The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-10-14

who with the aid of a fiivver rushes
from one mining district to another.
locating from dozen to forty claims
in each and then going back home
and comfortably sitting down to
await the development of something
by the prospector on adjoining
ground, or someone comes along who
is willing to take a chance and gives
him a piece of easy money, often he
has shut one the bona tide prospec-
tors, who might have developed
something, my his claim grabbing of
ground on which he never intended
to expend any labor or money. 1t
would also compel a claim holder
to do his location WORK and record
HRS claim before deciding 1T which
would tend to develop the district
and in a measure prevent fraudu-
lent location being made for specula-
tive purposes.
8. Any one acting as agent in
the location of mining claims shall
not be allowed to locate more than
one claim for each individual so rep
resented in any one prescribed min
ing district, and such act shall be
by proper power of attorney, and
such instrument shall be recorded
with the county recorder OF the
county in which the said mining dis
trict is situated prior to date OF
location.
This would prove a bar to the op'
Grafton of the man who sits back II
his easy chair with bunch Of hot
stove chair-warmers on his star
whom he rushes out every time {
| new strike is announced to locate al
the available TERRITORY, often tyins
| up completely meritorous distric
until interest in it has died dowI
and the real prospector has to mov'
on because he cannot interest thu
necessary capital.
4. Failure to complete valid loca
ton upon mining claim within
ninety days; or to do the required
| annual assessment work upon min
ling claim within the fiscal year tn
same shall be forfeited to the publ
: domain and open for location, TIL
4 holder or holders of said claims be
ing barred from relocating said CLAIM
or claims for period of one year
provided, that the relocation of salt
claims by another and decided bacl
to the original holder or holder
within period of one year shall con
stitute prima facie evidence Of col
fusion upon the part of the person.
and such persons shall upon convic
ton be punished as provided by law
further provided, that this shall no
abridge the right to perform the an
nual assessment work upon any on
claim for the entire group, not ex
ceeding four contiguous claims.
This is one Of the hardest thing
Of the mining law to contend with
and the most pernicious. 1t Is her
that the rights of the public an,
community comes in and must b
protected. The government pre-
scribed as to what shall be done I
acquire valid title to mining claim
1t specifies the amount of work re
uired or money to be expended t
hold claim. 1t was never intende
= that year after year man coul
= hold title to mineral ground b
crawling out of his cabin the first 0
every year and posting up a ney
4 notice.. He was given rights an
PRIVILEGES on the public domain un
der the stipulation that he woul
make an endeavor to develop tn
orebodies presumed to be thereon
Communities have been killed an
meritorious districts that might b
employing hundreds of miners. re
main dormant through claim holder
through relocation keeping out pros
rectors and investors alike by thi
J method We have seen hundreds q