Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-05-08
p,TENrs TO MINING LANDS.

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The law on patents to mining lands
has been very difficult to understand,
mo-, only by the people but also by the
officers connected with our land offices
and the office of the Surveyor General
and by reason of the great delay in pro-
curing patents to our mineral lands by
persons who made the necessary appli-
cations for several years past, a terrible
howl and a growl Gust so, too, has gone
forth against different Governmen: Of
6cers. II has not been until recently |
that instructions from the General Land
Office ut Washington have been sent to
officers in this State, but it is TO be
hoped that there will not be any further
DELAYS. We have obtained a copy OF
an official order from Washington to the
Register and Receiver at Carson City,
which we publish in full for the Informal
ton of all parties concerned-especially
those whose applications are deslg-
nated-so that they can remedy the de-
fects in their papers rs soon rs possible.
Many of those parties have been written
to by the Register, but no answers have
been received, and hence the delay in
their papers is their W fault. The
instructions regarding the necessary
steps to be adopted in obtaining q pat
ent are plain and explicit, and nppli-
cants who have not already complied
strictly with the law in having their
papers prepared, should not delay the
matter. The patents will come il the
law is complied with.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, }
GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
January &c, 1869.
Register and Receiver U. 5. 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, atfdavits, 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. Finh-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. E~ighth-Union claim,
Nin,h-Cosmopolitan. Tenth--Buckeye'
Eleventh-Opal. Twelfth-Harrison. Thir-
teenth-Geo. F. Geisse. Fourteenth-Gran,
claim. acknowledgements. Sixteenth
ccnth-Alabama Gold and Silver Mining
Co.'S claim. Observation-Disclosures Sidonia.
rwentieth-Numa Dcperus. Twenty-frst-
German Gold and Silver Mining Co.'s claim.
Observation-Disclosures, yr. claim. Twen-
ty-third-Tablc Mountain Co.'S claim.
Twenty fourth-Savage Co. on Comstock
lode. Twenty 6fth-Northern Star claim on
North Star lode. Twenty-sixth-West Gold
and Silver Mining Co.'s claim. Twenty
scventh-Twin River Co.'s claim. Twenty
~cighth-Silver Bend Mining Co.'s claim.
In the following cases the proof is defect.
i've: First-Mon:gomery Gold and Silver
No. II and proof Of citizenship, or Of incor-
poration. not transmitted. Second-0hio
Co.'S claim, Registers certificate No. IL, and
4 copy Of Mining Customs, wanted. Third
Front Lode Consolidated, Registers cer;if-
cate and n copy Of Mining Customs, want
ing; Receivers receipt has no number.
Fourth-Rapidan claim, Registers certif-
cate No, II. and a copy Of Mining Customs,
wanting. Fifth-Rogcrs' claim, Registers
certificate No. 20, and a copy of Mining Gus
toms, wanting. Sixth-rwin Co.'S claim
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 moi
yet reported, you will endeavor 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