The Coconino sun., 1921-09-09
'DOUC" WAKES SOLEMN
 ON HAYlEN'S MINE LAW

introduced a bill and had it passed in congress which is of great benefit to prospectors and miners. We refer to that of changing the date for annual representation from December 31 of each year to June, when the weather is much more adapted in most mining communities of the west. "Doug" in his column in the Jerome Copper News gets off an excellent paradox on the event, which we reproduce:
 Note - Congressman Hayden's
 bill changing the time for doing
 assessment work on mining claims
 from the calendar to the fiscal
 year has passed the house. It was
 amended to provide that the per
 iod within which annual work
 must be done shall commence at
 noon of July instead of midnight
 of June 30. When the measure
 was under consideration in the
 house Mir. Hayden spoke at some
 length on this amendment. The
 Verde Copper News had copy
 of the Congressional Record giv-
 ing his remarks in full, but un-
 fortunately it has been mislaid.
 However, they are of such im-
 portance that l shall reproduce
 them as well as l can from mem-
 ory.
 Mir. Speaker, the wisdom of begin ming the year in which assessment work must be done at noon instead of midnight will not be disputed by any one who is at all familiar with the To- cation of mining claims. There have been frequent disputes caused by two men jumping the same piece of ground in the middle of the night when it was too dark to see each other. In daylight they can begin to shoot on sight and at once settle all arguments, at the same time maintaining the proud traditions of the Grand Old West that is, alas! no more, and is growing even more so the longer an ungrateful constituency keeps the best sheriff Maricopa county ever had marooned back here among bunch of black republicans. (Sobs).
 Rights to mineral claims will hence forth be initiated when the sun is at meridian height, which is the beauty and glory of the day, instead of at that time of night
 "When dogs delight to bark and
 bite and roosters love to crow"
 No one knows how much the anti. uuated system of locating mining claims at night has delayed the min eral development of our country Many pantingly eager prospecto, has been forced to wait for the first faint blush of morning to begin loca- tion work. But under my bill, as amended, he can post his notices al 12:01, spit on his hands at 12:02 knock off for dinner at 12:03, talk about going back to work at 1:30, dig a ten-foot hole and measure it with his telescoping yard-stick before the 5 o'clock whistle warns him to change clothes and go to the movies.
 The hearts of our gentle old pros pectors need never again quail before the unknown terrors. of the night Midnight is a fearsoine hour. You are all, I am sure, familiar with the lines of the poet, John Greenleaf Shelley:
 I stood on the bridge at midnight
 With bottle of homemade brew, And four moons rose OCT the city
 Where there should have been but
 two.
 And then there is the elegaic sonnet sf that other noble bard, Henry Wads- worth Joe:
 Once upon a midnight dreary, as
 slumbered weak and weary,
 In the lee of seven beer kegs close
 beside the cellar door,
 Suddenly there came tapping, then
 none too gentle rapping,
 For cop had caught me mapping
 mapping on the barroom floor.
 But those nights are past, gentle men. (More sobs.) l feel that it will not be necessary to present any more facts in favor of daylight saving in the mining industry. On behalf of the old prospectors and old reprobates of Arizona, among whom it is my proud privilege to be numbered, I thank you. (Applause.)
 Give The Sun Your Job Printing.