The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-18

ITS regular session on the 18th day OF
rebruary. 1910 paper was read which
IIo.IEnjnrnted IaEjied upon a measure OF proposed
legislation lately introduced into Con-
sreSs and now pending, At the conclu-
SION OF the reading OF said paper. the
,le"s therein were discussed, and on mo-
iio1 OF Il. Gushing Moore. the motion be-
lnS dulN seconded and carried. the chair
man appointed comIpIttee OF three 10
urait resolutions In conformity with the
views expressed in said paper. copy OF
said resolutions To be by tho secretary
OF the society transmitted 90 each OF the
| Idaho,
In accordance with such motion the
committee reported as follows:
That whereas there has been in
troduccd at tho present session OF Con-
pcdling the Timber and Stone Act. and
| providing for the sale of timber upon
rate and apart from the land Itself:
| Be II resolved That 81 is the
sense OF tho Idaho Society of Engi-
neerS that such proposed legislation II
detrment 10 the mining interests Of the
state OF Idaho for the reasons
Tha, the said measure provides that
timber upon lands affected thereby shall
ne sold separate and apart from the lands
themselves, and that the purchaser Of
the timber shall have twenty years after
sale In which to remove the timber from
the land. and that said timber may be
sold either 10 individual citizens Of the
United states or to the associat ttons OF
That THE lands affected by this act
may be disposed of under the mineral or
coal land laws or Ia actual settlers only
laws: but no right title or interest In
or 10 the timber thereon shall he claimed
or acquired under any mineral location
or coal land or homestead entry, under
any patent issued hereunder: nor shall
such location. entry or patent preclude
the purchaser OF the timber on the land
use and occupancy OF such lands as may
be necessary TO the cutting and removal
or 10 the sale or milling OF the timber
That The proposed measure VIII result
in the timber upon existing mining
other than The owner OF the ground.
That the miner will have TO purchase
ground and pay therefore such price as
the timber owne" may exact, m
Thar the proposed measure will result
in endless litigation.
That the miner viii he hampered in the
building OF roads and bitches and In the
clearing OF millsites when such operations
destroy any part Of the timber upon The
land.
That in the case OF placer mining claims
the owner OF the claims may he com
ing the twenty years OF time allowed the
timber purchaser for the removal OF the
timber from the land.
That under the proposed law the UNI
and occupancy of the land as may be
necessary to the cutting and removal OF
the timber" which will leave the miner |
without recourse for damages to roads
bitches and other works damages sus-
.aIned by reason OF the logging OF the |
timber.
That the proposed measure is indefinite |
n that II does not state clearly mat eN-
sting mining locations shall he excluded |
rom Its operation.
That the hill does not provide any |
means by which the miner may effect "A
purchase of timber necessary for his use
n mining or necessarily removed and
in mining operations. even
hough the same be upon his own ground,
,xcept by buying the timber at what
yer eXtortlonate valuation the owner
nav place upon 1t.
That II adds TO the already great cost
4 mining the additional expense oi pur-
hasInr the timber required In mining
pcratlons.
Wherefore the Idaho Society of Cngi-
eers respectfully solIcits our members OF
congress- on behalf OF the mining m
erests OF the State of Idaho. to use their
influence TO prevent the passage OF the
roposed measure, or to secure amend
rents thereto either taking mineral lands
Mt of It's operation altogether or protect
Nc the mineral claimant absolutely.