Show A PROPOSED NEW milind CODE I 1 prof NV S keyes the well knon knonk and celebrated mining expert read a most moat able paper before tile california state miners association at their last 0 october meeting lie he traces the bla tory of mining under the present I 1 lav ay of location lit in our country cites tho the fearful expense which it has provoked provo led in litigation and roaches reaches the blon that the mining code should be revised reil sed that square locations should bo be substituted for or the present lode locations Cat catona ions that the law of aps should be abolished and that each locator should own all within ti tho the boundaries of 0 his claim to the center of the earth further inasmuch as aa the country Is now so generally settled Bett led and inasmuch ns as district records have proved of so BO little avail ho he would have after reasonable time lime riven given for miners to perfect their titles tides under the present laws the bhole hole business done through the land omee tho the same in the location and proving up of agricultural It lands rids tile reasons lie advances tor for the proposed changes are most cogent ho he cites tho the fact that was expended on the comstock in litigation I 1 mostly with blackmailers in the first years after tho the discovery of that lode and hs be quotes judge beatty now chief justice of california who says that while he lived seventeen years la in novada nevada N with ith tile the beat opportunities for observing I 1 cannot at able moment recall a single instance in which the oeners 0 ners of really valuable mining ground have escaped expensive 1111 ill gation except by paying it a heavy black blackmail mall jud judge 0 O beatty bealby fultor fui ther said that tho the local records are am of no practical value prof keyes also cites 0 a multitude of eminent authorities in favor of making the chingos tt aich ho suggests ono eminent mining cOmmis commission slon after obtaining date data from a all 11 the mining states declares that the time has haa arrived till en Cong congress Tess should formulate tho the legislation to govern govera tho the ch changed conditions irions of an occupation alch ling hai passed from a frontier experiment into a valuable industry at the conclusion of hla his paper prof keyes offered a series of resolutions ors which ve e copy below and mo Q should be klad to get tile the opinion of miners and lawyers upon to us they seem altogether sensible that th it the alio ext finK meg of the iho united stairs touching min cral landa require radical amendment second lant tile law of oc tile iho apex antl and its hi corollary coroll corol larv irv the lh so an called ex cx tra lateral right should bo be and a return made to the lh common law right of nf surface boundaries loun daro ani and that the claim or unit of location be of soft clent eidth 1 0 of width on an the iho fido of tilt alln alp to permit of tion llon on the th ledge to a depth of 19 bisno or feel ahon tile iho anglo ot of the dip is not lt less that 15 loc dog third that tile local rules oi re ions ourbit to lo ho be fourth l that tho the congress of the states bo be petitioned or requested to lo A L co complete ro pleto mining code touching nil all mattehw ironi the iho ln in caption of teft claim location to t the he final thereof th crof ileth that the process of ap plying for and obtaining obtain I 1 nr patent shall bloum ar 1 ho a simplified and mado made less jess costly comly to 0 o tile iho dilner m I 1 ter sextil tart section 2323 of tho the Slat utra too to no callol locations ila ho restricted in its ampil cation to the iho deep pincers of dead rivera whose course and direction tire not shown upon tho the surface hy by renson reason of accumulation of drift moil BOH lava or other lock A tunnel for the ihfe disco discovery ve ry ot of such deposit or nr rIp lo onHa posits annit be i it til title afen df en fand d proof of such dill genco shall haftl ho be held hiltl to menn work upon tho the tunal for not less tha than rk four months in each your year with at loust two inn shirts of workmen workman the channel placer or dead river when encountered to 0 o he h to the iho extent of not more than lw iw feet up and 1510 down stream from tho the point of cupl intersection by tho tunnel seventh resolved that all the tl proc loul or useful metals earths artha rocks blonce cm bi bitumen natural gas hydro natural lit in a worl any substance found althin or beneath tho the surface of tile tho earth and having a commercial unitie should bo be subject to location loc under the section or sections of tile lw law to placers resolved that a any ny y 0 or partick who ho MAY desire to av avail alra hc him or 00 of tile tho provisions of tho the pres tnt ent laws lawa must apply for fee patent before january itt lw A failure to so BO apply shall const cona inno to a forfeiture fortel ture of oil such nuch c laim claim or claims and thore thereafter after tho the land shall bo be open to location as 03 other public mineral nil norol lands land provision should be mono mado so diat mineral land so BO abandoned may bo be located anti preferentially ily by a neighboring claim whether or possessing a square coatton lo lot atton or not it such puch land may be claimed 10 to lo catado within a reasonable time say cay I 1 nathl athin six rno nth its and no other location locution shall baOn bo allowed lit owed during said period unless such nuch boring claim owner acl all 4 in writing havo to declined to a tako take up burh ili abandoned ground nith resolved that a 9 corn attee con slating of members of this ihla convention bo be appointed toy by the president to formal formula tn in detal ilet ail tho the provin lons of it a bill in ali accord accenti ac coNtI with these resolutions to bo be plad placed in tho the hands of our anil and depre ves in cortices esith lah a request to ur a ha a cassago airo lo 10 a tho the next congress Conc resi |