Show ANNUAL assessment WORK the mining review wishes to call attention of claim owners and mining interests inheres ts in general to the fact that filings for exemption from annual assessment work made in 1917 do not cover the year 1918 the original origin al law states specifically that filings must be made for each of the years 1917 and 1918 A report has originated in ill some obscure part of the country and gained wide circulation that congress has amended the law so as to eliminate even the filing of exemption notices the present year it is impossible to trace this report to any authoritative source sou ace following many inquiries the mining review has sought legal advice on the subject and received assurance that the law has not been amended in any way by resolution of congress approved october 20 1917 claim owners are permitted to hold their claims during the years 1917 and 1918 provided they filed a declaration of intention to hold such claims before december 31 1917 and another similar declaration la before december 31 1918 only a fractional number of those who filed in 1917 have exemptions complied with the law so far in 1918 if you own claims and wish to hold them next annual year without doing the assessment work the present you must year file another declaration decla ratio 11 of intention A month remains in which you can do this but it is to your interest td attend to it at once and avoid possible slip ups lp |