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Show 0E11S GHAflGt Hi V LAWS ' Delegate Wickersham ' Draws Graphic Picture in Pica for a Revision. Washington, Feb. 24. A graphic picture of Alaska, with her millions In gold lying hidden beneath hundreds hun-dreds of feet of frozen earth, was drawn by Pelgnte .Tamss Wicker-thorn Wicker-thorn today In a statement before tho houee comrni'tro on territories, in fupport of n bill for the revision of the Alaska mining laws. H told of the luck of the pioneer prospector and of his pathetic failures; fail-ures; the rrudojicss and inadequacy of the mining laws and of resort to pistol and lynch law. "There is not a foot of the mining territory, said WlcXcrsham, "hut that is now open to litigation. Our claim to every aero of mining ground then? Is held by a rope of sand. "Alaska has always paid her way. She never ha aked anything of I'ncle Sam. IRt year she sent to him $;n,nOO,ooo In virgin gold and her trade with the United States was worth jr.n.nrift.noo Describing the physical features of Alaskan mining, Mr." Wickersham told how the miners frequently, single handed and alone. In the midst of an unexplored wilderness, far from civil-ization, civil-ization, dug with pick and shovel through 30 feet of frozen earth to bedrock In search of gold. In regard to 1ho bills introduced yesterday by Senator Beverldge of Indiana, for tho conservation of the Ala-kan country lands, P.alllnger said that the senators suggestions were not new, but were In line with recommendations rec-ommendations previously made hy the interior department. |