Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . right to THE CENTURYS PROGRESS IN MINES AND MINING 585 a certain length of it, and it was this right which was recognized by Con-gress, and became the basis of the law of 1866. So far our story has been of progress, but what shall we say of the actionof Congress, which, in 1872, abrogated this la
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . right to THE CENTURYS PROGRESS IN MINES AND MINING 585 a certain length of it, and it was this right which was recognized by Con-gress, and became the basis of the law of 1866. So far our story has been of progress, but what shall we say of the actionof Congress, which, in 1872, abrogated this law and substituted for it theprolific breeder of litigation called the law of the apex ? To quote Dr. Bay-mond : The leading characteristic differs from all previous mining laws ofthis or any other country. The old right of discovery, which was the basisof the miners title down to 1872, has dwindled under the present law to anominal importance. It is true that the discovery of the lode within theclaim is made a prerequisite to location. But the right to follow the lode indepth beyond the side lines of the claim depends no longer upon having dis-covered it, but on having included its top, or apex, in the surface the miner be so fortunate as to have a vein which outcrops plainly on. THE POWER PLANT AT JEROME PARK, N. Y. (Ingersoll-Sergeant Duplex Corliss Condensing Air Compressor.) the surface, he may stake out the ground without difficulty, so that the veincrosses the end lines. But if his vein does not appear on the surface, and hefails to guess its direction correctly, and finds, on developing, that it doesnot cross the end lines of his claim, he is suddenly cut off from all extra-lateral rights. Or should he, in laying out his lines along the rough, precipi-tous mountain-side, fail to make his end lines parallel, he again finds hisrights limited. Nor has this law been made clearer by court decisions, butrather it has been complicated. Certainly this is a peculiar
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