The Nome daily nugget., 1908-08-03
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eld Federal statutes passed la tu. Af- tiss. and almost without amendment up ta the present tune WHFs Because. my fellow citizens and this brings u~ right back t4 tae old issue b.cauv,. every great mining territory and ev- ery great mining stale in the United states has local legislatures. and as these were formed. statutes were pass ed and the mining laws supplemented aud made applicable Co local coudi- tians. There is uat a single. mining state In thu United States today whose statute huuks arc mi mn uf mining regulations applicable to local cuHdI- ttaus. In my Judgment il is entirely impossible properly develop tBl4 eted territory and give just protee- ton ta it's people under tHc application ef these oId federal statutes. Teday ther. l. ua security cor GNitv of fiur te u placer cl8i min Alaska. Do yeu kHpw of anyhedy. d8 yea kHsV af a placer miner, or masher er prasreetpr
 Fh" has eyer laeatsd claim au Sew .ard Peninsula and uncovered th- ray- -tr,ak th9t has Hut had trouhlea bd vau ever know of aae"
 Tbe#h"uest Fro#faaetar ar mining nan. after bong tpil and trouble. finds hi= promising piece of vacant pabHc domain makes his discovery. puts down his stakes. marks his monuments of tille. sa that all NHu run may read. and complies in every way in food faith with all the laws of the laud hr may 20 on day after day and month aftor month digging in thc sufl. suck iHE the pay streak. exciting only Inc
 sympathy uf his friends who commi-- crate his folly in spcndiug his fimr and money in such hopeless pursuit Yet. f Inc. in lime discovers thr Fay streak. when he wakes uP in tho morning he can't find his claim for stakes. the country in hts viciait, books more like u stuuted growth of pine lhau tundra. and in almost every instance this Irads to bong and cx- psu-A, and aa-times ruiuens and zneuugy endless litigation. which a eenr man can nol br able =aec,#-ruI- ls tu meet
 You know, my fellow citizens. d lot af peorI. object c. territorial govern meut breau+r of the fear of additional taxes aud expenses. But here touieht in the presence of this magnificent au- dieuee. m the presence of men as fa- niIiar with the facts as myself, | do mot hesitate to give il as my judgment that thc expenses of blael-man niga- tion by Jumpers and shystcr lawyers would have defrayed the total cxpens- es uf territorial government. d.oud ap- pause)
 Another thing in passing. There is almost a universal consensus of opinion against what Is termed the as sociation claim. Let me call your at teutieH ta this fact There are many miners here from all oyer the United States. and all oyer the world: there is not another mining state or tcrri- tory in the United States. or in any other country today, that cnuntcnanc- '.s the association claim. where a man can gp and make a location on the ground of eight claims. or leo acres. and only have to do the assessment work of one claim upon it. and ram sack some graveyard for names with which to make his location. There is n" other country that stands for it. The people of Alaska don't want t. Why don't they get rid of it? They have not done so. so farthey have not been able 10 get rid of it. I say to vou. fellow citizens. while We have not been able to get reelase from congress. it Is my information and belief. that two and half years ago. congress stood ready to abolish the association claim and power of attorney in locating a claim, and would have done so except for opposition that came for Alaska. from speculators and corporations who wanted to own it all; but even the abolishment of the association claim and the power of attorney location would not fully relieve the situation. so long as one man can locate and has the right to locate the whole of Sew ard Peninsula. provided he can find stakes to do it; and if he is the sort of a man We frequently meet, he does not need stakes - he will swear to them later
 New when got into the Panama valley. which I just left few days ago TT it seems like a month ago from the trip I had down = found q condition of affairs prevailing there. which I am pleased to say I never found to exist on Seward Peninsula. Be it said to the credit of Seward Peninsula that there has been no vide spread evil of the sort found there. I refer to the large number of wage earners in that vicinity who in one way or another have been cheated out of