The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-02-25

III seems carrying inconsistency tf
ridiculous 3gree for this nation. ir
the prosecution of a fad, to include
Ia its conservation idea the conscrva-
ton of its idle virgin gold resources
especially when, according to press re-
ports it is in position az temporarily
repudiating It's debts aprocd and tC
! have been on the verge to suspension
of specie payment in it's effort tt
maintain the legal requirements Of its
available gold reserves,
The specific instances of discourage
ment to the discovery and development
of new sources OF gold by the present
national policy are it's petty super
Ivisory restrictions in the acquisition
of title to mining lands through the
special agents, Forest Reserve officer.
and Interior Department rulings, anc
the petty ways under which they oper-
late, which are so inimicat to the dis
the direct persecution of established
gold producing enterprises with un
warranted and morally outlawed
claims against mining companies for
cutting timber on public lands during
years gone by, when such privilege
were recognized and countenanced BY
the federal authorities as a pioneer
necessity and always had been.
Demand Pay for Worthless Timber
A specific instance in this connec-
ton is in the case of the Delamar
Mining company, one of our oldest and
most substantial mining enterprises in
Owyhee county, who have enriched the
commerce of the country with millions
Of dollars worth of new gold from an
operation on a desert range of noun
tains remote from railroad transporta-
tion. where they had to depend on the
wood rustlers of the region for the few
knotty stulls they needed and their
domestic fuel requirements, consisting
largely of desert brushWood that never
had any lumber value and which was
bought and paid for at excessive prices
by reason of its scarcity and which
they are now asked to pay for again
at finished lumber values, which the
never possessed, on the find
ings of an officious special agent, I'M
der the bureaucratic rulings of ou
controlled federal depart
ments at Washington, based on the
been permanently annulled by common
usage and constitutional pioneer priv
ileges of the previous history of the
entire nation.
This company has produced gold
bullion to the value of several hundred
thousand dollars a year since it was
first incorporated, more than 20 years
ago. OF late years 1t has gotten into
lean ground on which the possible mar.
gin of profit was very small, and this
unjust suit of the government for the
recovery of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars has disheartened and
discouraged its operators to the poin'
Of almost total suspension, with the
loss to the Idaho gold yield
hat was seriously felt during the past
year and is likely to result in the total
of unsoIved geological
problems that are rich with the prom
Sc of big virgin coin metal results.
government After Anaconda Company
A similar suit which | believe de-
hands ten times the value of this one
s hanging like a Damocles sword over
he Anaconda Copper company of
Suite, Montana, for timber used dur
1g the ancient history or us ,ioneer (
lays, which it seems to be is also an
MUST exaction and persecution that
he gold producing industry Is called
pom to bear, totally inconsistent with
he present urgent needs of this nation
or an additional supply of new gold.
The unearned increment to our ma h
Ional government in the way Of bev-
age revenues alone that has accrued
om the Anaconda's operation in Mon
ma as a result Of the use Of that tim
er, has probably amounted to several {
mes the excessive charges now being {
'ught, and the efforts of this grea $
oneer company in mining and metal {
'gy is largely responsible for the {
'esent great copper sulphide ore min I
g and treatment industry in the G
nited States of America, which re- S
llted In giving this nation monop t
in the copper metal business of d
e world that makes the German pot r
IN monopoly we hear so much about |;
EN- like a talcum powder trust by n
mparison, in addition to which this t
mpany's pioneer work can be safely II
edited with a big percentage of our y
ssent annual gold yield. 4