Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-12-10

hundred feet as claim No. 4, south; for J.
N. vandermark two hundred feet as
claim No. 5, south; for S. s. Shut, two
hundred as claim No. 6, south, and for
various other claims up to No. II, south.
What sort OF notice was placed on the
north stake is unimportant if it were
known. fH||N
Having thus made their locations, all
hands went to work in the groupings at
discovery point, and during several hours
were engaged in digging out and piling
up the ore.
At sunset Hamblin and Gill accompa-
MED the Salt Lake party to their camp,
which was at Meadow Valley, about ten
miles south Of the Panaca claims.
There, on the next day, March Is, 1864,
meeting was held for the purpose Of Or
ganizing mining district and adopting a
code Of laws. There were present Ham.
bin, Gill. Sherwood, Box, Vandermark
and Peter Shirts. Six persons, compris-
ing all the white men inthe country at
that time. Hamblin was Chairman of
the meeting and Sherwood was Secretary.
A code Of laws was agreed upon and
adopted, and Sherwood elected Recorder
of the District. .-r
Immediately after the adoption of these
laws and the election of Sherwood as Re-
corder, the Salt Lake party being without
tools and supplies necessary for mining
operations, returned to Salt Lake City,
distant three hundred miles, for the pur-
pose of procuring necessary supplies.
Sherwood took with him copies of the
notices that had been placed on the Pa
naca. and other locations, and minute
of the proceedings OF the meeting at
which the mining laws were adopted.
Arrived in Salt Lake City he procured o
book in which to record the laws and To-
cations OF the Meadow Valley Mining
District, and appointed s. IS. Shut his
deputy to make the record.
Shut first recorded the laws, which,
as so recorded have ever since been rec
ognized as the laws Of the Meadow VAL
ley Mining District, except SO far as they
have been amended or altered from time
to time by the miners.
The material portions Of these laws re-
lating to the location, recording and
working of claims on silver lodes, are as
follows: --- -a.
Article Defines the boundaries OF
the district, making it square of GO
miles with the center at Meadow Valley,
which is ten miles south Of the Panaca
Art Limits the extent OF claims on
mineral veins to two hundred feet along
the lode, and five hundred feet on each
side of the lode. 1t allows the discover.
er Of vein two hundred feet extra for
discovery.
Art. Provides that "all claims shall
be measured in a horizontal line and
numbered one, two. three, etc. from the
discovery claim either way"
Art 5. Each company must do one
faithful days work ON their claim each
month, after the same shall have been To-
Gated one year; and failure to do SO the
claim Tor claims will be subject to re.
location by any other person; provided,
however, that il the company are pre-
vented by local insurrection or rebellion,
a failure to do so will not forfeit thei,
claims.
Art. 7. Work done on any tunnel, shaft
drift, water ditch or water privilege in
good faith shall be considered as beine
done on the claim owned by such person
or persons or company.
Art. s. Every claim whether by indi.
vidual or company located, shall be re.
corded within ten days after date of loca.
ton.
Art. IL. Whenever three hundred dol.
lars shall have been expended upon the
claims of any company in this district,
the ground so claimed by said company
shall be deemed as belonging in fee tc
the locators or company thereof and theil
assignees, and the same shall not be sub
ject to location or relocation by othel
parties ever after. except by an acknowl
edged abandonment by the company oi
the ground, which shall be construed tc
mean an entire abandonment, aftel
lying idle for one year, except in cases
where claims were in litigation.
Art. l6. There shall be District Re-
corder elected from among the miner.
of the district, whose duty it shall be tc
record all numbers of claims presented
for the purpose, giving the name of each
number anu owner, etc.
After recording the laws Shut next
proceeded to record in the same book the
mining locations that had been made, in.
cluding those on the Panaca. 1n making
this record he suggested that it would bs
better to make it in the form OF certi
ficate by the Recorder that certain par.
ties were locators of certain claims, thar
simply to copy into the record the no
tices that had been placed upon thu
ground. The suggestion was approved
by Sherwood, Vandermark. Shirts anc
the Boxes, who were present in Salt Lake
City, where the record was being made
Shut thereupon made the records al
hereafter set forth with the consent ant
approval of the parties interested.
Ito RE coNTrNuEp.l