Show Apex Law Should Should Be Thrown O Out Out- t I Senator Henderson of or Nevada evada has re recently recently recently re- re Introduced a bill In the senate that has hall reaching far ar effect In iii the minIng mining min mm- ing states state Its purpose Is to abolish tho law known as tho time apex law as lIS applied applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied to lode mining claims says the Silver Sliver State The Tho law as It now stands s permits the locator of or a vein eln to follo follow It on Its downward course into the earth even though the vein ma may diverge from the vertical and pass b beyond yond the lines lineR o of the claim of the locator If Senator H Headerson's Header Hender n eron's er- er sons son's bill becomes a n. law owners of or claims located boated after such a law goes into effect will be bo limited to their downward downward down down- ward working b by the claim lines The supporters of the apex law Jaw argue that It Is unjust that a prospector should spend his time and mone In money prospectIng prospecting prospect- prospect Ing for arid and finding a L vein only to learn L later latr that by Its ItA dip it passes parses beyond I his side lin line at which he lie must cease working The Tho argument would apply as am I well to man many other othel lines of Industry A stratum of placer gravel ravel may be many feet bc below V o the surface It Is n necessary for the tIme prospector for or such stratum to tc I spend his Ills time and money In prospecting and sinking for It but should he find ii It t he lie Is not Hot permitted to work ork beyond the time i lines of ot his placer claim If veins were all II regular In their for tor- mation matlon there would woul be more reason for foi or the apex law la labut but the they are not r regular lUlar In Tim some instances veins are several hun bun I dred li-ed feet teet wide If It It happens happen that adJoining ad- ad ad Joining claims owned by hy different loca tors tots have their common sideline within 1 I such broad vein interminable litigation 1 results Veins that are arc often in regu reu- lar lan form in the depths split Into several soy sev eral oral branches or forks as they approach I the surface thereby presenting as man many apparent apices Several locators ma inn may In n good faith locate claims upon such i I several branches believing that they have hare e each made mad a a discovery discover only to find that with depth such branches converge merge o nn and 1 become ono one vein eln and the tha of ot all hut but one of them must stand tand as monuments to their blasted hopes Irime t I The rime position of a vein Is not usually known to the locator at the time ho he makes his location for tor the reason that its apex is covered erd with overburden ann and sinking and drifting is necessary to disclose dIsclose dis dIs- close the position of or the tho vein Often such work reveals tn the fact tact that the vein passes out of or the tho claim across one side side- e- e line The Time 10 locator has made his location because of that vein It is the vein h he discovered and Is called his imis discovery ery vein eln It often happens that there Is still another vein within the same claim usually usually ally called the secondary vein It Is possible pos pos- Bible sible that the discovery vein ma may produce produce pro pro- duce no ore of value and millions be extracted ex ex- ex acted ti-acted from rom tho the secondary vein Such has often occurred The law of ot the apex Intended as a a. reward to the tho discoverer dis coverer in such Instance gives him bins millions not discovered cred b by him at tho the time ho made mado his l atlon Uon We Ye could coul with almost as aa much reason give to th the th- Inventor 0 of a carnet tack a. a pat patent nl right upon upon- a a. linotype machine In the light of or pre present ent knowle knowledge o o a e vela formation the Interminable con on on growing out of the tho apex la law an antho 4 tho the recollection that In many instances Instance violence and bloodshed have resulted l from contentions over o it we C should change from our present s system stem to that of vertical planes Such change chane will of course only affect lode mining claims located after the tho law abolishing the apex goes Into effect but if It as we 0 suspect a hundred claims will hereafter be located lo located lo- lo for every one that has been lo located located lo- lo thus far in the mining states those now located which give hive to their owners a vested property right in the veins oil on the thi dip are arc n |