PUBLICATION POSTAGE RATES ON PUBLICATIONS OF ARKANSAS Any of the following reports will be mailed to persons interested, so long as copies are available, on receipt of postage, which may be computed by the following table: AVAILABLE BASE MAPS OF ARKANSAS 1. U. S. Geological Survey Base Map, size 35x40 inches; scale 1:500,000, or 8 miles to the inch. Obtainable from U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. Done in black and white only. Price, 20c each, or in orders of over $3.00, price 12c each. 2. U. S. Geological Survey Base Map; size 16x181⁄2 inches; scale 1:1,000,000, of 16 miles to the inch. Obtainable from U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. Done in black and white. Price, 5c each; or in orders over $3.00 price 3c each. 3. Rand-McNally Vest Pocket Edition Map, size 28x21 inches; scale 13 miles to the inch. Price, 35c. Obtainable from Rand-McNally & Company, 536 South Clark Street, Chicago, Ill. 4. Rand-McNally Wall Map, size 40x28 inches. Price $3.50. Obtainable from Rand-McNally & Company, 536 South Clark Street, Chicago, Ill. 5. Arkansas State Base Map, in colors, by W. N. Wilkes, Commisioner of Mines, Manufactures and Agriculture; scale 104 miles to the inch; size 2834x26 inches. Obtainable from Bureau of Mines, Manufactures and Agriculture, State Capitol Building, Little Rock, Ark., upon request. 6. Geologic Map of Arkansas, by J. C. Branner. Size 104x12 inches; scale 24 miles to the inch; in colors. Obtainable from the Arkansas State Geological Survey, State Capitol Building, Little Rock, Ark., upon request. 7. Base map of Arkansas showing counties, railroads, etc., 402x48 inches, published by the National Map Company, Indianapolis, Ind. Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Blue Sky Law.. Organization and Duties, Section 7318. Employees to be Examined, Section 7319. Grade of Certificates, Section 7321. Forging Certificate, Misdemeanor, Section 7322.. Duplicate Certificate, Section 7323... Conservation of Oil and Gas, Statutory Provisions- Duties of Owners or Operators, Section 7299. Duty to Confine Gas, Section 7300.. Plugging Dry or Abandoned Well, Section 7301.. Right to Plug Wells of Others, Section 7302. Log of Wells, Duty to Keep, Section 7304.. Leaks, Notice to Owners, Section 7305... Permitting Flow of Gas, Penalty, Section 7306. Escaping Gas, Setting Fire to, Section 7308. Flambeau Lights, Prohibited, Section 7309. Gas Inspector, Office Created, Section 7310. Exemption from Taxation, Mining and Manufacturing Business. Summary of Arkansas Laws Affecting Mines and Mining MINING LANDS IN ARKANSAS The lands in Arkansas may be divided into three general classes according to the nature of the titles by which they are held. These titles need be considered here only in so far as they affect the discoverers of and investors in mining property. These classes with their subdivisions are as follows: III. Private Lands (including railroad grants). 1. Lands held in fee simple. 2. Lands of which the mineral rights have been sold outright. 3. Lands of which the mineral rights have been leased. I. Federal Lands The policy of the United States, as generally expressed by its mining laws, is to encourage the development of the mineral bodies upon the public domain. Recently, however, the tendency of the government has been to conserve coal, oil, and gas lands to insure an adequate supply of these minerals for the future. There are five methods by which private individuals or firms may work mines on Federal lands. These are: 5. Leases of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas lands. We shall now consider the different kinds of claims, with the rights and duties incident to each. 1. A lode claim and its location. A lode claim is one based upon the discovery of a "vein or lode of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits." It is important to determine whether the vein or deposit is "in place" between other rocks. The courts have held that there must usually be country rock upon both sides of the deposit of ore; otherwise it is a placer claim. The locator must be a citizen of the United States, or must have declared his intention of becoming one. It is not necessary that he be a |