The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-12-11
Look Out For Your Claims.

Owners OF unpatented mining claims are
hereby reminded that the time for the first
annual expenditure ON claims located prior
to the passage of the act of May 10th, 1872,
expires on january 1st, 1873. The para
graph in tic law referring to this, reads as
f.1lla,.c
Of this act, and lilltII Il pstJuno ,s.sst. ....-
been issued therefor, not less than one hum
dred dollars worth of labor shall be per-
formed or improvements made during each
year. On all claims located prior to the
passage Of this act ten dollars worth of
labor shall be performed or improvements
made for each one hundred feet in length
along the vein until a patent shall have
been issued therefor, but where such claims
are held i'll common such expenditure may
be made on any one claim and upon fail
/ ure to comply with these conditions, the
claim or mine upon which such failure
occurred shall be open to relocation in the
same manner as if no location of the same
had ever been made.
The bill was SO amended that the time
| for tie first annual expenditure on claims
| located prior to the passage of the act, was
extended to January 1st, 1875 Those
| claims which are not patented are subject
to the provisions of these laws requiring
| the annual expenditure. and where work
has not beer done it is time now to begin
| it.
There is another exceedingly important
| feature of this provision of the law, In this
that although all proceedings for patent
mag have been had, the final payment made
to the receiver, and the case sent to Wash
ington for patenting; that until the patent
! itself is actually issued the necessity still
exists for dong the work or making the ex-
/ In al ~
location, the same as if the application for
patent had not been made, as the law re-
quires the annual expenditure to be made
until the issuance of patent for the cl,im.
Parties having claims pending at Washing
ton should not, therefore, fall into the error
of supposing that they are relieved from do
/ ing work to hold such claims the patent
title itself alone relieving the claim from
/ that necessity.
Placer mines are exempt from annual cx
penditures. The acting Commissioner oil
the general Land Office decided, April 25,
this year, that the 10th section, taken il
connection with the 9th section of the ac
of May 10th, 1874, showed that it was the
intention of Congress to require annual ex.
penditnres only upon veins or lode claims
leaving placer claims as they had been pre-
vious to the passage of said act, subject tt
the operations of the local laws, rules, reg
ulations and customs.
The matter of annual expenditures i,
one which should be attended to witlou
delay, us there ARE doubtless a number o
men who have ssspotted' desirable proper
ties upon which the requisite amonnt of In
Dor has not been done. The time for tht
first annual expenditure has been postpm
ed so long that there is no excuse for fail
ure to work, If the mine is supposed to bt
worth the outlay.
A New ENTEIlPRIsE.-Fo me nothin:
is more Interesting than to see q man il
the first intense strain of ii new enterprise
itIr,ay be a new cider mill: itlnay be u Iley
mans life. lie lives thirty days In one
Old trite proverbs take onnew and startlin:
meanings. He laoks upon all men aud al
things in strange. new lisilf. lie judge
all men and all things with regard to TIL
accomplishment OF his own supreme design
During a certain time the stars i'm tbei
courses fight fnr lnI; then the very nnvsrs
changes its direction and pushes with al
!, its weight asaia.~t his tuttering walls
another change. and u Thousand accident
are in his favssr. He does not know til
years afterwasl With what commemorative
/ he laboFed in ti.t.>s- days of beginning III
:. smiles at himself. aud ts.lls ps.,sant stafie
nf his naake-shitas AMI absorption; and mas
with he sees as,tl.er ,silsi ys,ltngcr Iersn
starting his cider mill viii. The Old oafwoa
enthusiasm, he .,xs IN with the sans hal
sympathetic half :'es n;e.ll interest with wlic
. an old married csupl contemplate tw
! yulng penple win ilsv. iu fallrll IN ls,ve
sseribaera fos. Dersasber