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Show TRAILS WERE BURIED President Unable to Reach the Log Cabin. SENT FOR SUPERINTENDENT Lattar Verifias Racont Strike in Turin s I. Latest News From Sensational Disclosures Dis-closures in Gold Development Company's Domain. Unable to plough his may through drifts of enow in which the trails leading lead-ing from Marysvale and Richfield to the properties of the Gold Development Mining company, south of Gold Mountain, Moun-tain, its stalwart president, Dr. P. A. H. Franklin, retraced his Journey yesterday, yes-terday, and disposing of a pile of correspondence cor-respondence that appealed to him, will repeat his attempt to get to camp again this morning. At Richfield, to which Ole Larsen, the company's superintendent, superintend-ent, had made his way over the snows, President Franklin found not a little excitement over the disclosures in the Log Cabin tunnel. He was assured In the interview with Superintendent Larsen Lar-sen that In reporting upon them there had been no exaggeration whatever, and that the values In the south fissure, fis-sure, which had come into that on which the tunnel Is advancing, showed from $24 to ?70 face samples picked samples reaching sensational heights. The entire muss of ore now exposed affords af-fords a milling proposition, said President Presi-dent Franklin, and to prove It up at depth the driving of the new tunnel from a portal 300 feet vertically below No. 1 will begin without delay. Superintendent Super-intendent Larsen reports the other tunnels tun-nels with which the gold-bearing zone Is being opened up advancing rapidly into it, with not a little to foretell an early change in tho Franklin, and conditions con-ditions throughout as expected at this period of development. Marysvale and Richfield are each relying re-lying on greatly Increased activity the present year, said Dr. Franklin, and each presents a most animated appearance appear-ance at this time, although the rush will not begin until the trails are reopened. re-opened. A special from The Tribune's corre-snondent corre-snondent at Richfield last night says: "There is enough dirt in sight," said Superintendent Larsen, "to keep our great-grandchildren profitably digging till they're a hundred years old. In Log Cabin tunnel we arc drh'lng ahead as fast as muscle, steel and powder will allow, and with every shot appearances are betted. Jerry Mahoney said that if that great body of ore should average only 53 it would blossom Into the biggest big-gest mine of his knowledge, but up to date we are going him several dollars better. By sampling the entire face walls, roof and floor of our tunnel at any point within the last thirty feet you will get an average assay equal to the most exorbitant demands. From the fact that we are gaining vertical depth now at about the same rate at which we add length to the tunnel I take the steady increase of values and the moro compact character of the quartz to be a certain indication that the big fissure, broken and leached on top, carries the pay with it ao far down as we will ever live to see it exposed. The very nature of the ore. sulphide of iron, is a rebuke to the calamity howler who is forever predicting a pinch." |