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Show :B0NEVIUE TUNNEL IS BEING PROSPECTED WITH OIA-K0NDJR1LL OIA-K0NDJR1LL Jesse Knight has installed a diamond dia-mond drill in the Bonneville tunnel, about half way between Provo and Springville, for further exploration of the property. The tunnel is now In 6,100 feet, with a depth of about 2500 fee, and the drill will be run horizontally horizont-ally from the breast of the tunel about 1,500 feet An objective point la a lime stone ledge which carrlea silver on the surfact and which will be peirc-ed peirc-ed by the drill. 'Mr. Knight has driven the tunnel at an expense of about $100,000 for the purpose of testing the territory for minerals, of which there are good surface sur-face indications, and rich float has been found on the mountains and in the canyons to the west from the earliest days of the settlement of the valley, but no ore in workablo quantity quan-tity has been developed in the work done so far. In the progress of the tunnel some small bunches of ore have been found, and some copper-stained rock. The tunnel was started several years ago, but for a time, till recently, the work was suspended. A tunnel was driven about a thousand feet this winter, below be-low the long tunnel, with two objects in view to develop water and to cut a small fissure from the big tunnel, which carried ore. There was, however, how-ever, no indication of ore in the lower tunnel. Some water was obtained. The (Bonneville Company was formed form-ed by iMr. Knight, who purchased, for part cash and part stock in the company, com-pany, a large anumber of claims in the canyons and on the mountains east of Provo from the original locators and other owners. Mr. Knight, however, has borne the expense of driving thft tunnel, because if assessments had been levied for this purpose the stock I holders whose claims were taken ovei would have been frozen out long ago t ' 1 ' ,r |