The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-06-08

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ersss. WhiIs sumo q = leatarse aes veQ god, IN
%aa scans: Il , q those
who msy bpsesttsr deoove lodges Lsddss hereafter
siseoysis1 iea1rs bas ?ico worth e vosk e e done
while those who were unfortunate - 70 have 10.
Gated ledge before the passage Of the at are required
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IN :et.
4 Again. II disztminatc. ia favor Of those who
may heTs:fter leeate quartz sdees n.smuch z, each
whereas under the Territorial law person hut the
dac0vefcr could locate more than 80 teet md the
d'''0vef' no more than - feet along 9 'sdgs.
3. We always haye favored the p,An u compelling
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I. Such class legislation has ever chataetsrissd
to power, the people in the mines made laws to suit
each locality hut tho Radical party has taken this
right from them, and made general law: thst arc cp
fsv. The programme. Of the Republican party ha:
been to create monopolies. and ths bin 10 IN aecord
with this prosrsnme.-ladepeSdeat Jsas lsk
a. The new. quartz mining law il. and
10 entitled, "an Act to Promote Ms Deeei1p-
nsent of the Mining Resources Of the Uni>
ted States" Such being the case, stimu-
liant is offered to prospectors in requiring
the minimum of work on lodges discovered
after ito passage. Reverse the require
ments and the Iadepssdsat would howl
"iniquitous" because an oppression" Of
o per 100 feet each year would stop future
search for mines, and It would be an Act to
debar prospecting. .,...z ...:.......,
a. In other words It does not offer the
same reward to swindling and fraudulent
transfers. We al know the process of
claiming, deciding back, ETC., and the eva
sion practiced, and that many hundreds of
leads are now held each by one man with
out paying dollar for them. 1t simply
" discriminate" against humbuggery. a&
C8.) "Oppression r. In whstl Ten dol
lars Of work esch year on each one hum
dred lineal feet Of leadi II the lndepsnd-
ent, - 1t asserts. favored compulsory work.
how much does it think would not be op.
pressive! What 10 its object in " compel-
ling" work. If it Is to encourage devel-
opment, less than two days in each year
would not encourage It much. We would
be pleased to have the lsdepsndsnt define
that remarkable line of demarkation be.
tween no work and go of work, where its
fine discrimination secs the end Of Justice"
aud the beginning of oppression"
a. Speaking of monopolies'' reminds
u that the Democratic Legislature Of Mon.
tana, of which the lsdepsndens Editor was
once member, by deliberate Acts, session
after session, gran ted scores Of most outrs
geous monopolies. in the shape of charter
ed toll.roads, bridges, and ferries, with
miles Of monopoly ON either side, until the
Congress Of the United States peremptorily
such Legislation by prohibiting it.
The Congress of the United States 10 the
only authority in the land that has any
power or right to make supreme laws regu-
lsting the mineral lands. The minerals be-
long to the people Of the United States, and
Congress 10 their universal Legislature.
So far from encouraging monopolies the
bill prevents it,, We have heard It boosted
BY On individual in Montana who probably
never did good days work in his life, that
under the Montana laws he held perfect
title to a, 900 feet of quartz which he never
had worked and never would, and we doubt
not there are many such instances. No
works done; they did not even discover
them probably, but some poor prospector
going out Of the country because the mines
are undeyeloped and possess no known
value, deeds them away to y m0nOpoli.
Ter" for triae. who would hold them to
Nj eternity il possible and prevent any one
else from developing them except by bleed
ing abuudantly to him. I i.al b. fedl ssd5oi
7-Some such law h absolutely necessary.
Thousands Of staked claims bsys. never,
besn recorded; the owners Of thousands of
others have left the country and probably
forgotten they owned them. Yet under
HE limitation laws Of this Tsrr;tory. until
no one els. could touch them, OF,
L they did and the lead proved good, up
sprung these old claimants, and the prop
Dsty went into litigation 70 result in no good
10 anybody but the lawyers, and increased
IsxatIon On the people for the expenses Of
,uils. In year or two from this the evils
Df this state Of things would have been ruin
pus % the welfare u the country. Tile
seventh Legislature Of Mountains - regard |
ID, and ~ close out These ulonopolists . bill |
wss introduced . require III quarts ciaims |
10 he re stsked 1t = time half of them ars |
andsr snow). aud 70 Le re-staked each year
thereafter. That, falling, tax per foot
YES proposed. Il " Tscollect sright and
Jailed. Then an amendment 70 the limita. |
Ion law Va introduced and passed and i |
w . les. providing that % action shalI
" brought u recover any quartz or placer
mining claim, unless the party bringing |
10 aosion has bssn ID ssssal posssssion u I
he chin. Within the yrar preceding IL |
Ne nit, sndithae one yeafsD I'd.
1esse possession ct claim shall constituse |
Parties dan bring acstoa to 10
,Over pssssssioD any iiaas within one yssfI
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