UNITED STATES MINING LAWS

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

MAKING A STUDY OF PROBLEMS IN CONNECTION

WITH THE PUBLIC LANDS OF THE

UNITED STATES

PURSUANT TO

H. Res. 66

(1st Sess., 81st Cong.)

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OCTOBER 17 AND 18, 1949

Serial No. 24

Printed for the use of the Committee on Public Lands

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CONTENTS

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Proposed revision of the United States mining laws.

Extract from Hoover Commission report re mineral resources.

Location and use of mining claims for purposes other than mining---

Mining claim problem in the national forests of California---

12

Requirements of mining laws for patenting of lode and placer claims and

suggestions for simplification of the patenting process--

Problem on extralateral rights under mining laws--

15

Compilation of existing mining laws taken from United States statutes--- 22

National forest laws approved by President Theodore Roosevelt --

Taylor Grazing Act of June 28, 1934.

34

Authorizing land exchanges---

36

Retention of mineral rights by private owners.

37

Suspension annual assessment work--

37

Department Manual of Mining laws---

39

Information re mining claims on public domain-

63

Sample mining location notice----

66

Sample mine proof of labor (unpatented mining claim) ---

68

Sample notice of intention to hold unpatented mining claim.

69

Interior letter re annual grazing revenue-

70

Forest Service letter re annual grazing revenue--

70

Hearings held in Spokane on revision of United States mining laws.

73

Statements of -

Merle L. Drake, Idaho Wool Growers Association -

81

G. E. Stanfield, representative of the livestock industry---

84

T. B. Murray, director, Idaho Fish and Game Department-

87

Mert Folts, Izaak Walton League of America ---

90

Don Clarke, director of game, State of Washington.-

93

R. U. Harmon, Recreation and Lands Division, United States Forest

Service --

94

K. Wolfe, Recreation and Lands Division, United States Forest Sery-

ice

100

E. Morgan Pryse, regional director, Bureau of Indian Affairs_-

102

Edward Woozley, State land commissioner, Idaho--

104

J. W. DeSouza, State highway commission, Oregon.

Therrett Towles, attorney, Spokane, Wash--

108

Donald C. Callahan, Callahan Consolidated Mining Co..

110

P. Evan Oscarson, Northwest Mining Association ---

124

A. H. Shoemaker, president, Idaho Mining Association..

125

Roger McConnell, chief geologist, Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining Co-- · 126

Harry Marsh, secretary, Idaho Mining Association---

127

Frauk S. Sever, attorney, Oregon and California land-grant counties

of Oregon.-

141

Report of the Bureau of Land Management on hearings in Spokane--- 230

Declaration of policy, Northwest Mining Association-

232

Declaration of policy, Idaho Mining Association---

Declaration of policy, Western Division, American Mining Congress-

236

Deep discoveries in the Coeur d'Alene mining district of Idaho (by Robert

E. Soronson)

245

Record of depth and dividends paid, Coeur d'Alene mining district of

Idaho

254

Record of pioneer mining man, August Paulsen, Coeur d'Alene mining dis-

trict of Idaho----

251

Record of a pioneer mining man, Marcus Daly of Montana

236

Tribute to a one-armed prospector, T. B. ("Uncle Tommy") McWilliams--

257

Mine roads bill and Ickes episode---

205

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