The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-12-31
Amended Mining Laws and
Regulations, of Jenney
Mining District
II Black Hills.

BLACK HILLS,
Dec 18th, 1875.
Pursuant to call, "A miners meeting
was held at the cabin oEJohn Allen,
en- Spring Creek in Jenney's Mining
District, Black Hills, at . o'clock p.
m. on Thursday the sixteenth day of
December, 1879.
The meeting was called TO order,
and John Robertson, was elected
President of the meeting, and a. j.
Botsford, Secretary On motion the
Secretary read the cali for this meet
ing, and also the Mining Laws of this
District, Adopted fifteenth JuiysIS75.
ON motion; the following preumble
and resolutions were unanimously
adopted.
WHEREAS, the laws OF this district
are IN some respects indefinite and
detective, and
Whereas the Black Hills have been
virtually opened to miners by the
Withdrawal of all United States
troops from these Hills since the
seventeenth of November, 1875, thus
kiNtbE NiNAll IlAltAAtlS Htf OPPORTUNITY
to represent their claims; therefore be
il resolved,
That the following boundaries and
mining laws be permanently cstab.
lished for this district only to be
amended or repealed, by n two-thirdS
majority at u miners meeting pro
perly called for that purpose, and all
former boundaries and district laws
in conflict with the following are
herFJy pSled
BOUNDARIES.
All that section of country drained
by Spring Creek and its tributaries,
and extending from n point mile
above the junction OF Spring Creek
and Newtcn's Fork, to Il point ten
miles below the discovery claim on
Spring Greek, shall be known, aud IS
hereby re-organized as Jvnuey's Mi
ming District, and in addition to the
United States Laws, shall be gov
erned by the following mining laws.
Sec. lst- a gulch claim shall con
sist of three hundred feet in length IN
the general eourse of the gulch or
stream on which it may be located,
and shall includes all bars on each side
of the creek not exceeding thirty feet
above the surface level of the creek
adjoining.
See. %. All guleh claims shall lie
represented by at least one days
work in every ten days after the date
of its location, but in all cases VIII, re
two or more claims shall lie held
jointly or located in company, the
work necessary to hold all of such
claims may be done on any one or
more of such claims, so located.
Sec. Sd. No person slulil beallowed
to take water out OF THIS creek or any
of its tributaries beyond the boundn-
ries of their W claims to the detri-
mcnt of other claim-holders, o
shall any person be allowed to run
tallings onto claims below without
the wner consent, but NIL claim
holders shall have the privilege of
drainage and II tail ditch through
the adjoining claims. In all cases
where water shall be taken eut of lis
natural channel, ii shall be returned
thereto before entering the next claim
below, unless otherwise mutually ar
ranged between adjoining claim
holders.
Sec. 4. Hill claims shall consist of
three hundred feet front, and shall
extend back to the summit of the
hill, and shall be subject to the same
regulations, as TO location and repre-
sentation, as gulch claims.
Sec. 8. A ledge claim shall consist
of fifteen hundred feet in length
along the course of the vein located,
by two hundred feet In width, being
one hundred feet on each side of the
centre of the vein located, and shall
include all other veins, spurs, dips
and angles within the limits of its
boundaries. In no ca Sc shall the dis
covery shaft and stake be located
nearer than one hundred feet to either
end OF the claim.
Sec. 6. Every ledge claim must
have a defined vein of mineral. bear
ing rock in place exposed thereon,
before it shall be considered as ii
claim. Ten days work shall be done
thereon within sixty days from the
date of its location, and one hundred
dollars worth of work shall be per-
formed thereon in every year after
the date of its location, until a gov
eminent title shall have been ac-
quired for the same. All persons ell
titled TO hold claims in this district,
shall have the privilege OF running
tunnels for the more convenient work
ing of ledses. or for quartz prospect
ing purposes, aud shall have the
right of way and the privilege of a
dump in connection Herewith.
Sect. No person shall be allowed
TO locale~IHore than one gulch, nor
more than me hill claims. on The same
hill, nor more than one ledge claim