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Show r g BONDING MINES. There is considerable diversity of opinion among mine owners as. to the time thev should allow on I " mine londs, but there is a tendency tende-ncy to give less time than formerly, former-ly, owing to the objection of tying up the property to people who may, after all, do nofhing with it. This objection to long time depends, depe-nds, however, on the individuals, I who bond. If they only tic up the claim hoping to make a commission commissi-on on a sale, and then fail to dispose dis-pose of it, the shorter time given them tho better, though they always al-ways want six month or a year in which to carry on their negotiations. negotiat-ions. When a claim is, however, bonded to a company, who are to develop it and become the possible purchasers themselves in the event of success, thev need considerable to prov tho worth of the property. A j)rovision enforcing "continuous work" is a good remedy in this case, since if they stop, the claim reverts to the original owner without with-out the loss of too much. Those who intend negotiating "deals" complain that sixty or ninety days time is too short to carry one through, while the mine owners do not like to tie up their property too long.' Long and easy term bonds of course give plenty of time for investigation and examination, ex-amination, but aro not always fair to the original owners. It is not uuu3ual to giv. one, two or three years time or lease, where companies com-panies oblige themselves to develop deve-lop the claim during the period. But people who bond only to sell should not he given any such time. In fact, six months, at furthest, is plenty of time for such an operation, opera-tion, and unless it is to be abroad, ninety days should suffice in most instances. ' Hacking a mine about from one . to another does it no good, and jt is; for this reason many., large, owners decline to bond at all, though they may sell at a stipulated price agreed upon. |