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Show Uncle Jesse Knight WlllJJhange Methods Hum Abandoned the Diamond Drill iiihI Will Itun a Tunnel. Gcorgo A. Storrs, who haa been up-crlntcndlng up-crlntcndlng the diamond drill jiros-peeling jiros-peeling for Undo .Tense Knight near .Alpine, haa abandoned this method or prospecting and will run a tunnel Into In-to the hill. Ho was up to the property proper-ty Inst weuk looking out a tunnel silo nnd told aoinc of tho Alpine, people that work on the tunnel would commence, com-mence, tit mi enrly date. Tho reason for abandoning the diamond dia-mond drill, Is that thu formation Ik not ravorable to this kind of pios-peeling. pios-peeling. Thu drill becomes wedged with tho running ground, making it Impossible to mako progress. The owner of tlio drill says that there nro $9,000 In diamonds on the ud of hit. nuger, which ho does not care to take thu chance, of losing by having It wedged lti the earth at a depth of several sev-eral hundred frt. Tho men were unable to get more than fifty foot deep In threo weeks' drilling, while under normal conditions condi-tions they should have gone 300 feet. Mr. Storrs nnd Mr. Knight have neither lost faith In tho district, but are rather rath-er more encouraged than over because of the. values that were found. Ai one who knows whnt It means when Undo Jesso nays that be has faith In n district, "knows that It means that that district will be thoroughly prospected, pros-pected, o |