Arizona citizen., 1878-02-08
Where should Mining Locations
 be Recorded:
GLOBE MINING DISTRICT.

FINAL COUNTY, January D. 1878.
 EDITOR CITIZEN: In accordance with the request of many miners, Il respectfully address you for publication on the exceedingly important question of Where should mining locations be recorded?" and I propose to com ply mainly with quotations and extrscts from all the laws, official decisions and instructions now in force touching the same.
 First comes the laws, i. e., local regulations of this mining district, enacted November 9, 1875, Oi winch section one reads ss follows: That each claim located iu this district shall be recorded ID the district records with in thirty days after the date of location, and any failure to comply with this rule, shall be considered an abandon ment, and the claim subject to lOca- uOn the same as though il had never been located" and this 1 will venture to assert, without fear of successful contradiction, is to-day as far as this district is concerned, In regard tc this question, the permanent law of the land.
 Second. The only Territorial law up on the question is found on page 5S3, Compiled Laws of Arizona, section 1, which was approved November ,, 1s56 and reads as follows: "The mining districts heretofore created in the sev- eral counties of this Territory are here by authorized and empowered to make all necessary rules and regulations for the location, registry and working of mines therein, Provided, that all lOcs- tions and registrations of mines and mineral deposits hereafter made in any oi the said districts shall be transmit cd to the county recorder for record within sixty days after the same shall have been located" From all of which it is perfectly clear that the only locs- tions required by any law to be record
 ed in county records are those made in mining districts which were organ
 ized prior 10 the 5th day of November, [ 1866, and in those districts only those ! locations which have been made since
 that date, that is to say, ai the risk of
 repetition. There is no law requiring
 the recording in The county records
 of mining locations made in any min- ! ing district organized since November
 ,, 1866, and it follows that Globe Min .. ing District, having been organized
 since the said 5th day of November,
 1866, the only proper place to record | locations made therein, Is in the dis trict records, in accordance with the ! District laws thereof, and in order to
 make this position invulnersble, see | United States Revised Statutes and amendments up 10 February l, 1871
 Section 23l9 provides in substance .i that all citizens or those who have de clared their intention 10 become such
 may locate, claim and occupy the min eral laDds, surveyed or unSurveyed oi
 the United States, under regulations ] prescribed by and according to the To cal customs pr rules of miners in the
 several mining districts, &c. Again,
 Section 2322 provides in substsnct that locators, part, present and future on veins, lodes or lodges, "where nc ' adverse claim exists on the 10th day Oi May. 1872, so long as they comply witt : the laws of the United States and witt } State, Territorial and local regulations not in conflict with the laws of th' United States, governing the pOssessorI title, shall have the exclusive right o ] possession" ," &c. And again,
 Section 2324 provides in substance
 that mining districts may make ihei own laws governing the location, man tner of recording, amount of work nee iessary to hold possession, &c., provided ? they shall not be in conflict with th e laws of the United States, State or Ter ritory, in which the district IS situated 2 And again,
 r Section 232j provides in substance that before applying for a patent, al : the laws and regulations in relation t 1 location must be complied with. Ant ]. finally in the instructions 10 minini :, claimants within Arizona from ih n United States Surveyor-General's office ] February l, 1875 the latest-aPpli !, cauts are advised to furnish with thei
 applications, in order to avoid unneC e essary delay. A copy of the origins l. record of location, properly certiHe' o by the recorder having charge of tE r records of the mining locations in th
 district where the claim is situate.
 The passages inclOsed in qGO,atio
 marks are literal and verbasUm extract
 and with the hope that the whole e clear and intelligible. il is respectful Q -,, br,;..aJ b, C A SRksFY