Show NEW LAWS NEEDED secretary lane in his forthcoming annual report speaks of necessity for a new set of mining laws the old code he says is so elaborate and complicated that the best of brains cannot tell what the law is the truth seems to be that between mining engineers and mining lawyers the rules of the game have been refined into obscurity and if congress were to say to the president that he might select three men familiar with mining laws and miners difficulties to suggest a new mining code to congress it would I 1 believe be giving in earnest a new freedom to the mining industry 11 |