. Alaska and the Klondike. aims and for copper loca-tions vary somewhat from those applying to gold placerclaims. For instance, a quartz claim may be 1,500 by1,500 feet. The annual development work required islimited to $100 and after five years the claimant may pur-chase the land at $1 an acre. Placer claims are really onlyleased, the claimant having no title to the land and beinggranted possession only so long as he complies with theabove regulations. Copper locations may be 160 acres ina square block, but only one location may be taken withinan area of ten miles square, nor is the claimant
. Alaska and the Klondike. aims and for copper loca-tions vary somewhat from those applying to gold placerclaims. For instance, a quartz claim may be 1,500 by1,500 feet. The annual development work required islimited to $100 and after five years the claimant may pur-chase the land at $1 an acre. Placer claims are really onlyleased, the claimant having no title to the land and beinggranted possession only so long as he complies with theabove regulations. Copper locations may be 160 acres ina square block, but only one location may be taken withinan area of ten miles square, nor is the claimant to a copperlocation permitted to mine any other metals not mixed withcopper, and in no case may he mine free-milling gold orsilver on a copper permit. These restrictions guard against one man or a fewmonopolising the whole of a rich mining district. TheDominion laws are also liberal to aliens in that citizen-ship or first steps to naturalisation are not necessary inorder to take up a claim. On the Alaska side only citizens. t -Tt •f I i
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