Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-12-20
APPLICATION or PATENT.


An Application for patent will be rejected
when the survey does not accurately do
fine the boundaries Of the claim.
Where the claim was not located In 90
cordAnce with law.
Where several parties own separate and
distinct portions Of claim. application
for patent may be made BY either Tor that
portion Of tho 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 a.
many placer locations a. the local law ad'
mits, and embrace them all In one appli-
cation for patent.
Two or more lodes cannot be embraced
In one application for . patent except for
placer claims embracing two or more lodes
within their boundaries.
Papers sworn to before any person pur-
porting to act - deputy for the Register
and Receiver, cannot be recorded - evil
dence. i,
In all patents for mining claims situated
within tho interior boundaries OF town
site, clause 10 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 belong
ing TO the grantee herein, and all rights
necessary or proper to the occupation pos
session and enjoyment Of the same"
Publication Of notice must be made In
only one newspaper for the period OF sixty
days.
Notice must be published ten consecu-
tive weeks in weekly newspapers, and In
daily newspapers sixty days must eiapse
between tho drst and the last insertions.
Where the Register designates tho daily
issue Of Q newspaper for publication Of
notices Of mining application for patent.
IL 10 not . compliance with law to change
to the weekly edition Of the Same paper
without authority Of the Register.
The existence Of salt spring on tract
Of land withdraws II from the operation OF
the homestead and pre-emption laws. A
hearing for the purpose OF proving the
agricultural character Of such land 10 not
allowed. Land containing valuable de-
posits Of slate may bo entered under tho
mining Acts.
ADVERSE CLAIMS.
Adverse claimants must file . separate
and distinct claim against each application
which IL IL alleged conflicts with the prem.
ises owned by such adverse claimant.
The papers In an adverse claim once fled
cannot be withdrawn, but become part OF
the record.
When an adverse claim has been filed 1t
cannot be amended 30 - to embrace .
larger portion Of the premises than that
described In the original adverse claim.
An adverse claim must be made out In
proper form and hled In the proper local
ofico during tho period Of publication
Of the application for the patent to be
effective.
1t 10 the duty Of the adverse claimant to
commence suit In proper form within the
required time, and II he trusts the uncer-
tain medium Of the United States mail, he
must abide the consequences. should tho
delay ensue through misfortune or acci.
dent. should the failure to commence
suit be the result Of the corrupt or dishon-
est action Of his attorney, the Interior De-
partment cannot redress the wrong.
An adverse claimant should set forth In
detail the facts upon which he bases his
adverse claim. A statement In general
terms, embodying conclusions OF law.
without stating the facts specially, will not
be considered In evidence.
An adverse claimant should show com.
pliance with ths local laws In recording his
claim and in regard to expenditures, and
shall die copy Of the original notice Of
his location, and show tho nature or extent
Of tho conflict alleged.
An allegation Of parties to . suit that
they compose the company Is sufficient,
and they are not required TO prove that
they arc the original locators or the iden-
tical parties who presented tho adverse
claim.
Where land 10 Of little II any value for
agricultural purposes, but 10 essential ~
tho proper development Of mining claims,
IL should be disposed Of under the mining
Act.
Where lands containing valuable
mineral deposits have been included In an
agricultural entry. said entry will be can.
celed ct any time prior to issuance OF
patent, upon satisfactory evidence OF the
existence Of such valuable deposits.
Where valuable deposits Of mineral are
discovered upon tract after the same has
been entered a. agricultural. but before
patent has been issued. the parties claim
ing the mine may make application for
patent for same. and the agricultural entry
will be cancelled to that portion OF the land
embraced BY said mining claim.
Where mineral deposits are discovered
ON agricultural lands after tho patent has
been issued to an agricultural claimant.
they pass with the patent.
Agricultural college scrip cannot be re-
ceived in payment for claims.
ALIENS.
A foreigner may mako mining location
and dispose Of IL, provided he becomes .
citizen before iisposing Of the mine. Proof
that the party Was not citizen before dis
posing Of his claim must bs sfarmatively
Iocstors and intermediate owners other
than applicants will not be presumed
sIiens In the absence Of allegation or OBJ
lection prior TO issuance Of patent.
Tho portion Of . mining claim sold 70
an alien cannot be patented while such
owner IL an alien but on his declaration
TO become . citizen, his right dates back
to his purchase, and hs may thereupon
secure United States patent for his claim.
CROSS LxDors.
Revised Statutes. Section 2SS6.
Where two or moro ledges cross or inter-
sect each other. priority Of title shall gov
ern, and such prior location shall be enti'
tied 10 all ore or mineral contained within
the space Of intersection, but the subse.
quent location shall have the right Of way
through the space Of intersection for the