The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-28
PLACER MINING IN YUKON.
Canadian Government Decides Upon
the Legal Conditions.


Ottawa. Ont, Jan. 2S.-After careful
/ consideration, and with the advice OF
William Ogilvie, the great Canadian
/ authority on the Yukon country, the
department of the interior has decided
upon the legal conditions which are to
govern placer mining in the Yukon. The
: regulations, in substance, are as fol
lows:
r'ree miner shall mean a male or
female over the age of Is, but not under
that age, or joint stock company named
in and lawfully possessed of valid ex-
listing tree miners certificate, and no
other.
"A free miners certificate shall not be
transferable. This certificate may be
granted for one year, to run from the
date thereof, or expiration OF the appll-
cant's then existing certificate, upon
the payment thereof of the sum of $40,
unless the certificate is to be issued in
favor Of joint stock company in which
case the fee shall be S5Gi for a company
ha.ing a nominal capital exceeding
500, 600, the fee shall be SlOO. only one
person or Joint stock company shall be
named in a certificate. This certificate
shall also grant the holder the privilege
OF fishing and shooting, subject to pro-
visions of law; the privilege of cutting
timber for actual necessities, for build
ing houses, boats and for general min
ing opera tons: for the exclusive use Of
the miner himself, but such permission
shall not extend tC timber which may
have been granted to other persons or
corporations.
Certificates may be obtained by ap-
phcants in person at the demand OF
the interior, Ottawa, or from the agents
of dominion lands at Winnipeg, Man;
loo 4 & in
the northwest territory, Kamloops and
New Westminster. 3. c., at Dawson,
in the Yukon district, also from agents
of the government at Vancouver and
Victoria, 3. c.
No person or joint stock company will
be recognized as having any right or
interest in or to any claim unless he
or it, or every person in his or its en-
ployment shall have a free miners
certificate unexpired. And, on the eX
piration of a free miners certificate
the owner thereof shall absolutely for
felt all his rights and interest unless
he shall, on or before the day following
the expiration of such certificate OBJ
tain a new free miners certificate.
Nevertheless. should any co-owner fail
TO keep up his free miners certificate
such failure shall not cause a for
fixture or act as abandonment of the
claim; but the interest of such CO.
owners, pro rata according to their
former interests; provided, neverthe-
less, that a shareholder in joint
stock company need not be a free
miner. Every free miner shall, during
the continuance of his certificate, have
the right to enter prospect or mine for
gold and other minerals upon any
lands in the Yukon district whether
vested in the crown or otherwise lex
cept upon government reservations and
land lawfully occupied). a creek,
sulch, river or hill claim shall not eX-
coed $50 feet in length in the general
direction of the stream or ravine on
which it fronts and shall not be more
than 1000 feet in width.
Every alternate ten claims shall be
reserved for the government of
Canada. That is to saw when a claim
is located. the discoverer claim and
nine additional claims adjoining each
other, and numbered consecutively,
will be open for registration Then the
next ten claims OF % feet each will be
reserved for the government, and SO on.
The penalty for trespassing upon
claim reserved for the crown shall be
immediate cancellation of any entry or
entries which the persons trespassing
may have obtained whether by original
entry or purchase for a mining claim,