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WIDTH.
181,2. Sec. 2. The width of lode claims hereafter located in Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder and Summit counties shall be seventy-five feet on each side of the center of the vein or crevice; and in all other counties, the width of the same shall be one hundred, and fifty feet on each side of the center of the vein or crevice. Provided, that hereafter any county may, at any general election, determine upon a greater width, not exceeding three hundred feet on each side of the center of the vein or lode, by a majority of the legal votes cast at said election, and any county, by such vote at such election may determine upon a less width than above specified.
LOCATION  CERTIFICATE.
1813.' Sec 3. The discoverer of a lode shall, within three months from the date of discovery, record his claim in the office of the recorder of the county in which such lode is situated, by a location certificate; which shall contain: 1st, the nanrje of the lode; 2d, the name of the locator; 3d, the date of location; 4th, the number' of feet in length claimed on each side of the center of discovery jhrtft; 5th, the general course of the lode as near as may be.
1&14. Sec 4. Any location certificate of a lode claim which shall hot contain the name of the lode, the name of the locator, the date of location, the number of lineal feet claimed on each side of the discovery shaft, the general course of the lode, and such description as shall identify the claim with reasonable certainty, shall be void.
DISCOVERY   SHAFT, STAKING.
1815.    Sec 5. Before filing such location certificate the discoverer shall locate his claim by : First, sinking a discovery shaft upon the lode to the depth of at least ten feet from the lowest part of the rim of such shaft at the surface, or deeper if necessary to show a well defined crevice. Second, by posting at the point of discovery on the surface, a plain sign or notice containing the name of the lode, the name of the locator and the date of discovery. Third, by marking the surface boundaries of the claim.
1816.     Sec. 6. Such surface boundaries shall be marked by six substantial posts, hewed or marked on the side or sides which are in toward the claim, and sunk in the ground, to wit: One at each corner and one at the center of each side line. Where it is practically impossible, on account of bed-rock, to sink such posts, they may be placed in a pile of stone; and where, in marking the surface boundaries of a claim any one or more of such posts shall fall by right upon precipitous ground, where the proper placing of it is impracticable, or dangerous to life or limb, it shall be legal and valid to place any such post at the nearest practicable point, suitably marked to designate the proper place.
1817.    Sec 7. Any open cut, cross-cut or tunnel which shall cut a lode at the depth of ten feet below the surface, shall hold such lode the same as if a discovery shaft were sunk thereon, or an adit of at least ten feet in along the lode, from the point where the lode may be in any manner discovered, shall be equivalent to a discovery shaft.
1818.    Sec 8. The discoverer shall have sixty days from the time of uncovering or disclosing a lode to sink a discovery shaft thereon.
1826. Sec 16. No location certificate shall claim more than one location, whether the location be made by one or several locators. And if it purport to claim more than one location, it shall be absolutely void, except as to the first location therein described. And if they are described together, or so that it cannot be told which location is first described, the certificate shall be void M to all.