The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-03-14
4 NOTICE OF LOCATION.
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Loca Melone in Salt Lake tribune.
Asone gains some practical knowledge
On q subject, he begins to understand how
ignorant he was when his knowledge was
only theoretical Of the same.
I had not been long in Southern Utah
before had heard enough about mining
and sudden fortunes made In ID to excite
me. slipped out into the mountains to
prospect some before everything was dis
covered and taken. Noone was asked to
accompany me. for felt kind OF nervous
greediness-wanted every ledge could
discover, and every inch OF It. So quiet
was my departure that il seemed like steal
Ing march on Somebody heading OFF the
enemy, as it were. sa
/ had examined a few specimens of min
erals, turned them oTer and over in my
hands; had read the mining laws, and felt
that knew considerable. The members
of Congress enacted the mining laws, and
then appointed man, the General Land
Commissioner, TO explain what they meant
by Il. He.eonld not tell what they meant,
but, being fattered By the honor conferred
upon him, made some rough gnesses, and
published them as Constructions tlaereun-
der" These were psrused by me. In re-
gard to making locations, notice was taken
of the Commissioners conjecture that D To-
Gator ought to be citizen of the United
States, or have declared his intention TO
become such. thought was qualified
under this Instruction. Did not remember
ever to have been out of the country; and
fany of my family have ever. travelled,
they presentsno surface indications Of il.
Attention was given to the COMMISSIONERS
surmises that the notice of location should
give the course and distance as nearly ais
practicable from the discovery shaft on the
claim, to some prominent, we'll known OBJ
jects or points, such, for instance, as stone
monuments, the confluence of streams,
blazed trees, points of intersection of well
known gulches, ravines or roads, promi-
nent hills, buttes, etc. And when he s,ls-
picions that the claimant should state the
names Of adjoining claims, or, ifnone adj
join, the relative position of tile nearest
claims.
E All this, hover, was somewhat confused
IN my head BY the time discovered soma
groupings showing STAN. Yet, man
aged to write and post this notice a
Notice isl hereby given that /, citizen
OF the United States, SO far as / know, dc
hereby claim and locate fifteen hundred
feet on and along this ledge, the same run.
ming funder the commissioner instruction
to give the general course OF such vein)
toward Idaho in one direction and toward
the Apache country in another. That
lay claim to seven hundred and fifty fee,
on each side of this location monume Mt
and call it mine with all the dips, spnrs,
swells and contortions thereof, and vllers
ir humps itself also three hundred feel
on each side of the monument for elbow
room. That this location monument il
situated {under give course and distances
as nearly as practicable from the discovery
monument to the confiuencs or we'll known
streams 1souttmesterly, and go,l long
ways, from whore the Green and Grand
rivers come together. Il is to the west
(under give distance from prominent
hills } Of the big, main range Of the r ,cky
mountains considerably 40. II is to the
west Of the Grand Canon os tn. Colorado
(under weil-known gulches y. The near
est known claims {under # none adjoip,
state the relative positiJl Of the nearest
known CLAIMS > are Mexico. on the south,
claimed by the Mexicans the British
Possessions on the north, located by the
British folks McGarrihan claim on the
vest, and war claims in the East.
81 This mining claim is to be known as
the Richard. but to be called Dickey If il
pans Said claim is more fully described
by metes and bounds, as follows, viz !:
Beginning at a stone monument, not very
high, seven hundred and fifty feet south of
the location monument, and running thence
easterly three hundred feet to the skeleton
Oh i coyote, much weather beaten. Thence
northerly, fifteen hundred feet, as the
GRO v flies, the line touching, in its course,
the frontier Of small ant hill, TO where I
saw chipmunk scud. Thence, three
hundred feet in the direction Of the Sand
wich Islands, the line passing on the sunny
side Of scrub cedar that has an old hor-
nets nest in it, to an adult sage brush.
Thence, still meandering toward the set
ting sun, three hundred feet, where left a
hunk (under instructions as to stone mon
urpents } of bread Of my own cooking.
Thence, three jumps of . jack rabbit, one
thae feels his oats, to where I scared up .
sage hen. Thence, three hundred feet to
the place whsre started from .
had no ledge carefully assayed. The
stain was vegetable, and the ledge Has
country rock, not the very best country
rock, but middling good. But couldn't
com plain.