Show KNIGHTS TAP LEAD VEIN AT DUCK CREEK While little noise Is hoin made mado by bythe bythe the owners or of head claims In McGill and while whIlo no apparent Is b being iri made to attract atton atlon Ills time LIme to the big blE lead head pro pacts In Ia that district work is Ie going oID ahead steadily on n a number of prop properties properties and the showings that are aro boo be belag lag inS uncovered and are qui quito to satisfactory says the El EI Expositor The rho Frederick tunnel owned b by 1 F Brim and Uncle Jcsse Knight Is isnow no now In foot and It is 18 believed to toba tobe be ba nearing ore oro bodies This tunnel was wag driven 1 b the Steptoe Valley Smelting and Mining company compan and was destined to pierce the high line cliffs cliff back of the tho smelter plant to nr ar arford I Iford ford a channel for the waters of oC Duck I creek and deliver thorn them to the smelter smeller plant It wag as originally planned to the tunnel entirely entire through the moun mountain tain tam work being carried on from each side The tunnel was driven tOO feet and wag then abandoned by the smelter sine ter management who turned It over oer overto to the owners of the mining through which it Il was being driven at atno atno no cost to lo them The only tion made It Is was 0 that the tunnel should ho continued In n a straight line and that thal the thc proportions he be maIntained throughout Its entire length long lb Sin Since e taking the tunnel from rom the tho smelter people the owners of oC the property have hae driven it Il feet mak makInE making ing InE It feet Ceet In length The tun tunnel aol nel gains ono ono foot oat of depth with foot of length It Is equipped with a track and car and with an automatic j ventilator The ground until this time has hils been exceedingly to work and the tho miners have been unable to gain more malo than ono one toot Coot or each shift It is now assuming a ere t character tho ho lime breaking In larger blocks and more deeplY with each round until botter bolter time Is i being made The development of n a bl big lend mine mineso so close to the Steptoe valley valle smell macIt in lag plant and so near the tho railroad wit with h splendid for transportation tation to the tho railroad will cause causo a boom in the lead leall Industry In the coun count county t ty and will assure a great output of lie ores to the smelters at Salt Lake alley The further development of the distrIct wIll It L Is believed result eventually In the establishment or of a alend alend lend stack slack either II by the Val lc Icy plant orb or b un an independent group of |