Show UTAH CHAPTER resolutions the utah chapter of tile the american mining in congress in a resolution adopted at a recent meeting is among the first to go on record as favoring new mining laws to be discussed at the meeting to be held in washington next month mention of which is made elsewhere in this issue the resolutions for a copy of which we are en debated to secretary A G mackenzie of the local chapter is as follows WHEREAS experience has demonstrated conclusively that the present mining laws of the ilie united states as written interpreted and construed cause conflicts disputes litigation and loss do not afford sufficient and proper encouragement and protection to those who seek to develop the mineral resources of tile the nation make it needlessly difficult to obtain and hold titles to mineral lands and to obtain capital for their development and are inimical to the best interests of the industry in other ways and WHEREAS previous efforts to obtain tile the legislative action necessary to correct inadequacies and evils of the present laws have failed of result chiefly because the representatives of the mining industry have not presented its legislative needs with sufficient unanimity particularity and vigor to the congress of the united states and the executive and administrative officers of the national government and WHEREAS the subject has been thoroughly and intelligently investigated and studied by a capable committee of the mining and metallurgical society of america which has adopted the following program recommended by said committee I 1 the mining law should be revised not piecemeal but thoroughly so as to coordinate and harmonize its various provision II 11 A statute of limitations should lish a reasonable term of years beyond which placer patents shall be immune from attack on the ground of fraud III full privilege of appeal to some competent court of law should be provided for in all cases of contests between rival claimants or between a locator and the government ern ment IV notice of mining locations should be so recorded as to give the fullest possible public notice V the law of the apex should be abolished VI existing titles should be reaffirmed and fully recognized and no effort should be made to create retroactive legislation VII for the purpose of giving the fullest consideration to the needs of every branch of the mining industry and every section of the country it is desirable that a government commission be created by act of congress whose duty it shall be to investigate vesti gate by every proper means the ques eions and interests here referred to and andio ato make recommendations as a basis for the proposed mining law revision and WHEREAS the said mining and metallurgical society of america has called a general convention of representatives of the mining industry of the united states to meet at washington D C december 16 1915 there to consider and act on the said program and to devise ways and means most effectively to present the desired legislative isla tive action to the congress of the united states and WHEREAS it appears vitally important that all mining interests join in support of the movement hereinbefore set out be it therefore RESOLVED by tile the utah chapter of the american mining congress 1 that the movement to obtain revision of the united states mining laws be endorsed and the program prop proposed oed by the mining and metallurgical society of america be endorsed as lo 10 its general plan subject to such changes as may hereafter be proposed or favored by this chapter 2 that the executive committee of this chapter be directed and empowered to take such steps as may in its judgment seem necessary and proper to have tile the mining interests of utah represented at this convention 3 that the senators and representatives of utah in the congress of the united states the governor of utah and the commercial and industrial bodies of the state be urged to give their fullest support to the efforts made to obtain revision of the mining laws of the united states |