Show THE CLAIM JUMPER the season of the year is rapidly preaching aching when the an ap 1 pro pestiferous claim jum will begin to get in his work claim jumping and relocation location re can hardly be classed in the same cat agory although i many instances the terms term sare are almost syn on amous the claim jumper as a type noses around and on the slightest pretext win will make a location upon a claim whish it is the desire of the owner to maintain title to it is often the c case ase that the claim is really open to location because of a failure to comply in every little particular with the law regular re gulat ing the location and work to be be performed in the holding of the same but the ju jumper raper paying no regard to the amount of work performed V e r or the evident good faith of the locator is willing to cloud his title to put him to a great deal of expense and trouble and has no hesitancy in putting up his monuments and corner stakes and posting his notice upon ground to which he has no do moral right even if the law gives him a slight I 1 loophole loop hole in which to slip in such a man is is a menace to the mining industry he is to a certain extent a protected blackmailer andee anddie should be driven out of every mining camp peaceably if possible by force if necessary the man who holds down a claim year after year by relocation location re is a hindrance to the growth and prosperity of any camp or district he will not work himself neither will he let others if he be can help it he will not make a showing 0 of what he has got and he asks the price of a mine for an undeveloped prospect the first of every year finds him busily engaged eno 1 aa I 1 ed in putting up new location ti L on notices upon claims which he has neither the inclination or intention to develop he is is a drawback to the district and is a cousin if not a brother of the claim jumper the mining review is pleased to note that in certain portions of the west action is already being taken to thwart the claim jumper in beaver county this state an all organization has been formed headed hy by leading mining men and claim holders to deal with this class of gentry if any are caught in the act of jumping another mans I 1 claim he will be politely requested to pull I 1 down his stakes monuments and notices it if he be refuses a sort of Vig vigilance dance committee will probably wait upon him and run him out of camp possibly with a coat of tar and feathers upon his back AtTo ah nevada a similar organization 0 has been perfected 1 4 and nd it is the determined intention of the best men inen in this bonanza camp to protect the man who has located vacant government ground in 11 pod good faith if more such organizations were formed forme d a new impetus would be given the great mio inin ing industry of the west and more confidence would be felt in mining ventures and enterprises the the mining districts of this intermor inte inter mOu 00 etain region must be purged of the claim jumper bidpy and constant relocation of mining property prop should not be tolerated they must go 90 |