Show SCRAMBLED SCRAMBLED SCRAPS II ii By Sy Howell Rowell By the great number of mining g claims recorded in some names or more or-more more In some cases s they locators might be regarded illS as as oWners owners of rather vast estates In iii mineral lands but when much of the land nd so located and claimed claim ed is found to mineral min oral eral or tang tangible ble indications Indications' of 1 it t and the claims do donot not meet the Saw law then there arises some doubt as to the tile claimants claimant's po position po of affluence h Inthe the mining world It might seem betterto to have on only such y such an area an an of land Jand landas as one might hope to hold hold- and develop systematically than to propose the holding of vast numbers num bers of of bogus bogus' locations I This TJ b p present situation is hr remindful re re mindful where on payday astone a astone astone stone quarry worker who was al also aLso oM aL so quite a poker player applied for time off move to-move to different residence and for several days deferred deterred his return to to wO work k on the gounds Bounds that moving 56 pieces took times time Finally a FInay the foreman said Hell Jack Jaek what 56 pieces have you got to move that takes so long tong You haven't got that m much furniture Or if it you ha have e what at a are are e the he pieces Well WeB I I got a deck d ok of of cards and two pairs of of socks says Jack lack And that's about the way of it with some of the prodigiously extensive groups of mining ning claims |