The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-12-02
The e@ Miner.
Mining Laws of Wallapai Mining Dis trict, Mohave County, Arizona.

hereafter as the walapii Mining District, and shall be bounded as follows, to wit:
 Commencing at Bcae Springs and running thence along the Prescott and Mohave toil road, westerly, ten miles, thence up the sac ramentO Valley centrally with the river range of mountains thirty miles, thence east twen- ty miles thence down the Wanapai Valley to road and thence to Beale Springs.
 ARr. 2 That each locator or claimant to amining claim shall be entitled to hold by | location, two hundred feet in length on any | lead. lode or vein, in the district, with all it's dips, spurs, angles, cffshoots, outcrops, depths widths and variations and all minerals and other valuables therein contained, the dis coverer of or locator of any lode, lead or vein | being entitled to one claim extra, d two hundred feet for discovery. The locator or Iocators shall also be entitled to one hun dred feet on each side of the lode or vein for working purposes, but this shall not be con strued to mean any district or parallel lode or vein within the two hundred feet other than the one originally located.
 ARr g. That all locations or claims here after to be located, shall state in the notice, AS near as possible, the vicinity or locality ot said claim lode or vein in clear and concise manner in reference to some particular part of the district, or to some well known point, hill or lode, and locators of claims are required to place q good and substantial stake or mon ument of not less than three feet in height at the discovery point of sad lode or vein with notice posted thereon stating the date ot location, the name or names of the locator or locators, the extent of ground claimed, and all claims located shall be recorded with in fifteen days after the date of location. Noncompliance with the provisions of this section or article shall be construed as an abandonment and subject the ground to relo- cation.
 ARr. 4. It shall be the duty of the Re corder to keep in a suitable book or books, full record of all meetings and proceedings had thereat free of charge. and to file and place on record all claims or locations brought to him for record provided his fees are ten derei. 4 failure 50 to ao vii! be considered forfeiture of the office.
 ART. $. That the Recorder or his deputies shall be required to visit all locations before recording the same, and that he receive there for the sum of fifty cents for each name or location of two hundred feet, and one dollar extra for each notice of location.
 ART. 6. That any refusal or neglect of the District Recorder to perform any act required Of him by the district laws shall be deemed a forfeiture of the office, Proriied that three notices be posted in three public places in the district, calling a miners meeting, giving, at
 
 ject of the meeting and signed by not less than ten claim holders At said meeting the party aggrieved shall submit written charges and if sustained by q majority of the miners present the office shall be declared vacan, and his successor shall be immediately elected by said meeting or by an adjourned meeting ARr. '. All locations already recorded shall have work done on them for every To cation of two hundred feet a shaft of on, n .A F. | -.l- AL feet by five feet or excavste it's equivalent 1T cubic feet, and said work may be done oI any part of the lode or vein on or before tn first day of February, A. D. 1872, whcl work shall hold good until the first day O May, A. D. 1872, when a similar amount o work shall have been done on them to hol' the same until the first day of February, D. 1873, and work at a same amount contin ue in relation to time and dates until shaf of twenty feet in depth be done and per formed, when the claim or claims will requir no further representation, and all location shall have the same amount of work done O them, to wit: one foot deep of shaft by no less than three feet by five feet (that sai work may be done on any part of the lOd or vein) to each location of two hundred fee within ninety days after recording them he a like amount shall be done on them withi ninety days thereafter to hold them for on year, and work at a same amount must COT tinue in relation to time and dates until shaft of twenty feet in depth be done an performed when all representation shall b dispensed with. Non compliance with th section or article of the law will be COT strued as \ forfeiture and abandonment, an subject the ground Co relocation.
 ART. $. There shall be District Minin Recorder of the district whose term of offiC shall be for one year or until his successor elected and qualified, who shall have custod of the books, and he shall also have author ity to appoint one or more deputies and sha be responsible for their acts. The Records shall be elected by the miners of the distri, at the annual meeting in November of eac year or at an adjourned meeting thereof, ( in case Of death or resignation or otherwi. as prescribed in article six.
 ART. 9. It shall be the duty of the K, corder to give any claim holder who sha have a claim recorded in his books A certii receive the sum of one dollar and fifty cent
 ART. 10. It shall be the duty of the R corder to give lOcators or owners of clain who shall make written affidavit that has done certain amount of work on a vel or lode, receipt for the same, and for sal service he shall receive the sum of one dol and fifty cents, and said amount shall incluC the expense of filing the affidavit.
 ART. II. These laws shall be subject revision, alteration or amendment by m Jority Of claim owners and actual residents the district, at all times: provieled, I'm twenty-five claim owners cause to be post, in three public places, notice setting fort