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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1948)
Illinois Valley News. Thursday. May 13, 1948 New Mine Filing Regulations Explained Josephine county, with its ex tensive mining lands, is interested in the recent reopening to mining en try of O. and C. lands. Procedure under the new law for filing is explained in the following statem ent by Eugene K. Peterson, district forester, Med ford. It is as follows: The exploration and develop m ent of m ineral deposits on more than 2 M million acres of O. and C. lands in W estern Oregon is now permissible under the provision of Public Law 477 signed on April 8, 1948, by P resident Trum an, S ecretary of the Interior J A. K rug announced last Thursday. Since 1937 the O. and C. lands have been closed to new mineral entries because of a ruling by the A ssistant S ecretary of the In te rio r th a t the general U. S. min ing laws were in conflict with the act of A ugust 28, 1937, which provided th a t forest reserves on O. and C. lands be managed under Z a sustained yield program. How- e \e r, a recent check of the county clerk’s records revealed th at, de spite the ruling approxim ately 1150 new claims in Josephine county and 2070 in Jackson county were recorded during the 10 >2 year period. The new act of April 8 provides that any person having a mineral claim filed since August 28, 1937, or obtaining a m iner p atent “shall not acquire title, possessory or otherwise to the tim ber, now or hereafter growing thereon, which tim ber may be managed and dis posed of as is or may be provided by law, except that such person shall have the right to use so much of the tim ber thereon as may be necessary in the development and operation of his mine until such time as such tim ber is dis posed of by the United States. In addition, the new sta tu te re quires that all claims filed since 1937 on O. and C. lands be prop- Hundreds ARE NOW ENJOYING THE CONVENIENCE; THE COMFORT OF APPLIANCES USING Propane Gas You are coidially invited to call and see the new appliances . . . get all the facts . . . you are entitled to the safe, quick, modern service Propane makes possible. SEE THE NEW MAGIC CHEF RANGES — I T ’S ÌH S erly recorded in the V. S. district land office at either Roseburg or Lakeview. Persons filing new claims between 1937 and April 8, 1948, are allowed until A ugust 5 of this year to validate th eir dis covery by recording it at the land office Notice of claims located on Try the Classified Ads in The or a fte r April 8, 1948 m ust be News. They pay dividends. filed in the district land office within 60 days a fte r the location is made. Also, the $100 yearly as sessment work on each claim must be filed in the district land office each year not la ter th an Sep tem ber 30, beginning with the cu rren t fiscal year. Otherwise, the general U. S. mining laws apply. However, m in ers are reminded th a t power sites are still reserved from entry. Claims must be correctly su r veyed and described if they are considered legal. Also, to be valid a claim must have valuable ore in sufficient concentration to ju stify a prudent person to expend his time and money in the develop ment of the claim with the ex pectation of a reasonable profit therefrom . Persons desiring homesites should make arrangem ents with the Bureau of I^ n d M anagement office in Medford fo r a special use lease. Mineral claims entitle the claim ant to deposits of m inerals on the claim area but do not p er mit him exclusive use of the su r REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR face. The recordation in some federal agency of mining claims on the public domain long has been re To the National Convention garded as a m ajor need in the Served Four Sessions in Oregon satisfactory adm inistration of an Legislature. Speaker of House in adequate national conservation 1943. Veteran of last war. Favors liberal, constructive party platform program , but prior to the en act and nomination of Oregon's favored ment of the now sta tu te , Public candidate. Law 477, no au th o rity existed for Pd. Adv. McAllister for Delegate such a system. As a consequence, Committee. Herb Grey, Chairman thousands of claims to mineral deposits on the public lands are recorded only in county recording offices and the Federal govern m ent norm ally has no knowledge of exploration or developm ent of the m ineral deposits on its lands until actual production results in an application for a p aten t to the land under mining laws dating back to 1866. 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