Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-12-23
PROSPtCIuR, MINING EN- CINEER AND PROPOSED
 NEW MINING ACT
(Continued From Page 8

his dismissal would tend to create a caved stope between the top and bot tom levels of mining endeavor. So, consciously or sub-consciously, not a few have advocated the licensing of engineers as a corrective measure to protect their particular qualifications from counterfeit and abuse. So far all plans proposed have met with weighty opposition and have been voted down, while the invocations of the disappointed have ascended to the throne of Pete for guidance in this unsolved dilemma.
 Economic Fitness of Things
 Every calling and profession has it's limitations. Some are inherent and others imposed by terms of employ ment or habits of thought and action. Engineers have been better in mathe- matics than economies, and not many have gone beyond the serious yet silly jangle over vertical lines and extra lateral rights, to question the basic principles underlying the validity of any law, mining or otherwise. Too much figuring and not enough think ing may be the trouble-yet, figures are good in their place. The reason that figures cannot lie is because they cannot talk; and the same reason pre- vents them from telling the truth. They are dead, inaminate things. Those who depend on being capable of figuring the angles of right and wrong are disconsolate in that they always fail. To succeed they must consult the sub-conscious Monitor for reasons and formula superior to the trigonometric functions.
 A globe of cast-iron or lead is an orbicular mass of iron or lead throughout. The peel of an orange or the shell of cocoanut are the out CT spheres enclosing the meats within, which are composed of various prop critics. The earth is composed of number of elements combined and ar ranged in shells or spheres three of which limit and control existence, and with which we have to deal in mining as in other vacations. These are the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and the Atmosphere. We discern land to be the controlling sphere, since water drains to the sea and the air is dis placed and floats above; and that the range and distribution of life everywhere is dependent upon land. There is Order and Method everv- where. The fishes swim down in the seas and the birds fly above in the air; land animals move about between both in their appointed elements.
 Thus, in the same manner, organiz- ed society diversifies it's workers into numerous callings, trades and profes- sions which are reduceable into four grand divisions. These are, from top to bottom: aeronauts, birdmen; al- luvlals, farmers; nauticals, seamen; sub-soil or lithics, delivers and miners. Now, there are aviation laws for bird men; navigation laws for sailors: a hopeless tumble of laws for alluvial landsmen, and no distinctive laws for the sub-soil delvers-nothing to seg- gregate or distinguish them from the windy, watery, dusty world of others. Therefore the suh-soil workers have a grievance and right to demand the passage of mining laws which will distinguish them, and their realm of work, from all the others.
 The policy and plan of separating sub-soil from surface rights is not new. It was adopted in Spain 300 years ago; in France and Italy 100 years ago; in all of the Spanish-Amer- ican republics from their beginnings and in Australia. The old English common law classed all mines as Grown lands," from which our term royalty" instead of "mine rent" is derived. Mining lands are not "pat- ented" or deed in other countries they are granted. In his "Mines of the World" J. H. Curle, an eminent English authority, estimates the av- craze life of mines to be eleven years as statisticians estimate the life of a generation at 35 years.
 Now, alluvial land is restored from year to year, and can be cropped for generations, as has the Nile valley. Mining is transitory; even some big mines are dug out and closed in a few years time. Why, then, compel the sub-soiler to patent, at great ex- pense, land that must shortly become valueless for his use, and which may interfere and conflict with surface soil right? The sub-soiler needs no patent, but requires Federal Mining Grant covering the life of his mine, or say, for a generation or two. In any event, when his mine is dug out it has no value ,and can not be sold, and he must go in search of another.
 However, at no time should the del. yer become an alluvial (duty) land speculator. It is no part of under