The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1865-10-14
The Quartz Law--Amendment Proposed.
PINE GRovE, Oct. 10, 1865.

The Quartz Law--Amendment Proposed
PINE Grove, Oct. 10, 1865.
EDITOR WORLD ;-Allow me through you
paper TO suggest a few ideas in reference t,
the necessity of a NEW and DIFFERENT law TO
the government of quartz locations in thi
Territory.
The law as it now stands entities the claim
ant to two hundred feet on any lead or ledge
that he may locate-provided he will file in
the Recorders Office copy of the notice-tc
cause said copy to be recorded, which in
Alturas county costs the locator $3.50. Again
he is required to do, or cause to be done,
one hundred dollars worth of work within
six months, and fifty dollars worth of work
every year thereafter, or his right is forfeited
and in order to make all these transactions
legal, he is required to prove by two persons
that the law has been complied with in every
particular instance.
I Now. in the first place, it frequently hap
pens that there is no acting Justice of the
Peace in the district where the quartz is Local
ted hence the locator is compelled to a large
expense to procure the necessary evidence of
his representation-as your correspondent
knows to be the case in great many instan-
ces in this and Alturas counties. So by the
time man has complied with the present
law, for the first six months, he has expended
at least one hundred and Fifty dollars. Who
is benefited by all this expenditure of time
and money No one, sir but the Recorder.
For in nine cases out of ten the labor per-
formed TO represent is of no value what
ever to the ledge or its owner, except to pre-
vent litigation and it is not always Il bar to
that, las certain covetous persons have dem
onstrated in the case of the AAtlanta" at
"Yuba.'1
Now, Mr.. Editor, would it not be far better
for everybody concerned, for the locator to
pay into the County Treasury a certain sum
LOT money,-say ten dollars-one half for the
use of the Territory and the other for the
use of the County instead of doing a hun
dred dollars worth of SCRATCHING on the sur
face of the ledge, which does. not assist in
the sale of it, nor is of any benefit to it's
future development.
1t seems to me that it would be much easier
for the prospector, or locator, to raise ten dol
lars and pay it into the Treasury, than to be
compelled, Gas many persons have been in the
Yuba dstrict) to arise, take up their beds |
and grub and walk over lofty mountains on
snow shoes, in the dead of winter to repre-
sent their claims before the time expires, as
they are required to do under the present law
No one can doubt, that the Territory and
counties would receive an enormous revenue
therefrom. Instead of doing fifty dollars
worth of work every year after the first six
months, say pay into the Treasury FIVE dol
lars, to be divided as above between the Coun-
ty and the Territory and the claimant to re-
ceiVe from the Treasurer d certificate and
duplicate of certifeate,-the certificate to be
deposited with the Recorder, and the dupli-
cate to be retained by the claimant; so if :
either should be lost the other would be evil r
1ence Of representation.
1t would prevent great deal obligation, ifl
he Recorder were prohibited from recording
more than one notice of location on any claim,
where all requirements of the law have been
complied with, and be (the Recorder has
of the facts.
I make these suggestions for public con- !
liberation. Yours &c.
PINE GROVE.