The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-09-13

The current issue or the Mining
Congress Journal contains informa-
ton regarding the proposed suspen-
sion of the law requiring annual as
sessment work on mining claims dur
ing the war, from which it appears
that there Is still a chance to get the
bill through congress, although it will
be too late to help many claim own
ers who have already performed the
work. The fact that Secretary Lane
favors the law that Is now before the
house must be taken as a most favor
able indication that it will eventually
pass as the administration generally
gets what it goes after in the pres
ent congress. The Mining Congress
Journal says:
Change Senate Bill.
When Senator Shafroth's bill sus-
pending, under certain conditions, the
annual assessment work on mining
claims reached the house committee
on mines and mining, after having
passed the senate, it was almost re-
written. The bill as changed by the
house committee reads as follows:
BE it enacted, etc. That the pro-
visions of section numbered twenty
three hundred and twenty four of the
Revised Statutes of the United States,
which require that on each claim To-
Gated after the tenth day Of May,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
and until ptaent has been issued
therefor, nots less than one hundred
dollars worth Of labor shall be per-
formed or improvements made during
each year, be suspended for the year
nineteen hundred and seventeen, so
that no mining claim which has been
regularly located and recorded as re-
quired by the local laws and mining
regulations shall be subject to for
fixture for performance OF the
annual assessment for the year nine
teen hundred and seventeen: Provid-
ed, That the claimant or claimants Of
any mining location in order to secure
the benefits of this act, shall cause to
be recorded in the office where the 10
cation notice or certificate is filed on
or before December thirty-firs nine
teen hundred and seventeen. notice
that he or they in good faith intend
to hold and work said claim.
"Sec. 2. That this act shall take eff
feet from and after its passage
Lane Approves.
Secretary Lane, Of the interior de-
partment, expresses his opinion Of the
bill as follows:
IS. ]. Res 7S. as passed by the SEN
ate, proposes to relieve owners OF
mining locations from performing the
annual assessment work required by
existing law during the existing war.
provided that each such claimant shall
spend each year the sum of 500 in
raising, producing or manufacturing
products for the army, navy or people
of the United States, or shall perform
$25 worth of labor in any beneficial
occupation, or shall pay into the
treasury the sum of 800.
81 submitted an unfavorable report
upon this measure to the chairman OF
the committee on mines and mining,
house of representatives, July IL,
suggesting that the production of the
minerals is important, as well as the
growing of agricultural crops, and
that, in my opinion, the exemption
from performance Of assessment work
should not extend further than to the
claims owned by officers and enlisted
men Of the United States army and
navy, which exemption is provided for
by an act recently passed.
1.-THE house committees substitute
for 8. J. Res. rs is substantially to
the effect that owners Of mining To-
cations shall be relieved from the per-