QUOTE (rokonrandy @ Apr 4 2009, 09:39 AM)
this post is about the mining law as far as I can tell. OK first Galice Consolidated Mining Company recieved title in 1871 for 800 acres in Township 34 and 35 , about a mile west of the Galice Post office under the 1866 mining law, on 12 cent a yard gravel with gold values of 19.00 dallars to 19.35 per oz of gold. The the Grays property on Lower grave creek was deaded in the 1880 or so and have the same rights. The deed may have discribed the rights as all rights enjoined by the granter was transfered to the grantee. As things come along the mining law was changed and the mineral estates were taken by a land managment act, 1955 seem to come to mind I was President of a member group of the American mining congress, every year the mining law was under attack, The small miner exemption u enjoy now was part of the efforts to maintain some semblence of the mining law, after the recent events and failure to respond in a prudent manor the issue of the ego trip law suits comes up and who will pay for them. Bottom line is simple America is over get use to it. This really hard for me to take I always believed that good Americans had a moral responsibilty to America and our children and our fellow American to resist over bearing govnment were ever we encountered it. Easy to be a cheeze dick if u have never sacraficed for your country. How will the guys in Iraq feel when they get home and find that there sacrfices were for nothing when we at home gave away there country. I remeber Viet Nam like it was yesterday. We will see if there are any good American left. Things are lookin bad for this activity. R spelling sucked on this
rokonrandy, your going to have to show how the 1955 Surface Resources Act changed the Act of 1866, because by its terms it didn't do any such thing.
And, by the way, when was it the mineral estate wasn't under attack that any one could take a break from defending it?