Bingham Bulletin | 1920-01-07 | Page 7 | Approval Given Mining Act

fpfROVAL GIVEN MINING ACT Measure Extending Time Limit Signed by President. Washington. The bill extending for six months the time in which 10"0 assessment work on mining claims can he done was signed December 31 by President Wilson. Under the old law the holders of mining claims would have been required re-quired to complete $100 worth of work on their claims by midnight December De-cember 81. The time Is now extended, extend-ed, but holders of claims must file notices with county recorders, sotting forth that they claim exemption under un-der the bill, which became effective with the president's signature. Hundreds of mining claims In the west are affected and the holders had flooded senntors and representatives from that section with telegrams inquiring in-quiring what action was to be taken on the measure.