Show ANNUAL assessments ON MINING CLAIMS notwithstanding all the explanations that have been made concerning the performance of annual assessment work on oil mining claims there is apparently a good many miners who do not yet understand the situation the mining alining review has recently been receiving letters in which the writers asked to have the matter again explained to them so here goes just about a year ago now a resolution was adopted in congress and signed iby by the president which chic h extended the time for doing the annual assessment for 1920 six six months or to the first day of july 1921 following that action by congress early in august last an amendment ai to the mining lining li laws which permanently changed the annual assessment period year was passed pa ased and became a law so that beginning six months month S ago the assessment period began with july and ends june next the six months extension relief bill only applied to 1920 assessments all claim owners have until the end of june 1922 in which to do their 1921 22 annual labor this permanent perm ament change in the law was made so that claim winter owners would not be compelled to get out in ill the dead of to perform 1 belated assessment work and protect their claims the fiscal year now ends june all the time until or again changed by law |