Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-11-27

"hb 70 % u6eu ~ the christening
than a guest would have to do with
what was served ON your table,
Desirable mInlug haw Changes.
Mining & sclenth6 Press
The vital changes in the present
mining laws proposed to be made
by the Newlands bill, elsewhere
printed, have all been duly consid-
cred by the special committee Of
the California Miners Association.
They include several provisions to
be found in the Stewart bill, but
omit all'thRt have been declared
undesirable by the Miners conven-
ton Of last year. Several provis-
ions which the Stewart bill pro-
poses TO omit ere restored
by this bill. It may be,
however, that, on consider
alton, the Miners convention
of next week will decide to abandon
the efforts TO pass the so-called
Newlands bill and endeavor to
graft its provisions upon the Stew
art bill in the shape OF amend
ments, in the house. The latter
bill has already passed the senate,
and it might be easier to amend it
than to obtain recognition for an
entirely new Measure
In the Newlends bill, as at pres
ent drawn, It is proposed TO define
in a clearer manner the method of
making locations of mining claims,
that paragraph in the revised stat
utes being made to read as follows,
the words in italic being inserted
in the new bill:
The location must be distinctly marked
on the ground by posts or nso1tut-
D1entS, SO that its boundaries can be
readily traced.
The following modification as to
the period in which assessment
work shall be done, is made:
"That the period within which
the work required to be done
annually on mineral claims shall
commence at II o'clock D1eTEd-
ian on the FIRST day of January
succeeding the date Of location of
such claim. When the labor re-
quired by this act shall have been
performed or the improvements
made, an affidavit may be fled
within thirty days after the time
limited for performing such labor
or making such improvements
with the recorder of deeds of the
county in which the claim or mine
is situated, particularly describing
the labor performed and improve
ments made, and the value thereof,
which affidavit shall be prima facie
evidence of the facts therein stated.
And upon a failure to comply with
the conditions of this act in the
performance of labor or making of
improvements, the claim or mine
upon which such failure occurred
shall be open to relocation in the
same manner as if no location of
the same had ever been made"
This paragraph is all new mat
ter.
A succeeding provision is al
tered to read as follows, the words
"a patent being replaced by the
words in italics:
On all claims located prior TO the tenth
day of May, eighteen hundred and sew
enty two, ten dollars worth Of labor
shall be performed or improvements
made during each year for each one hun
dred feet in length along the vein until
payment of the purchase money
and a certificate of entry has been
issued therefor; but where such claims
are held in common such expenditure
may be made upon any one claim.
This is in accordance with the
express recommendation of the
State Miners Association. The
following new provision is added
in cases Of notice upon co-ovners
who fail to contribute their share
of expenditure for assessment
work:
Il copy of such notice, t06ether
IOith an affidavit Showing personal
service or publication, as the case
may be. of such notice, tChen fled
and recorded I0ith the recorder of
deeds Of the county in which such
mining claim is situated, shall be
evidence Of the acquisition of title
Of such cO-OuyieFs.
Section 1884 OF the Revised
Statutes is amended by adding
thereto the following:
Ind the surveyors appointed 1tya-
der the provisions of this section
shall hare pOICer to administer
OathS to their assistants.
Section 1886 is amended by the