The Atlin Claim
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-07
issued: 1903-04-18
description: The Atlin Claim was published in Atlin, a remote community located in northwestern British Columbia, close to the Yukon border. The Claim was published by the Atlin Claim Publishing Company, and ran from April 1899 to April 1908. Although a number of different editors worked on the Claim, the two longest-serving editors were Alfred C. Hirschfield and William Pollard Grant.
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note: rf: , rT^^r^? ��� VOL. 8.r .ATLIN/B. C- - \ & S I SATURDAY, - APRIL /i8,> 1003 NO. 196. A'BUGBEAR. Atlin Miners ' Think / They Are' Deceived. Bad Break Found in,, tho proposed Placer Amendments���' 1* A Timely ^Explanation. " - sf ' I, -*1 * ' - " For the information of many of our readers, we herewith reproduce a section, of the'proposed, amendments to the Placei "Act now in the hands of,the Executive , Committee of life "B-.C^ Mining 'Asspciation for final revision, which has caused righteous indignation here among men who 'have,1 heard it "read. ^.^.It^ must,* however;* be ' borne , in 'c-xnund by those who were, present at recent*, public meetings, both -in' Atlin and Discovery, that "the.proposed amendments read ,at these meetings, were not the* "'finished article " but a rough draft,' and that ,^ before final acceptance and/recom- , niendation to the Legislature, all -���* -'' - ' * * i i, ambiguity would be corrected, aiid ~a set of amendments���approved by the -representative miners1 of the ,- Province'-1^ as 1 nearly > perfect as could be franied/wbuld be presented to "the Government for action. " 1 The particular section "referred 1 to is'Section 18, of " Part VII, of - the propdsed changes, aud'reads as follows ��� "Placer Claims Containing Lodes ' ���Where a Free Miner or association of free miners or corporation is in possession of a placer mining claim" and also a vein or lode enclosed withitf the boundaries thereof, application shall be made" for a Crown grant for the placer claim with the statement that it includes - such vein or lode, aud in such case ltlie Crown grant shall issue, for the placer claim, 'subject,to the provisions of. this Act, including such vein or lode, upon payment of $10 per acre for such vein or lode claim and roo feet of surface on each side the'reof, the remainder of the placer claim ' or any placer claim not embracing any vein or lode claim shall be paid for at the rate of $5 per acre, together with all costs of proceedings,…
note: Print Run: 1899-1908 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Atlin (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0169133
language: English
lat: 59.566667
long: -133.7
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Atlin, B.C. : Atlin Claim Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text