Mohave County miner., 1914-04-25
Next Tuesday another jury session

of the Superior Court will be held at which a number of causes will be tried, some of which are very impor- tant. One of the important causes that will soon be threshed out before the court will be the miners lien law, which was passed by the first Arizona legislature and referred to tho people and became a law. While the law as a whole may not be unconstitutional, the right to contract is impaired. Courts have held that where work on a mine has been done to the benefit of the property lien may be held good, but where nothing accrues to the benefit of the property it does not ap pear that the courts will hold such property lisnable. In a recent Wyom- ing case the court held that the law was unconstitutional. the act requiring that every individual or corporation operating property under lease shall give bond in at least the sum of 5,000$ to guarantee the payment of all debts that might become due against the property on account of liens, but such bond should be taken out through a company operating in the state and none other. The court held that this act impaired the right to contract and was void. While our laws does not go that far it imposes upon tho mine the burden of all debt that may have been contracted by the party operating the mining property, without giving the owner look in as to the validity of the claims against the lessee. While the property of the lessor is being taken only the lessee, by whose act the debt was reated, can defend, the poor mine owner sitting idly by and seeing his property taken without giving him 8 chance to say whether the supplies were ever furnished the mine or that such work had been done on it as alleged. Had the law gone to the extent of even allowing the mine owner to defend an action for such debt. it would give him run for his money. but such is not the case. If the lessee found that he was up against it it is not to be supposed that he would defend suit against him, and no one else could raise an issue that the courts would consider. For this reason we believe the law is not con stltutional enactment, as It takes prop erty without due process.
 Andy Frazier was in Kingmsn a few days ago from from the -tidenour mlne, at Grand Canyon, where he and others have been taking out a large amount of copper ore. He stated that the mine was looking fine and as soon as the roads are in good condition the | big teams will begin the haulage of ore to the railroad. While only the richer of the ores can be shipped to the smelter there are many hundreds of tons that will run above fifteen per cent that will have to be left on the dumps for the present. The haulage l to the railroad is about 45 miles by wagon road and also has to be packed four miles over a trial through the bluffs of the canyon. This mine is one of the most peculiarly situated of the ore de positions of Arizona, the vein coming mp from the basic lime through at least 800 feet of sandstone. Through the layers of sandstone the i flow of copper and lime has run out over wide area. The shaft has been sunk to depth of over 300 feet through the same material, the walls being sandstone and the filling lime and copper. It would appear that the heated lime waters were spewed up through big cleft ;n the sandstone ard the copper leached into these mag matlc waters, forming the oxides and carbonates. The fact that all deposi- tions of coppers in the country around the Grand Canyon are the same would lead to the belief that all the copper was thrown down by the same action following the subsistence of the Grea at Salt Lake.
 Tax Commissioner Miller was in Kipyman several days this week get