The Placer herald., 1873-10-25
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Application for a Patent
Mining Claim.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
SACRAMENTO. Call, Oct. IA, 1873.

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SACRAMENTO, CAL, Oct. a. 1873.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that the
~ Ophir Gold and Silver Mining and Milling
Company, by George Bronner, its President,
whose postofiice is Sacramento city and county,
Cal has made application for patent for two
thousand q 2O0O) ineal feet of the Ophir Gold
and Silver Mining and Milling Company's lode
bearing gold and silver, with surface ground 200
feet in width, situate in Ophir and Auburn Min
ing District, Placer County, California, and de-
scrbed in the plat and field notes on file III this
Office as follows, viz:
SURVEY CT EXTERIOR BOUNDARIES.
Commencing at a stake marked 3D. stand
ing at the east end of the claim and being the
eastern boundy of the lead and run, var. 1917 E
n. 14o T.. 1.51 % chains to stake No. An Il cor.
of claim from which a white oak, IA inches di-
ameter, bears south 26' + .37 chs, white oak
II in dia bears N 1879 L 70 links: thence N
76" w 936 chs to center of Hughs Ravine H.
60 chs to stake No. (no witness tree near !;
thence N COZ w 5S7 chs to center Of Small
Ravine, S.22 chs to stake No. 2, from which a
pine 10 IN. dia, bears 220 E 65 links distant:
thence n So W 772 chs to stake No. IN w
corner of claim, from which the N + corner of
the S L q of section 7, township II north,
range cast, Mount Dablo base and meridian,
bears 641lo L 10 40 chs distant thence S a.
w 1.5lH chs to stake ON ledge marked "a
previC,s sly established, .03 chs to stake No. s.
S W corner of claim and n w corner OF mill
site Ono witness tree near); thence ) So f.
chs to stake No. Z thence S coz f 1.S0 chs to
center of small ravine S.22 chs to stake No. 9,
from which pine in. dia, bears S 80 links;
thence S 76o L chs to center of Hughs ravine,
/ t. 80 chs to stake No. 5, from which pine in.
dia, bears S 231a9 W 10 links, pine & in. dia
bears S 17e + % links Distant thence 14o 4
15l% % chs to stake marked "D'' and place of
begnning-containing 21-100 acres.
SURVEY OF CONTIGUOUS MILL SITE.
r., \ ptnla No 1ybi IS
corner of the above named Ophir Gold and
Silver Mining and Milling Companys Quartz
Nine; thence variation 16H0E, 1877 13
chs to stake No. 9-S w corner of mill site,
from which pine 10 ip dia bears S GO w "a
links, pine in. dia bears 13e W 80 chs
thence 5 $50 f | ch to stake No. 10-S E cor
ner. from which pine in dia bears 36e L
10 links distant, thence n 411I9 Il IL. 32 ch to
stake No II, on south line of mining claim,
from which a pine in dia. bears N 270 + 80
| links dist; thence n coz w 10 ch to small
ravne 80 ch to stake No. 7, previously estaD
lshed, thence N. $50 w 700 chs to stake No.
and place of beginning; containing S-59 acres
total area of claim and mill site 1880 acres and
being portion of the N = of a sec Z
and N W a of W = Of sec 8, TIP II N, II f.
Mt. Diablo base and meridian. Said location
was made in the year 1856, and was recorded,
but the records have been destroyed. There are
no adjoining claimants, the nearest mine on the
South is the Green Walter quartz mine: The
Crackln and company claim on the East, ard
the Bellevue Mining company's quartz NINE on
the West. All persons holding any adverse
claim thereto are hereby required to present the
same before this Office within sixty days from
the first day Of publishing hereof.
r. i. MCFARLAND, Register.
Dibble & Byrne, Attorneys for applicant.