The Arizona sentinel., 1879-08-16

 g an alien cannot bel patented while sue !, owner is an alien; but on his declaratio l to become citizen, his right dates bac to his purchase, and he may thereupo secure United States patent for his claim
 APPLICATION FOR PATENTS.
 Where papers have once been filed wit r the Register and Receiver, they become 1 part of the record and can neither b withdrawn or returned, but must b, transmitted to the General Land Office.
 An application will be rejected wbel the description of the premises Is erroue ous or insufficient.
 Application for patent will be reject ed. because
 Isf Tbc notice was sublisAed without the knowledge of the Register.
 2d. The notice was not published in a newspaper designated as published near. est the claim.
 3d. The record title was found defect. i've; and
 4th. A previous application had been made for the same premises, which was withdrawn pending suit in court com menced by the adverse claimant.
 An application for patent will be re. jected when the survey does not accu. rately defn" the boundaries of the claim. Where the claim was not located ln ac- cordance with the law.
 Where several parties own separate and distinct portions of claim, application for patent may be made by either for that portion of the claim owned by him; but where several parties own undivided in. terests in mining claim, all should join in an application for patent.
 A person or association may purchase as many placer locations as the local law permits, and embrace them all in one ap. plica:ion for patent.
 Two or more lodes cannot be embraced in one application for patent, except for placer claims embracing two or nor. lodes within their boundaries.
 Papers sworn to before any person pur- porting to act as deputy for the Register or receiver cannot be recorded as eyi- dencc.
 Valuable deposits of borax may be en- tered as placers.
 Auriferous cement claims must be ap- piled for as placers.
 Clnnabar claims cannot be entered as placers.
 In all patents for mining claims situated within the exterior boundaries of 8 town site, clause is inserted excepting and excluding all town property, rights upon the surface, and all houses, buildings, structures, lots. blocks, streets. alleys or other municipal Improvements not be- longing 10 the grantee herein, and all rights unnecessary or proper to the occu- patton, possession and enjoyment of the same."
 Petroleum claims may be patented un. der the mining act of May 10th. 1872.
 Publication of notice must be made in only one newspaper for the period of sixty days.
 Notices must be published ten consecu- tive weeks in weekly newspapers, and in daily newspapers sixty days must elapse between the first and last insertions.
 Where the Register designates the daily issue o; newspaper for publication of notice of < mining application for pal ent, it is not in compliance with law t. change to the weekly edition of the same paper without authority of the Register. The existence oi salt spring on a tract of land withdraws 1t from the ope- rations of the homestead and preemption laws 1 hearing for the purpose of prov ing the agricultural character of such land Is not allowed. Land containing valuable deposits of salt may be patented under the mining laws. Valuable depos- it's of slate may be entered under the mining acts.
 TUNNELS. There Is no authority of law for tun- nel location 5000 by 500 feet A proper location IS the width of the tunnel itseli for 5000 feet.
 There is nc provision of law for patent ing tunnel locations, but lodes discovered in running a tunnel may be patented Tn like manner as other lodes. The right is granted to tunnel owners to l, 800 feet of each blind lode, not preVi' | ously known to exist, which may be dis- covered in their tunnaI