(Arenti bill, continued)
to get the lineg east and west or
north and south.
2 Locations would have to be
recorded in the U- S. land office,
and there are only three in Alaska
—at Juneau, Fairbanks and Nome.
All notices south of the Alaska
i Range would have to be recorded
at Juneau. 'Shis includes the Cop
per River Valley, Susitna Valley,
Kenai peninsula and even the Al
askan peninsula. Ninety days are
allowed to get the notices to Jun
eau, T>ut the worst feature would l
be that the prospector would have!
to go to Juneau to see the records j
whenever he wanted to look up j
other location notices. A nd the
present cry of economy will for a
long time prevent the creation of
any new land offices. They are now
abolishing many in the States.
3. The location notices will all
have to be made upon blank forms
prescribed by the U. S. surveyor
general at Juneau. The prospector
must be sure to have those blanks
with him or at least he would have
to be careful to copy such forms
exactly.
4. The annual assessment work
will be at the rate of $5 an acre, j
but the prospector will be allowed j
to pay it in cash at the Juneau land!
office. He could not even pay it
to the district recorder for road
work, but the money would go in
to the U. S. treasury to be expen-;
ded under the direction of the sec-j
retary of the interior.
5. Applications for patent will!
have to be made so that final entry!
can be completed within seven
years from the date of location, |
This would mean that the claim i
owner would have to begin his!
application within four years,!
because it usually takes three!
I years from the time a survey
is begun. Of course, it might be
rushed through in less time, but
the claim owner would bo taking a
serious chance if he waited longer
than four years, and he must pre.
viously have improvements made
on the ground which the mineral
surveyor will certify to be worth
$500. The proposed law means
that a claim owner must have the
$500 improvements made within j
four years after his location, and
then have the money to employ a
mineral surveyor and to follow that
up with his application for patent.
I am a public land lawyer and shall
be glad to hurry up applications for
patents, but 1 know this law would
be bad for Alaska.
6. It will allow location without
: discovery, and the ground thus lo
cated may be held for five years
i without doing anything except the
j usual annual assessment work.
Then after the five years it may be
i held another five years by paying ■
; $50 an acre. This provision was1
; inserted at the request of the emi-1
n^nt mining engineers for large'
mining corporations who say it is
necessary for a company to tie up
the ground around its mine until1,
they have plenty of time to explore
it. They claim this is necessary if
extralateral rights are abolished,
and most all those mining engi- j
neers are opposed to extralateral
rights which this bill proposes to
abolish. Personally, I don’t care
much about this, but I object ser
iously to these objectionable fea
tures which the bureaucrats in
Washington have inserted in this
bill to spoil the only workable pub
lic land law we now have in Al
aska.
7. The trouble is this law was
written by the Bureau of Mines
under the influence of the great
mining engineers of the big compa*
nies who do not appreciate the dif
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