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('()RD( >VA. ALASKA. MONDAY, (K’TnUKR 11.
UNCERTAIN MINING LAW.
Changes in the Alaska mining laws have been so rapid and
varied that it would almost make one dizzy to try to keep track
of them. < Vrtainly the average miner can hardly know what is
required ot him when he wants to take up a claim, but the law
yers should find in this legal mixup a harvest of litigation.
Undoubtedly, congress will soon awaken to the realization
that the Alaska legislators, of the kind that we have had in the
past, are not competent to make mining laws, and that it will be
best to take the matter out of their hands and put the whole
thing under the direction of the United States government.
There will be many oppose this plan, on the general ground
that the people of Alaska should be given the right as far as
possible to make their own laws, which would be true if the
population here was extensive enough to provide experienced
lawmakers. But the fault seems to lie in the fact that the
Alaskans who are competent to serve as lawmakers do not want
the job, as a rule, and thus men of no experience, or sometimes
of no ability in that line, are selected for that important trust.
This will be changed as the country settles up and the people
take more interest in local legislation.
()f course, The Citizen does not mean to infer that all of the
menmbers of the Alaska legislaure are incompetent or inex
perienced men, but it does say that there have been enough
incompetent men in the two sessions that have been hold to pre
vent the constructive legislation that the Territory so much
needs.
But getting back to tin* mining law, it is clear to anyone
that has paid any attention to the matter that the mining laws
of Alaska are tending to do the Territory more harm than any
other class of legislation that has been enacted for the people
here. Tn the face of this fact, it seems that everyone should
agree that a stop should be put to this constant changing of
this class of laws. This can only be done by having the gov
ernment take the matter intoVs own hands and put a stop to
any further repair work.
What the government will probaly do in the end will be to
revoke all the mining laws passed by the Alaska legislature and
to place all mineral lands in the Territory under the control of
tin' department of the interior, with the idea that the miners
in various districts may have the right to make such local regu
lations as they may need.
It would be interesting to know how many men in the Fair
banks district think they know by what process a mining,
claim is acquired under the present law. They ma\
understand some of the main features of the law recently
passed bv the legislature, and they may have a general
idea of tiie former law passed' by the first legislature, but there
must always be an uncertainty in their minds in regard to what
ways the local law may conflict with federal laws. They will
probably not know whether they are* really complying with
legal requirements or if they are simply laying the basis for fu
ture litigation when they take up a mining claim.
It is quite proper that local government should be en
couraged and broadened, but this is not half as important as the
necessity of protecting the miners from the mischief being
done by a few men sent to Juneau every two years to spend two
months in working at something of which they have little
knowledge.—Fairbanks Citizen.
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Those who have been violating the law at Anchorage by
boot-legging and conducting “blind pigs” have finally run up
against a snag, and will have an opportunity of being heard at
the next term of the district court, which will be held at Sew
ard in November.
No sooner does the cry go up that there is a scarcity of
antimony than Alaska steps to the front and announces the
discovery of large ledges of that mineral. In fact if there is
anything needed in our line on the great outside we will very
gladly furnish the same, providing of course Uncle Sam is
willing to allow our resources to be developed.
The past week has been a disasterous one for the shipping
interests, as well as corporations and individuals doing busi
ness in this nerthland. In the wreck of the steamer Mariposa
large shipments of merchandise and machinery will be de
layed in reaching the consignees and the loss of the barge
Washington, with $125,000 worth of lumber aboard for the
Copper River & Northwestern railway, will gretly interfere
with the plans of the latter company in the construction of
bridges and snow-sheds.
If the cableship Burnside has not turned back from its
northern course, in order to allow the officers an opportunity
cf fulfilling some social engagements at Seattle, that vessel
should he nearing Sitka, where the break ocurred in the cable.
In the meantime the public and' press are not receiving the
usual service by wireless, and this accounts for the faqt that The
Pailv Times is without much of a press service today. The
war news and result of today’s big ball game have not as yet
arrived but may reach us in time for tomorrow’s paper.
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