevocably Dr P A H Franklin took a bond on the property spurred to this action by tales of this fabulously rich rock After a diligent search prying about In nil directions di-rections save the right one Dr Franklin Frank-lin acknowledged his failure to recover the great lead and threw up his option which vas promptly snapped up by the Gold Vein company Representing that corporation Superintendent Dalton was given free rein to follow his own system sys-tem of search and In about two months has exhumed the burled treasure At first he found but four Inches of the fumed dirt the same size as when it was lost but now It has spread to thirty Inches forty feet under cover and bears every evidence of going down indefinitely Indefi-nitely The main body of the ore is I I a light g brownsugar quartz blotched with Iron pyrites and all stained with iron but the heaviest values lie In the ore where the iron stain Is most pronounced Twelve men are industriously following up the rich clue and as Mr Outzen suggests before the option payments become due many times their amount will have been realized from shipments of picked ore which will begin at once Aside from the fortune this disclosure has revealed to those controlling the Wedges destinies Is the assurance of riches it brings to the owners of claims on the strike of the same vein The PerjueSurprise Is first In line and the extensive domain of the Bradburu company com-pany of Plttsburg Pa cannot well escape es-cape this stroke of fortune Those properties prop-erties are vigorously driving long tunnels tun-nels that must eventually tap the rich zone and with the busy doings at the L N Log Cabin Snow Bird Deer Trail nnd other diggings In that region there Is vastly more acth Ity and hope In the Marysvale section than were ever before displayed In the checkered career of the camp I