Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-01-29
DAILY RECORD
MINING LAW.
Laws Of Congress Governing the Local
ton, Holding and Working Of
Mining claims Upon the Public
Domain.

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Laws Of the United States. as passed by Con |
s-es. and approved Nsy 10. 1874. These are the 4
last, and hence the only mining laws Of general /
interest and force, with the single exception Of |
portion Of section S, in reference to the reloes-
ton Of claims and mines located prior TO the 4
passage Of the general mining law. The Act
amending the section alluded TO will also be
found following the general law modifying sec
ton 5, so that claim located prior to May 10,
ls72 is not subject to relocation until June 10,
1874
AN ACT to promote the development OF the
Mining resources OF the United States
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of Rep
resentatives of the United States Of America in
Congress assembled, That all valuable mineral
deposits in lands belonging TO the United States,
both surveyed and unsuryoyed, are hereby de
elared to be free and open 10 exploration and
purchase, and the lands in which they !
are found TO occupation and purchase /
by citizens Of the United states and |
those who have declared there intention to BE-
come such. under regulations prescribed by law,
and according TO the local customs or rules Of
miners in the several mining districts, so far as
ale same are applicable and not inconsistent
with the laws of the United States.
SEC 2 That mining claims upon veins or
lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing
gold silver cinnsbar, lead, tin copper, or other
valuable deposits heretofore located, shall be
governed as to length along the vein or lode by
the customs, regulations, and laws il force at
the date of heirlocation. A mining claim located
after the passage Of this act, whether located by
one or more persons, may equal, but shall not
exceed one thousand FIVE hundred feet in length
along the vein or lode; but no location of min
ing claim shall be made until the discovery of
the vein or lode within the limits of the claim
located No claim shall extend more than three
hundred feet on each side Of the middle Of the
vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be linn
it'd y mining repulafip nj IN less than
ty-fve feet each side Of the middle Of the vein
at the surface, except where adverse rights exist
ing at the passage of this act shall render such
Limitation necessary. The end-lines Of each
claim shall be parallel to each other.
SEC. 3. That the lOcatOrs of all mining loca-
tons heretofore made, or which shall hereafter
be made, on any mineral vein lode, or ledge, sit
uated on the public domain, their heirs and as
signs where no adverse claim exists at the pas
sage of this act so long as they comply with the
laws of the United States, and the state, Terri
torial and local regulations not in conflict with
said laws of the United States governing their
possessory title shall have the exclusive right Of
possession and enjoyment of all the surface in
cluded within the lines of their locations and Of
all veins, lOdes, and lodges throughout the entire
depth, the top or apex of which lies inside OF
such surface-lipes extended downward vertical
ly, although such veins, lodes or lodges may SO
far depart from perpendicular in their course
downward as TO extend outside the vertical side
lines Of said surface locations, Provided, that
their right Of possession to such outside parts
OF such veins or lodges shall be confined to such
portions thereof lie between vertical planes
drawn downward as aforesaid, through the end
lines of their locations, so continued in their
own direction that such planes will intersect
such exterior parts Of said veins or lodges: And
provided further, that nothing in this section
shall authorize the locator or possessor of a vein
or lode which extends in its downward course
beyond the vertical lines Of his claim to enter
upon the surface Of claim owned or possessed
by another.
SEC. 4. That where n tunnel is run for the
development OF a vein or lode, or for the discov-
cry of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall
have the right Of possession of all veins or lodes
within three thousand feet from the face OF such
tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known
to exist discovered in such tunnel, to the same
extent as If discovered from the surface; and
locations on the line Of such tunnel of veins or
lodes not appearing on the surface, made by
other parties after the commencement of the
tunnel, and while the same is being prosecuted
with reasonable diligence, shall be invalid; but
failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for
six months shall be considered as an abandon
ment of the right to all undiscovered veins on
the line Of said tunnel.
SEC. 8. That the miners OF each mining dis
trict may make rules and regulations not in con-
fict with the laws Of the United States, or with
the laws of the State or Territory in which the
district is situated governing the location, man
ner Of recording, amount Of work necessary to
hold possession of a mining claim, subject tc
the following requirements: Location must be
distinctly marked on the ground so that it,
boundaries can be readily traced. All records Of
mining claims hereafter made shall contain the
name names of the locators, date of the lOCa
ton, and such description of the claim OIL
claims located by referenence to some natural
object or permanent monument as will identify
the claim. On each claim located after the pas
sage of this act, and until patent shall have
been issued therefor, no less than one hundred
dollars worth of labor shall be performed or i'm
provements made during each year. On all
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act, ten dollars worth of labor shall
he performed or Improvements made
each year for each one hundred fee
in length along the vein until patent shall
have been issued therefor; but where such claim
are held in common, such expenditure may b
made upon any one claim; and upon failure t,
comply with these conditions the claim or min
upon which such failure occurred shall be opel
to relocation in the same manner as If no loca
ton of the same had ever been made: Provided
That the original locators, their heirs
assigns, or legal representatives, have not re
sumed work upon the claim after such failur
and before such location. Upon the failure o
any one OF several coowners to contribute hi
portion of the expenditures required by this act
the co-owners who have performed the labor o
made the improvements may, at the expiratio
of the year, give such delinquent co.owner pei
sonal notice in writing or notice by publicatiO
in the newspaper published nearest the claim
for at least once week for ninety days, and if a
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