The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-11

IN the movement for the revision
.ha mining laws, is endeavoring to
de6nite expression from all who
20 interested in the mining industry
a. the changes desired. To that end
sories of questions have been pre-
.,d and distributed among the mem
sors of the various mining associa-
.,ons of the country which cover the
more important changes. The Dues
.,ons may be answered yes" or NO"
and those who receive them are re-
onasted to mail them to the secretary
~ the association at once. Members
~ the Idaho Mining association have
hean supplied with these questions
and should answer and mail them to
Payenal Macbeth, secretary Boise.
The annual meeting of the association
will be held on January 1917, when
the result of the referendum vote will
be made known.
The Questions.
1. Shall it be aimed to preserve to
tbe maximum possible extent the
nhraseology of our present mining law
and it's principles of administration,
thus retaining the benefit of some of
the wealth of legal definitions that
have been rendered at great cost?
Q. Shall the new mining law be
made to cover all classes of valuable
mineral deposits other than coal, and
shall that intention be defined so
clearly that there will be no misun-
derstanding Of 1t?
8. Shall actual discovery of a valu-
able mineral deposit be necessary to a
valid location of a claim?
4. Or shall the new law authorize
mineral locations without discovery in
any part of the public lands officially
classed as mineral; and mineral loca-
tons upon discovery in any part of the
public lands whether officially classed
as mineral or non mineral?
S. Shall there further be a provi-
sion permitting bona fide prospecting
on land classified as mineral and
protecting the prospector in the mean
while?
6. Shall article 4, if adopted be fur
Their limited so that patent may not be
secured until discovery has been
made?
Or eholl discnvarv or pon dicrov
cry be immaterial in patenting?
8. Or shall there be required q con-
siderably larger payment for land pat
ented without discovery than with it?
8. If Article 6 be adopted shall
there be the proviso that only one dis
covery need be made for a group Of
contiguous claims of one ownership?
10. Shall mineral claims hereafter
located be $50 feet square, i. e., 10
acres in size and square in form?
II. Or shall they be 1920 feet square
e., 40 acres?
II. Or shall the claim unit be $50
feet square, with the proviso that
when four units be located in a square
of 1920 feet sides only the exterior cor
ners (or lines) need be monumented?
49, When the proposed square
claims are located on surveyed land
Shall they be required to be subdivi-
sions of the surveyed sections?
IA. If not located on surveyed land,
shall 1t be required that the boundar-
les run north and south and east and
west?
Is. Shall the number of claims To-
Gated by one person or association be
limited or unlimited?
Is. If limited, what shall be the
limit?
II. Shall existing regulations con-
corning the marking, notice and record
of location be continued?
Is. Shall there be the requirement
that within 80 days after the date OF
location, record thereof shall be made
In the U. s land office Of the district?
10. Or shall the time allowed fol
recording be more or less than 81
days? If so, what?
20. Shall the annual assessment
work be at the present rate, viz, $1OC
per 20-acre claim, /. e., SIS per acre?
81 Shall it be provided that al
equivalent sum of money may be paiC
into the U. s. land Office in lieu of thu
performance of assessment work?
%. Or shall it be provided that al
Increased sum of money--say $3.50 pc
acre-may be paid into the U. S. Liant
office In lieu of the performance Of as
sessment work?
20, Shall person or association
holding a group of contiguous claim
De permitted to do the assessmen
work upon one claim and thereby hol
the group, the amount of such wor
to be equivalent to SIS per acre TO
each claim of the group?
"a, Shall a person or association
doing assessment work in any one yea
10 the value of more than $50 per 10
acre claim be given credit for the ex
cess In succeeding years, providing
however, that no fractions Of $50 sha
De considered for this purpose? q
the claim unit be 40 acres, these fig
ures would be raised to $1,000.
20. Shall there be emphatic Prov
slons to insure the honest performanc
OF animal aacaScpnnnt morlk2