Show CLAIMS FOR FOB RELOCATION Effect of the Recent Ruling of the theLand theLand theLand Land Office Commenting on the recent recent ruling promulgated from the land office at Washington the Denver Mining finin Re porter says sa 4 It is now stated by au that the recent requisition of the federal land office for a list of all aU applications for mining ng patents made prior to Jan 1 I 1899 1292 on which the claims have not been regularly prose is for the purpose of cancella tion This Thia action of the department will affect a radical change in the na ture tune of property holding throughout all the mining regions of the country Its purpose is to nullify n the ownership of such claims and clear the records rec roo of their cumbrous accumulation of dead matter Many thousands th of mining minin claims will thug thu revert to the govern government government ment subject su to relocation The e A t of the action will no doubt be dam damaging d u aging to the interests of many people but beyond the exceptional instances I of individual loss It will work a benefi beneficial b nufi cial change to every established mining camp in the country One of the great greatest greatest greatest est obstacles to the progress of the best mining m ning districts In Colorado as elsewhere has been domination n of the patent applied for foJ locator of one or many claims who by bulldozing and all L manner of cunning connivance has been enabled to withstand the rights of oth others others othera ers era upon his domain of forbidden ground Now the new locator will no nc longer have haTe reason to fear that after he has developed his claim into the prospect of a paying pa ing mine he will be t tightened frightened away or forced into int litigation litigation tion by the unexpected proof of prior r rights in the form of a pending application application cation for patent Such documents in it inthe inthe I Ithe the future will be proof that the quon quondam quondam dam owner is the owner of no right I upon the ground |