Salt Lake Herald | 1899-01-21 | Page 8 | American Miners Protest

AMERICAN MINERS PROTEST Want the British Columbia Mining Law Modified Seattle Wash Jan 20The recent passage of an act by the provincial legislature of British Columbia prohibiting pro-hibiting aliens from securing placer mining claims in that province has called forth many protests from Americans Amer-icans directly interested in the development develop-ment of the Lake Atlin mining district and an effort is now being made to secure a modification of the law At a meeting of citizens of Alaska in this city today it was resolved to send the following telegram to Governor Brady of Alaska who is now in Washington Wash-ington Two hundred citizens of Alaska in convention assembled here today request re-quest that you urge President McKinley Mc-Kinley and the joint high commission to use their Influence to have the British Brit-ish Columbia alien exclusion act modified modi-fied that a Pacific coast man be appointed ap-pointed to succeed the late Hon Nelson Nel-son Dingley on the joint high commissions com-missions and that said commission hold sessions on the Pacific coast before be-fore concluding its labors