Show 0 VALIDATES PHOSPHATE LOCATIONS washington jan 4 the house today passed the bill previously passed by the senate validating locations of deposits or phosphate rock heretofore made in good faith under the placer laws the passage of this bill will enable the interior department to issue patents to valuable phosphate claims in northern utah and southern idaho idalgo entered under the placer mining laws which subsequent to ito entry were held eligible to entry only under the lode laws previous to december 12 1912 when the department made a definite decision that phosphate entries could be made only under lode laws many entries were made in good faith under placer mining laws and these entries will be validated provided the required assessment work on them has been annually performed |