The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1872-11-15
Friday, Nov. 10, S72
Tunnel R~ights.-.-A White Pine Project.

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The mining operations on Treasure
Hill, SO far as they have been carried,
have been sufficient to yield large returns
from two or three mines; very satisfactory
results for q time from some mines which
have since cost all the profits and assess
ments in addition to prosecute the work
of prospecting; and to exhibit to-day, in
the Ward Beecher, the North Aurora,
and the Beecher Consolidated, and per-
haps in the Anchor, splendid bodies of
finest ores. A jar in the mining and
milling interests ome down with us to
a close approach of the severe Winter in
the front, and these splendid mines must
stand almost entirely unworked till
Spring, for lack of room to stack up adj
ditionak hundreds of tuns of fine ore.
With what these mining operations have
demonstrated, they have not settled the
system or build of the mines on the Hill.
Some persons, interested in the District,
are discussing a proiect. for a tunnel, to
start in on the Hamilton and Sherman
town grade, to run under Bromide Flat
and through the Hill to the opposite
W. This would settle the system of
the mines, and at the same time doubt
less hit upon deposits not cropping on
the surface; and also afford n means of
getting out ores to the mills at a greatly
reduced expense, particularly i'll Winter
time. We trust the project will be put
into shape; and see no reason why a
moderate sun in Government bonds
say Observation-Disclosures be obtained
as a loan in aid of the work.
Below we give a circular from Willis
Drummond, of the General Land office,
explaining the rights of tunnels as exist
ing under the Mining Law of May 10,
1872:
In response to your letter of the 18th
inst, desiring the construction of this
office of the clause in the mining Act of
Nav 10, 1872, relative to the tunnels, |
have the honor to state that the interpre-
tation uniformly given by this office to
the fourth section of said statute may be
found under the head of tunnel rights,
: commencing on page 8 of circular here
with dated June 10, 1872, from which il
will be perceived that the line of the tun-
mel is held to be the width thereof and
no more; and that upon this line only is
prospecting foF blind lodes prohibited
while the tunnel is in progress; and that
the right is granted to the tunnel owners
to fifteen hundred feet of each blind lode,
not previously known to exist, which
NAV be discovered in such tunnels SC
long as they keep without the line of the
tunnel as herein defined; the said line
being required by our regulations to be
marked on the surface 10y stakes or monu-
ments placed along the same from the
face or point of commencement to the
end of the tunnel line aforesaid. When
abode is struck or discovered for the first
time, by running n tunnel, the tunnel
owner have the option of recording then
claim of fifteen hundred feet all on one
side of the point of the discovery or in
tersection, or partly upon n or partly
upon the other side thereof; but in no
case can they record a claim so Us to alb
sorb the actual or constructive possession
of other parties on a lode which had
been discovered and claimed outside the
line of the tunnel before the discovery
thereof in the tunnel.