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Show I FIND IN FRISCO COUNTRY. Cheerful Condition at the Properties of the Golden Reef. Special to Tho Tribune. RICHFIELD. March 25. Very gratifying gratify-ing news came In from the Golden Reef property In the Frisco country last week to the directors of the company. This Information was that, after a long chaso , of over 3200 feet, there had been struck what was supposed to bo tho contact of tho bJg oro botlv, which surface Indications Indica-tions led to the belief existed In tho vicinity vi-cinity of where tho breast of the tunnel jiow Is. This strike consists principally of pyrites of Iron, but It lies In a very Floplng blnnkot vein. In a distanco of ten feet the vein has dipped but two. Previous Pre-vious to entering this vein matter tho , tunnel had gone through about soenty ' feet of a soft, decomposed llmcotone formation, after n 4CO-foot drive through rock that was very hard. In driving this tunnel a couple of good elns were encountered, and one of these was followed sufficiently to determine Its permanency From this values all the way from $2fl to ?30 were obtained. In another an-other vein some of tho oro went as high as JCO. But the company was anxious to find what there was beneath the Immonso Hurface cropplngs. nnd It kept right along for that point. Now tho signs are that ' tho tunnel Is near, If not already In touch with, an Important strike. The tunnel nt this point has a depth of EvK) feet, so that ljf something big Is found -there will bo a vast amount of It. L. II. Outzon and Max Krotkl have given an option on tho Bushy group of claims In Cottonwood canyon, just below 1 tho Franklin properties, to G. F. Dalton. Somo years ago this was ono of tho sen-11 sen-11 nations of the whole camp, but of late '( years nothing has been dono with It and it had almost become forgotten. At the f tlmo it was worked some of tho richest ' oro ever taken from the Mt. Baldy belt I . was extracted from this property, somo of J it golnjr as high as S3 per pound. But in 1 some manner the wonderful vein beenme 1 lost, and after a great deal of fruitless search in trying to recover it the prop-ortv prop-ortv was abandoned. Mr. Dalton believes i , ! that he can again pick up this oro streak. ! and It Is with this belief that he has taken f held of it. Tho option goes for one year. , 1 Since the relaxation of the cold weather 1 1 conditions havo become almost Ideal at . ! the Sevier Consolidated mine, and every j department of the mlno .and mill Is re- . 1 Bpondlng handsomely to tho touch of tho ; operators. Considerable annoynn'co was I experienced during the winter on account of the water freezing, but that Is a thing of tho' past now and everything is working work-ing most satisfactorily. It Is oxpo.cte-1 ' that Mr. Foster, tho superintendent, who hns been In a hospital In Salt Lake for I some time recovering from nn operation, 1 will be ablo to return to the mlno soon. |