Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-30

with phases of the industry. About 1 four years ago an act provided that such a law be drafted and the aid of the Canadian Mining Institute was enlisted. Part of the country will not come under the law some provinces own the public lands within their borders. In others, British Columbia | for example, while the Provincial act will govern the greater part of the area, Federal act will apply in cer- tain parts. The British Columbia act is that most cited for comparison with out law. Prior to 1892 extra-lateral right was permitted. In that year a non-retroactive law WIS passed mak- | ing mining claims 1900 it. square, and limiting them in depth to the ground within vertical planes passed through their boundaries. The new law has worked well in that respect. As in Mexico. the surface does not pass with the mineral rights. Enough land is allowed for operating needs, the remainder is retained by the Crown.
 Of the Mexican law it has been l furnishes the best example of liber- al and progressive system of mining laws of any which has heretofore been adopted in any country" The owner ship of all metalliferous deposits on public or private lands is vested in the Nation. Title in fee simple is not granted The government gives a perpetual lease for fixed tax per unit-claim. Failure to pay the tax forfeits the ground Property rights are secure and mines are transferred as readily as if titles were in fee simple.
 1 The unit claim or "pertenencia" contains PAY acres and is a square 100 meters (S2S ft.) on a side There is no limit to the number permitted to one locator. Boundaries bear no prescribed relation to the course of the deposit. No discovery or proof of mineral character is required. No act on the ground can give title to the locator; his location (denounce- menu is made by applying at the proper mining agency for govern ment title. Prior to securing title he is prohibited from making any open ings more than 33 it. long or deep and from shipping ore. Mining rights are limited by vertical planes through the boundaries. Surface rights must be acquired by procedure separate from that for obtaining mineral rights. | The locator must put up money for his application and pay his annual taxes in cash, as there is no work . hn 1o4r ture bears hard on the penniless pros 2ector. In short, authority is granted to work prism of ground Of definite horizontal dimentions and indefiniate vertical depth; instead of a certain length on atvein or lode the under Gground behavior of which cannot be predicted.
 l Congress did not impose the Law of the Apex on the Philippines | Claims are square, 300 meters (9S6 ft.) on side and vertical planes through their boundaries limit mining rights. Claims are held as in the United States by annual assessment work to the amount of S100 per claim A de fective feature is that there is no pro vision for discovery work. By re- I indefinitely without work. It is neces- sary. as in the United States. that $500 worth of development be done before patent can be obtained The Philippine government has the right to provide rules for the regulation of mining. The law works a hardship in limiting each locator to one claim on each lode, though this has been de cided by the Attorney-General not to prohibit the holding of any number of patented claims by one person or cor poration.
 | Vertical side-lines apply in Austra- lia and New Zealand. Litigation is almost unknown.-EDITOR.)
 The Act of 1872. Aside from the apex feature, the act of 1872 has faults that have in one way or another an tunfavorable effect on the industry. 1The land office has full records of patented claims but none at all of claims being held by location and as sessment. This places upon the ap- plicant for patent the burden of ad- vertising for someone who may dis pute his title.
 This bit of dialogue does not ex- lggerate Uncle Sam's general attitude toward the mineral claimant:
 Uncle Sam: Well. son, what it is (?
 Son: I want patent on the Twi- light claim in the Moonrise mining dis trict, Apache county, Arizona.
 Suncie Sam: I guess you can have it if none ito .lia eaweekCSP.- -vbgkqi it if you are sure that none of the other boys has beaten you in locating the ground.
 Son: Oh. l am sure of that l Uncle Sam: I'm not though. I can ell in minute after your surveys Ire in if you are trying to take ground have already sold, but unpatented locations might be ten deep on that Twilight ow yours and I'd be never the wiser.
 | Son: Aren't you rather careless about your property,
 | Uncle Sam: Maybe, but I've al ways had more than l knew what to 10 with. Tell you what, though you 70 ahead. put up your deposit with the