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Show i the owners squarely Into this and -i meant a fortune for them. This exemplifies exem-plifies the fact thnt the chances arc not nil with the Investor. For openings open-ings across forty 'feet of this vein Nolf obtuius general values exceeding 112 In gold.jier ton, while In the balance bal-ance of the property Borne eight cinlms may be crosscut from the Initial In-itial tunnel at a depth of from 250 to I 500 feet, crosscutting seven known I veins all panning , free gold. This Is the mot Important gold discovery I made in Iron county. RICH GOLD STRIKE ON RICE MOUNTAIN Modern Effort Where Others Failed in Early Times Brings Results. Mode n a, Utah, Julv 10. In the history his-tory of mining m,any vicissitudes are the rule. Possibly no case exciting more Interest nor exhibiting the Impotence Im-potence of the best Intentioned efforts of a locator and prospector whose In-"dustry In-"dustry is not sustained by the knowledge knowl-edge of olomentnl geology than is afforded af-forded by the disclosures made on Rice mountain, Utah, sixteen miles north of Modena. Ten years ago much was heard of the Statellne mining district. Tho discovery of the Johnny gold mine and the Ophir silver led to great experta-j experta-j tlons and the production for a time, j of some very sensational ore. As a i matter of truthful history, the Ophlr lapsed Into Idleness through a banker's bank-er's heavy defalcation in an eastern bank, who was the principal fitoek-bolder fitoek-bolder as far as known at the time? and the Johnny mine, which was once a producer of ore running as high as $2 per pound in gold, is supposed to ! have been drowned by an influx of water too great to handle. u is a matter ot ract that th. nrt discovery of gold was made on a hUh backbone, known as Rice mount i.n. to the north of the Stateline camp proper, as early as 1895. which ultimately ulti-mately led to subsequent discoveries and the founding of the adjacent cmp of Stateline. Rice mountain was abundant abun-dant in gold float down its rugged sides, all unsuspected for a tini.?, until somo cattlemen, known as th Rico brothers, tied their fagged steed-j to j a piece of float as large as a summer : kitchen, aud when untying (heir horses caught the glint of th precious yellow metal from this mountain fragment, frag-ment, ! Knowing nothing about mineralogy of geology, this piece of Una: exciteii them, and when the returns ehowod the substantial values it carrieii. I et tor than $300 per ton In ii-.e yellow metal, they were willing to h.mg ther lariats on a peg for a time aud a?!ve for the riches they felt certa n this mountain held. Untutored in the ways of nature's platings of hei' treasures, treas-ures, they started a tunnel frvm hc I spot, and after expending something i like $10,000, discovered everything I but the object of their search, j In the meanwhile Stateline boddfd, developed and blossomed as a camp ! based on substantial discoveries. And ! notwithstanding flattering offer for ! Rice mountain, the owners heid out . for impossible sums A palhctlc foa-j foa-j ture of the case is that as the cam;) I went down for the reasons stated In ! the opening paragraphs, the owners, while willing to reduce tho figure, still ' held out for exclusive figures, ovvln I no doubt to the. fact that a certain party, who gathered up a shipment of the rich float which lay up and down the mountain sides and obtained inor ' than 1200 per ton net Recentlv the Kejnote of Rice mountain moun-tain was discovered by B. L, Nolf of ' Modena, and a ledge In perfect place uncovered some forty feet in width, which promises to show up the greatest great-est gold discovery in southern Utah. According to Nolf, some 300 feet of work has been done on the mountain, all in drift or detritus, the owners being be-ing Impelled onward by encountering fragmentary quartz carrying splendid gold values, but nothing in place. As a matter of fact this big vein now appears ap-pears to have reared up with the country, coun-try, and an extension of only 423 feet will-give a depth of 250 feet wilh 1,900 feet of, drifting directly on this Immense Im-mense vein ahead. The pathetic feature is that a little knowledge of geology would have put |