Mr. STEWART. I will simply say in regard to that letter that it is a very good argument against Julian’s bill in the HoRep, which is a proposition to sell the lands and let them go into private hands; but so far from injuring the development of that country by tunneling, this bill is the very thing to encourage it. It provides that when a man has found a vein and improved it to the extent of $1,000 he may get a title. That is the ver thing that the tunneling companies want. know a great many men engaged in that work. I have many constituents engaged in it. They are all pressing for a title when they find a vein. 'Ihey say, if we run into the mountain and take the chances we want the privilege of buying the vein when we discover it. This bill will allow them to buy nothing but the vein, and expressly, in so many words, holds the entire country open to development. The argument in that letter as to the inconveniences that would arise apply to Julian’s bill, which would sell the lands and stop the development. Thisis simply a confirmation of the present title enabling the miners those who are working in good faith when they have spent their money in this way, to acquire titles and to have no further difficult y about it, and keeping the entire country open. lfI could have 5 minutes’ conversation with the writer of that letter, explain the bill to him, and let him read the section so as to understand it, he would be awarm advocate of the bill. He evidently has not read it, and he has fallen into the popular prejudice of supposing that the land is to be sold in rectangular form between perpendicu lar lines. It has been explained that that cannot be done. A vein pite es into a hill, and a crpendicular line would cut it up into pieces. T‘Ie speaks of that. This bill provides for selling the vein. following it into the earth, with its natural angles and dips. None of the objections which he urges are applicable to this bill. This is simply aconfirmation of the miner’s title. The writer of that letter would be more rejoiced at the passage of this bill, if he understood it, than of any other measure. I see that from the reading of the letter. I know he would be in favor ot the bill, if he understood it, from what he says.