The Arizona copper camp., 1919-11-15
full TEXT
OF BILL AS
INTRODUCED

In the House of Representatives No
vember Z. 1919.
Mr. Hayden introduced the follow
ing bill; which was referred to the
committee on the public lands and
ordered to be printed
A BILL
To provide for the disposal of pub
lie lands in Arizona New Mexico,
Nevada and Utah, containing de-
posits of copper at depth.
Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the
United States of America in con-
gress assembled, That the secretary
CT the interior is hereby authorized
and directed, under such rules and
regulations as he may prescribe, to
OF to any association of such per-
sons, or to any corporation organized
under the laws of the United States
or any state or territory thereof,
prospecting permits which shall give
the exclusive right for period Of
three years to prospect for deposits
of copper in rock in place underlying
an overburden of wash, conglomerate
or non-minera1 bearing formation, in
tracts of land in the states of Ari-
zona, New Mexico, Nevada or Utah,
belonging to the United States, con-
tanning one thousand two hundred
and eighty acres or less, upon con-
dition that the person, association,
.or corporation receiving any such
permit shall begin operations within
one year from the date of the per-
nit and shall within two years from
and after the date of the permit drill
one or more test holes, or sink one
or more test shafts, to a depth Of
not less than five hundred feet, un-
less a deposit of copper be sooner
discovered, and shall within three
years from and after the date of the
permit drill test hole or holes or
sink a test shaft or shafts to an
aggregate depth of not less thaS. fif-
teen hundred feet, unless a deposit
OF copper be sooner discovered. And
If it appear that the permittee shall
have complied with the foregoing re-
uuirements, but failed to discover
any deposit of copper, upon applica-
tion therefor such permit shall be
extended for further period of three
years upon condition that the per-
mittee shall during each year OF
such extension drill or sink five hun
dred feet, unless deposit of copper
be sooner discovered; and the secre-
! tary of the interior may, if he shall
: find that the permittee has been
unable, with the exercise OF dill
gence, to test the land in the time
/ granted by the permit or such extern
sion thereof, extend any such permit
| for such further time and upon such
| conditions as he shall prescribe with
view to the exploration of the
land embraced in the permit; Pro-
vided, That a tunnel or drift of
length equal to the depth required
for a drill hole or test shaft as here
inbefore provided shall be regarded
as the equivalent of any such drill
hole or test shaft so required.
Section 2. That whether the land
sought in any application be sur
veyed or unsurveyed the applicant
shall prior to filing his application
for permit locate such land in rea-
sonably compact form and according
to the legal subdivisions of the
public land surveys, if the land be
surveyed, or in an approximately
square or rectangular form if the
land be an unsurveyed tract, the
length. of which shall not exceed two
and one-half times its width If the
applicant shall cause to be erected
upon the land for which permit is
sought monument not less than
four feet high at some conspicuous
place thereon and shall place a no
tice in writing on or near such mon
ument, stating that an application
for permit will be made within thir-
ty days after date of said notice, the
name of the applicant, the date of
the notice, and such general descrip
tion of the land to be covered by
such permit ty reference to courses
and distances from such monument
and such other natural objects and
permanent monuments as will rea
sonably identify the land, stating the
amount thereof in acres, he shall
, during the period Of thirty days fol
, lowing such marking and posting be
entitled to preference right ovel
: others to permit for the land sc
. identified: Provided, That where
lands of the character hereinbefort
mentioned have been located an(
> held as mining claims and annua