The copper era., 1909-11-18

the electric power produced is re-
 quired to be paid as rental tor the
 easements which may be the sites of
 any of the water or electric power
 works which may be within the Ma tional Forest.
 Fourth. The business of mining re- quires the existence of commercial facilities in the vicinity of the min
 ing claims, suchas stores, hotels, road
 houses, public stables and the private
 residential opportunities of towns. The public land has always been open to such commercial settlement, tenn
 porary or permanent as would provide
 the commercial opportunities and
 facilities to the mining industry.
 In direct opposition to this, the per sonal administration to this, the per sonal administration of the National Forest Service absolutely refuses to
 permit the new establishment of such
 commercial facilities to mining in-
 side of the National Forest. Where
 the establishment has been in exist
 ence- before the part of the National
 Forest which includes it, the National
 Forest Service has been known to
 refuse to sell to the commercial oc- cupants sufficient timber to provide
 fuel to make life supportable. The
 writer has personal knowledge of an
 instance of this kind.
 The business of mining requires some supply of lumber usually ob- tained from nearby commercial saw mills. Ia many mining districts now included in the National Forest this supply of lumber was obtained from local sawmills at prices little. above the cost of actual manufacture. Since the establishment of the na- tional forest, the personal administra- tion of it has increased the cost of lumber to the mining consumers by charging high stumpage rate to the saw mills.
 The second count of the complaint is that the personal administratio of the National Forest Service adminis- ters as it's personal policy the sub version of the United States mining statutes providing for the patenting of mining claims. This it does by maintaining the proposition that for a mining claim in the National For est to be entitled to be patented, the mineral it bears must be demonstrated to the National Forest Service as at profit.
 The mining statutes make as re- quirements for patent of a mining claim only two conditions, first, that valuable mineral must be known to exist in minable quantities sufficient to induce mining, at the date of ap- plication for patent, and, second, that the applicant for patent and grantors shall have expended not less than $500 in mining work for the develop ment of the claim.
 In direct opposition to this, the per sonal administration of the National Forest Service undertakes the ex- animation of all mining claims in the National Forest for which patent is applied for, protests the issuance of patent to mining claims for which ap- plicants do not prove the existence of mineral in payable quantities as the National Forest Service. defines payable quantities, and compels to prove land not valuable for timber.
 To understand precisely the relation of the two counts of the complaint of the mining industry against the per sonal administration of the National Forest Service, it is necessary to un- derstand the governmental policy un- der which the mining industry has come into existence.
 In the first place, the governmental policy to the mining industry is the of the peoples policy as 1t became developed from the actual C 0nditions of mining, whereas the Ma tional Forest Service policy is ,reign importation engrafted on our government by the personal efforts of the imr rorters so recently that the mass of our people as we'll as most of it's advocates have very little know ledge of it.
 The governmental policy toward the mining industry recognizes the adverse physical conditions under which the mines exist and the private hazards and risks to life and property which must be undertaken in their discovery and working. recognizes that the discovery of mines requires private initiative inspired by the nope of unusual gains. It recognizes tEat all of the people of the country share in the output of the mines and in the profit of the dis covery and working of the mines. It the principle that the more mines discovered and the greater their immediate direct profit to the 1iscoverers, the greater is their