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HYDER, ALASKA, Oct. 35. 1922.
1
INIQUITIES UF
ARENTZ BILL
ABE EXPOSED
We ape glad to devote a consid
erable amount of space this week
to the publication of Maurice D.
Leehey’s objections to the so-called
Arentz bill, now before Congress,
which is being strenuously opposed
by all who have the mining indus
try of the west at heart, As Mr.
L,eehey makes clear, the bill was
prepared by the ‘‘big interests" in
conjunction with the Bureau of
Mines. The members of the latter,
strange to say, show a total lack of
knowledge concerning the pioneer- .
ing part of the mining industry, a
I part that is performed by the pros
pector, the promoter and the small
operator. The bill loses sight of
the fact that the prospector is never
a capitalist—that he cannot devel
op his finds to the point necessary to
induce capital to take hold, that
he is not in touch with capital and
has no means of getting in touch,
that if ever his discoveries are
brought to notice it must be through
the agency of some sort of a "mid
dle man.”
Every recent mining convention
in the west has condemned this
bill, and even the American Mining
Congress, which is now dominated
largely by corporate interests, has
marked the measure with its stamp
of disapproval. Every mining man,
every man whose livlihood depends
upon the mining industry—which
means every man in this section—
has his welfare endangered by this
bill. In self defence all our citizens
should use every influence they
may possess in bringing about the
defeat of this iniquitous measure.
Mr. Leehey, who has for years
been so closely connected with Al
askan affairs,—and especially in
i mining,—as to need no introduc
| tion to readers of the Miner, voices
j his objections to the Arentz bill as
' follows:
The revision of the mining laws
proposed by the Arentz Bill, (H.Ji.
7736 now before Congress,) would
be very bad for Alaska, especially
for the following reasons:
1. It requires ail mining claims,
' both lode and placer, to be in either
40-acre or 10-acre tracts, with car-!
dinal lines, true north and south
1 and east and west. The prospec
tor would have to find the true di
rection and this would often be
impossible without a surveyor and
great expense. He could not locate
creek placers in the direction of he
creek, but would have to locate 40
acre or 10-acre squares and that
would usually mean to take in a
lot of ground of no value. Neither
could he locate directly along the
vein, but would have to take 10
acre or 40-acre squares and be sure
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