Show QUIETUS ON CAPITAL Views of Assistant Secretary Pierce on Proposed Mining Laws Washington April 8 A quietus on cap ital in Alaska would result front Irom pro proposed proposed proposed posed legislation requiring that placer mining claims there be bo located only by b the locator locater in person according to Assistant Secretary of the Interior Pierce who tes tee testified testified tilled before the House committee on territories today Mr Pierce made the declaration that the present laws were sufficient saying the miners of Alaska could be trusted to tomake tomake make rules among themselves as to minor minOt matters without congressional Interference Interference ence once He Ho said sald no objection however to reducing tho the size of association claims from 10 to 40 acres would be h made I Mr Pierce said the proposed prior claim restriction would mean calling upon cap i to go to Alaska to stake their claims and that they the would not do that Mr Pierce added that shoestring string claims a few feet wide and miles long would result from the proposed authority for staking claims regardless of conformity to the rectangular system of public lands surveys ys |