Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1921-12-21
STANDS PAT ON MINING BILL

That the United States Bureau OF Mines. least
Director H. Foster Balm has wavcrcd in support
r. r. 1885, the socalled Arentz bill and determined that
the mining laws OF the country shall be changed spite
the almost universal protest of mine operators and pros
pecors OF the West is evidenced by letter which Dir Balm
has addressed to the editor OF the Mining Scientific Press
copy OF which he has this paper.
DR.. Balm reminds i'll this instance OF what the irish
is said to have said about the bull that tried butt
the locomotive of the track: Il admire your but
damn your Judgement The eminent gentleman is in
danger OF submcrsing himself in qucksand of suspicion
OF his motives that his long experience as newspaper
writer should have taught him avoid He apparently
neither sees nor hccds the danger sign One thing
ainthat if this bill in anything like its present form
comes the law Of the land the Bureau Mines will lose
rrestage it may have in the West
In spite of DIR. Bains speoous plea for revision the
mining laws governing the location OF and acquiring title to
mineral lands the public domain there is widespread de
mand from the interests concerned for such revision
On the contrary everybody out west is against it. Nor is
there justice IN changing the laws governing disco
and Development applied to the precious and base met
ais because powerful capitalists desire legally grab BIG
porhyry copper deposits hold immense OF sac oil
lands until they are good and ready utilize them
The reason that Congressman \rentz and other members
of Congress have been flooded with letters protest ain
this ubiquitous is that both prospector who
discovers mineral veins. and the mine operator capitalist
who develops them realizes the bill as proposed will
kill prospecting It is safe to say that the group OF dis
tngu'shed engineers who drew the bill did
OSI)GctOr when 1t framed tins TO him
the discovery OF every mine big little known to his orv
lie has gone forth into the blazing the desert the
snow-covered reaches OF the north his lonely ourevs
Quite recently published OF three men who un
covered rich vein OF silver Royston which
their having quit work DAYS to provide shelter
Tor themselves after sleeping outdoors during nppnu
weather while they mined few OF high grade Their
Srub-stake $50. supplied BY "heathen chinese"
How many OF the great mining engineers who this
bill ever experienced suc, hardshps: And these men OF
ten have endured hunger thirst and cold their eternal
quest OF gold and silver Senator Oddie OF Nevada went
through the same lardslips when with lin" Butler and
Wise Brousher. he worked MINDLESS bleak Novem
Der days twentyonc ago with scantv ratons wrang
ling wood for fuel after the days work done The
pluck OF these three the world the matchless
silver camp OF Tonopah made for the humble
as well as the mighty and reawakened the mining
Ionopah has added hundred and twenty million dollars
In gold and silver the wealth OF the world Goldied its off
spring. hundred million more and a more of new
districts have been discovered deveoped bv men who
were drawn to Nevada by the riches the Mzpah To-
nopah. Are to stand idly by allow bunch OF hand
picked corporationbred mining engineers backed BY big
interests kill all this