Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-05-07
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
GENERAL LAND OFFICE, :

January 26, 1869.
Register and Receiver u. ). Land Office,
Carson City, Nevada: Gentlemen-You
will please report, without delay, the follow
ing cases in which the plat and field notes
have been received, transmitting applica-
tons, notices, afidavits, certificates, re-
ceipts, and all other documents connected
with them: First-Dean Co.'S claim.
Second-Utah Co.'S claim on Comstock lode.
Third-Golden Swan Co.'s claim. Fourth
Bailey claim. Fith-Atlantic and Pacific
Co.'s claim on Star Light lode. Sixth
Atlantic and Pacific Gold and Silver Mining
Co.'s claim on the Midas lode. Seventh
Homestead claim. Eighth-Union claim.
Ninth-Cosmopolitan. Tenth-Buckcye.
Eleycnth-Opal. Naturalization. Thir-
teenth-Geo. +. Gcisse. Fourteenth-Grant
claim. acknowledgements. Sixteenth
Victorine. Observation-Disclosures
centh-Alabama Gold and Silver Mining
Co.'s claim. Observation-Disclosures Sidonia.
Twentieth-Numa Deperus. Twenty-frst-
German Gold and Silver Mining Co.'s claim.
Observation-Disclosures, Jr. claim. Twen-
~ty-third-Tablc Mountain Co.'S claim.
Twenty fourth-Savage Co. on Comstock
lode. Twenty-fhh-Northern Star claim on
North Star lode. Twenty-sixth-Wess Gold
and Silver Mining Co.'S claim. Twenty
~seyenth-Twin River Co.'S claim. Twenty
c~ightA-Silver Bend Mining Co.'s claim.
In he following cases the proof is defect.
i've; F;:st-Montgomcry Gold and Silver
Mining Co.'S claim, Registers certificate
No. IL and proof Of citizenship, or Of incor-
poration. not transmitted. Second-Ohio
Co.'S claim, Registers certificate No. IL, and
a copy OF Mining Customs, wanted. Third
Front Lode Consolidated, Registers ccrtif-
cate and a copy of Mining Customs, want
ing; Receivers receipt has no number.
Fourth-Rapidan claim, Registers certi6-
cate No, ii. and a copy Of Mining Customs,
wanting. Fifth-Rogers' claim, Registers
certificate No. 20, and a copy Of Mining Gus
toms, wanting. S~ixth-TNin Co.'S claim
upon the Twin No. 9, North Lode, Registers
certificate No. l6, copy Of Mining Customs,
and proof Of citizenship, or of corporation,
wanting.
You will please transmit these missing
documents without delay, and in cases not
yet reported, you will endeayor TO observe
some regularity in the preparation OF the
cases, and in the documents sent here in
each application.
You may take the Montgomery Gold and
Silver Mining Co.'S application, with a few
amendments to the report as a sample case.
On that You report the following papers, viz:
|. Copy of Mining Laws Of the district.
2. Copy Of the notice Of application.
3. Affidavit Of posting. and expenditure.
1. Affidavit of possession and occupancy.
5. Certificate Of County Recorder as to
title.
6. Publishers affidavit.
z. Trcasurer's certificate.
s. Contract to purchase.
O.. Receivers receipt, No. II.
II this list had included the certificate Of
the Register, n copy Of the diagram posted
on the claim, and proof OF citizenship Of the
members Of the company, or Of their incor-
poration, it would have been we'll reported,
and might have served as a guide in all sub
scqucnt cases; and bearing in mind that the
last named papers are to be added, you may
still treat the montgomery as 4 rule to be
followed in future, and by that means i'm
part some degree Of uniformity and system
to your reports in mining applications.
You will please act upon the above enum-
Grated cases at once, and also report the
present status Of all cases in which protests
have been fled by adverse claimants. Very
respectfully, JOS. 5. WILSON,
Commissioners.