Report of the Select Committee on the Copper Mines on the North Side of Lake Superior (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Report of the Select Committee on the Copper Mines on the North Side of Lake SuperiorIt is necessary, however, for the Crown Land Commissioner to have a plan, in order that he may know the true position of the location, otherwise he might grant the same mineral ground to two or more different parties at once. If the expense were borne by the Crown Lands Department, the survey of many of these isolated locations at a distance from one' an other might become a great public burden, for the expense of surveying each separately would be more than the price to be obtained for the land, and as the Department could not choose for whom they would survey, but have to act for all alike, they might be subjected to the ne cessity of surveying many worthless localities for unskilful explorers. The Crown Land De partment would scarcely be justified in making a survey, unless of some considerable block of mineral land, where in addition to the chance of minerals of value, there was also some eu couragement for agricultural settlement, and this, it appears to me is the plan the Crown Land Commissioner is pursuing.There may, however, be minerals of great value in positions, which, from their isolation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.