COMMUNICATION
Editor, the Empire: In regard to
the article in The Empire about the
proposed mining laws revealed in
the secret document of the Depart
ment of the Interior:
The proposed changes in the
United States mining laws that
would impose galling restrictions on
an already overburdened industry
and as sought in a confidential doc
ument of the Interior and disclosed
for the first time in the Los An
geles Times are as follow's:
1. On locations made subsequent
to the effective date of the proposed
act, the distinction between placer
and lode claims is abandoned. Bite
of a single claim is limited to 40
acres.
I wish to state here that I lost
two prospective buyers due to the
tax that the government imposed—
the lb percent tax, gross tonnage
tax before the buyer could have an
opportunity to get out of the red.
So this interested buyer quit me.
He told me that he would have to
place six or eight million dollars in
order to open up this property and
that if he had to pay this 15 percent
out before he got even and on every
dollar of ore that came to the
surface before he had his money
back so that he could at least see
his way out—that it wouldn’t be
worth the struggle and that he
might just as well go to Africa or
Peru and dine and he wouldn” be
taxed sc nigh.
I said, "Well, what do : j think
the government ought tc do about
it?”
And he said, "The government
ought at least stay put for 25 years
or so, until a company could get its
money back, anyway, and a fellow
had an opportunity to get even
first.”
That is why I hate to see the gov
ernment making any more changes
than it absolutely has to.
Another engineer told me nearly
the same thing. He told me, "I
wont'advise my company to pay the
money necessary to start mining
here.”
So, I watched to see where he
went. He went to South Africa and
paid $20,000,000 for a copper mine
development—and that was only for
a one-half interest. And I lost the
opportunity of having another
chance to sell.
That is why I hate so much to
see the size of claims cut down or
the law changed.
I have a copy of the United States
Mining Laws here and it says under
Title XXXII, Chapter 6, Revised
Statutes, that “From and after the
10th of May. 1872. any person who
is a citizen of the United States, or
who has declared his intention to
beepme a citizen, may locate, re
cord, and hold a mining claim of
fifteen hundred feet, but in no event
can a location of a vein or lode
after the 10th of May, 1872, exceed
fifteen hundred feet along the
course thereof, whatever may be the
number of persons composing the
association.”
With regard to the extent of sur
face ground adjoining a vein or
lode and claimed for the conveni
ence of working thereof, the Re
vised Statutes provide "that the
lateral extent of locations of veins
or lodes made after May 10th. 1872,
shall in no case exceed three hun
dred feet each side of the middle
of the vein at the surface, and that
no such surface rights shall be
limited by any mining regulations
to less than 25-feet on each side of
the middle of the vein at the sur
face, except where adverse rights
existing on the 10th of May, 1872,
may render such limitations neces
sary; the end lines of such claims
to be in all cases parallel to each
other; said lateral measurement
cannot extend beyond 300 feet on
either side of the middle of vein
at the surface, or as such distance
as is allowed local laws. For exam
ple: 400 feet cannot be taken on
one side and 200 feet on the other,
if, however, 300 feet on each side
are allowed, and by reason of prior
claims but 100 feet can be taken on
one side, the locator will not be
restricted to less than 300 feet on
he other side; and when the lo
cator does not determine by explo
ration where the middle of the vein
at the surface is, discovery shaft
must be assumed to mark such
point.”
I would recommend that the old
United States Mining Laws not be
changed at all at this time.
If you feel like putting your
shoulder to the wheel, it may be
appreciated by some of the boys that
have likely prospects, to ask them
if it would brighten things up some
if the United States government
would drill down a couple of holes
of say 200 feet. It might make
th’ngs look better.
The suggested $300 assessment is
unreasonable. $100 is enough.
I hope the Bureau of Mines
doesn’t think the hard rock boys
have got away with any big pay
checks.
There was only one Kennecott
mine and that was at the westward.
But around here you have to cut
some of them pretty deep before
they commence to get very good.
So, the way things are, it wont
help any to cut the claims down in
size. The way it looks to me now
is that the prospector has too hard
a time earning a living and no time
left to develop deep mines. That
takes a lot of capital.
I have prospected here part of
the time for 56 ye\rs and will say
there isn’t much m mey in mining j
unless you are luckier .nan I have
been.
iSigiied) A prospector.
SMND NAMED TO
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AT GOP MEETING
Margaret E. White, Republican
National Committeewoman lor Al
aska today stated she will give
her proxy to William Strand, of
Fairbanks, to represent her at the
meeting of the Republican National
Committee which is to meet in
Washington, D. C., January 26.
Mrs. White stated that Mr.
.Strand has done a great deal for
the Republican Party of Alaska
and knows the conditions and is
very able to present Alaska Repub
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