Excerpt from Mining and Scientific Press, Vol. 96: January to June, 1908

IN A postscript appended to our last issue, we notified our prospector friends. That the bill for remit ting the assessment work due on mining claims had not passed the Congress of the United States. It was approved by the Senate, but failed to reach the House of Representatives before adjournment for the holidays. It is stated that the Commissioner of the Land Office is opposed to the bill, and it is doubtful whether it will be passed when the Congress meets again during January. This failure to remove the obligation to perform $100 worth of work on each location will go hard on mining companies controlling a large number of claims on which stock has been issued and financial operations have been based, but it will hurt very few genuine prospectors.

WE learn from a friend that at Manhattan, Nevada, they read only Debs' Appeal to Reason and the San Francisco Examiner. Note the association.

Do they give club rates for these two highly intellectual, refined, patriotic, and noble examples of modern liter ature? \ve are reminded of the fact that at a Denver meeting of sympathisers with Haywood, Moyer, and Pettibone, Mr. Eugene V. Debs was introduced by the chairman thus: I, who expect to be in jail, intro duce to you a man who has been in jail, who will speak to you in behalf of a man who is now in jail. This introduction needs editing; it ought to read: I, who expect to be in jail introduce to you, who ought to be in jail, a man, etc. To return to Manhattan, if Debs and Hearst are the literary purveyors to that mining camp, we do not wonder that its boom has busted. The people of Manhattan had better improve their reading by get ting Kemp on 'ore Deposits' and Richards on 'ore Dressing.'

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