The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-04-22

IN out, II at all, at great cost. If 1t SO
happened that the ore was poor on
top and grew rich a depth. the original
"discoverer" (prospectoT) would own
Only the outer worthless shell, and the
/ other dozen (who had nothing 10 do
with tie discovery would own the
mime,
Apex and Litigation.
| The only complaint against the law
land that re sed chiefly by the con
seryation bureaus'D has been that
there is Mitigation" under it, when the
chief object of a law is the proper
conduct OF litigation not tie atoppaGe
iof honest litigatlCh.
Practically ali the litigation has
risen through the efforts of greedy in
Idividuals seeking to lake Advantage"
Of this benetcert law, and II is MOI for
them we are pleading When we state
that an effective remedy" for mos;
of this litigation has continuously
since 1872 been suggested by the min
ers and prospestors themselves, in
stalking what is known as 'protec-
the protection claim arose all subse
discovery" claim on the side which
the vein dips TIE trouble has been
that this protection" claim could not
be legally held without the discovery
required by law to initiate the proceed
ling of location" The protection
claims have been commonly recognized
and respected by the miners and pros
Ipectora themselves, but tie moment
! The original find" appears Of g"eal
value, the protection" claim was
Jumped" and throug3 the ground Of
the protection claim across all subse-
quent litigation,
/ The plain duty of congress is -
! enact a law authorizing this "protec-
ton" claim to be held for one year
without discovery" and If no discoH-
i cry is made within the year, then the
ground to lapse back to the public do
main, but II discovery" is made with
in the y ear then the owner to proceed
| with his protection claim under the
regular law for lode claims
The miners and prospectors have NJ
complaint against the apex law, and no
complaint to make against any Of the
present existing laws of congress rs
lthey affect lode claims and lode min
| ing; and they earnestly pray that no
revision" amendment, or abrogation
of the same be now attempted
| Origin of Mining Law.
Our present National Mining Code,
in as far as it relates to lode claims"
is simply the District Rule of Min
ers," originated in the mining camps
Of California in 1S49, before the estab-
Ilishment of even Janitorial govern
Iment The miners and prospectors Of
those days sat in frequent legislative
sessions, and made their own laws
Iconduct of their prospecting and min
ling operations. These direct rules"
with local variations, quickly spread
lover the whole Rockey mountain area,
lIHDIn the TdCillC OCbuu W llit plSoVhS
site of Denver from the Canadian line
Ito the Mexican border, and continued
1.-The Flaw of the land" administered by
Ial courts, even the supreme court Of
1.-THE United States. For % years the
miners and prospectors in the field
Earnestly strove to perfect these laws
Iof the government Of mining and pros
pecting. The result was the most per-
fleet code of mining laws that the hu-
man ingenuity of those actually oper-
Iatlng in the field could devise. Every
thing was tried, and the useless, the
poorest, the ineffective and impracti-
cable we're weeded out. On May 10,
I1S72, the results of their labors-the
district rules" were enacted by con-
gress at the National Mining Code;
land for the last 43 years the miners
and prOspectors of our country have
successfully carried on their business
under that code-and under that code
they have taken the grandest strides In
mining ever witnessed on this earth
But alas! We have the patent
medicine man. ever with us!
In the early days of Pinchotism, Pin
lchot enacted a direct rule: Pros
Ipectors shall not carry guns In the for
est reserves!" This was due to his
paternal love for the bear, and his sub
lime desire to make Of the prospeotor
a vegetarian!
If, as now proposed by some, 'revi-
sion" of our present mining code We're
to be made by Commission appoint
ed by Secretary Lane, ]. e, the CON
Iservaton bureaus" the very first sec
Ition of that revision" would read
Sec. l. The Prospectors Shall Not
Prospect"
Vast multitudes Of our younger min
ling engineers have flooded our mining
Journals with their dictum as to how
they would revise" our mining code
flor lode claims. They are advised to
turn their eyes inward, survey their
Iown "whereat," and they will "dlscoV-
err" much to their astonishmcnt, that
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