Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-28
MINING IN THE YUKON.
Canadian Government Issues lis Re ulaiions
Relating Thereto.
SOME ARE OF A STRINGENT CHARACTER.


William Ogilvle, 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
follows:
Free miner shall mean n male or
female over the age of is but not under
that age. or joint stock company
named in and lawfully possessed OF
valid existing free 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
applicants then existing certificate
upon the payment thereof of the sum
of $40 unless the certificate is to be is
sued in favor of a joint stock company
in which case the fee shall be $50; for
a company having a nominal capital
exceeding 100000. the fee shall be 500.
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 provisions of law; the
privilege OF cutting timber for actual
necessities, for building houses, boats
and for general mining operations, for
the exclusive use of the miner himself;
but such permission shall not extend to
timber which may have been granted
to other persons or corporations.
Certificates may be obtained by APP
plicants in person at the demand of the
interior, Ottawa, or from the agents OF
Dominion lands at Winnipeg. Man;
Calgary, Edmonton, Prince Albert, in
the Northwest Territory, kamloops and
Newwestminster, b. c., at Dawson. in
the Yukon district also from agents of
the governments at Vancouver and
Victoria, b. C.
mo person or Joint stock company
will be recognized as having any right
or interest in or to any claim unless
he or 1t or every person in his or It's
employment shall have a free miners
certificate unexpired. And, on the ex-
piration of free miners certificate the
owner thereof shall absolutely forfeit
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 certifi-
cate such failure shall not cause for
feiture or act as abandonment of the
claim: but the interest of such CO.
owners, pro rata according to their
former interests: provided. neyerthe-
less, that share holder In Joint
stock company need not be a free
miner. Every free miner shall during
the continuance of his certificate, have
the rght to enter, prospect or mine for
gold and other minerals upon any
lands in the Yukon district whether
vested in the crown or otherwise, ex-
cept upon government reservations and
land lawfully occupied; creek. gulch.
river or hill claim shall not exceed $50
feet in length In the general direction
of the stream or ravine on which 1t
fronts and shall not be more than 1000
feet in width. Every alternate ten
claims shall be reserved for the gov
eminent of Canada"
That is to say, when claim Is locat-
ed the dlscoverer claim and nine addi-
tional claims adjoining each other and
numbered consecutlvely 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 a
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 mining claim.
and the refusal of the acceptance of
any application which the persons tres
passing may at any time make for a
claim. II any free miner or party of
free miners discover a new mine and
such discovery shall be established to
the satisfaction of the mining recorder
creek, river or hill claims of the fol-
lowing size shall be allowed:
To one discoverer. of claim, 800 feet
in length; to n party OF two discoveries
two claims, amounting together to
1000 feet In length; to each member of
a party beyond two in number claim
of the ordinary size only.
A claim shall be recorded with the
mining recorder in whose district It is
situated within ten days after the To-
cation thereof.
Entry shall not be granted for
claim which has not been staked by the
applicants In person In the manner
specified In these regulations. An en-
try fee of SIS shall be charged the first
year, and an annual fee of SIS for each
of the following years. A royalty of 10
per cent on the gold mined shall be
levied and collected on the gross out
put of each claim. The sum of 81, 500
shall he deducted from the gross annu-
al output of a claim when estimating
the amount upon which royalty is to be
calculated but this exemption shall not
be allowed unless the royalty is paid at
banking Office or to the gold commits
sloner or mining recorder.
The following regulations are adopt
companies who have obtained free
miners certificate to dredge for miner
ais other than coal in the submerged
beds or bars of rivers in the provisional
district of Yukon in the Northwest
Territory:
The lessee shall be given the ex-
elusive right to subaqueous mining and
dredging for all minerals with the ex-
ception of coal In and along an un-
broken extent OF five miles of n river.
No more than six such leases will be
issued in favor OF any individual or
company, so that the maximum extern
OF river in and along which any indI-
vidual or company shall be given the
exclusive right above mentioned shall
under no circumstances exceed 30 miles
The lease shall be for term of 20
years, renewable In the discretion Of
the minister Of the interior. The lessee
shall have at least one dredge in opera
tion upon the five miles Of river leased
to him within two seasons from the
date of his lease, and N, during one
season when no operations can be car
ricd on he fails to efficiently work the
same TO the satisfaction of the minister
OF the Interior the lease shall become
null and void unless the minister OF the
interior shall otherwise decide, ~
provided that when any company or
Individual has obtained more than one
lease, one dredge for each fifteen miles
or portion thereof shall be held to be
compliance with this regulation.