The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-11-26
IMPORTANT RULINGS.
Mining Points Decided in the U. O..
District Court for California.


The Act of Congress of May 10,
1872, authorizes claim to be located
1900 feet in length along the vein,
and in The absence of any local rule
or custom, the width of such claim
may be- extended 800 feet on each
! side OF the middle of the vein; but
said Act of Congress, by implication,
authorizes the miner to limit the
width of such claims to twenty-five
vein.
No rights can be acquired under the
statute by location before the discov-
cry of the vein or lode within the
limits OF the claim located.
A location Is made valid by the dis
coyery ri vein or lode at any time
after the location, provided that such
discovery Is made before any rights
are acquired in the same claim by
other persons.
A vein or lode authorized TO be To-
Gated In seam or fissure in the
earth's crust, filed with quartz or
some other kind OF rock in place, fill
with gold, silver or other valuable
ihtACAhA dOpOSAbS III btlC Sbab-
ute. 1t may be very thin, or many
feet thick, or irregular in thickness,
aud IL may be rich or poor, provided
1t contains any OF the metals named
in the statute. But it must be more
than detached pieces of quartz not i'll
place.
A location of mining claim must
be definitely marked on the ground
so that its boundaries can be readily
traced, hut the law does not define or
prescribe what kind Of marks should
claim they shall be placed Any
marking on the ground claimed by
stakes, mound or written notices
whereby the boundaries can be read
lily traced, Is sufficient.
The law OF Congress requires no
record oi mining claim, except i'll
obedience to valiu local rules oi GUS
tams of miners, but when such local
rules or customs require "A record, II
must contain the names OF The loca-
tors, the date OF the Location and such
"A description OF The claim by refer
eacc 10 SOME natural objects or per-
niaile at monunenls as will Identity
The claim, but such natural objects or
permanent monuments are not re-
quIred 10 be Oh Inc ground located,
although they may be: and the nat
ural object may consist OF any fixed
natural object, and such permanent
monument may consist OF promi-
nent post or stake irmly planted in
the ground, or shaft sunk III the
ground. II, by reference 10 any such
natural object or permanent monu-
menl Lhe claim recorded can be iden-
titled with any reasonable certainty,
the record will be sufficient in this
particulr, otherwise not.
When one person or company owns
several contiguous claims, capable of
being advantageously worked togeth-
or, n general system may be adopled to
WORK such claims; aud work done ac-
cording TO such system for the pur-
pose of prospecting or working al,
such contiguous claims, although uone
ON only one OF such claims, or even
outside of all OF them, Is available to
hold all such contiguous claims In
tended to be worked or prospected by
such general system.
The statute requires 500 worth OF
work on each claim located after May
10, 1872, In each year, and in default
thereof, authorizes the claim TO be To-
Gated by other parties, provided the
first locator has not resumed work
upon il. But II the first locator re-
sumes work at any time after the ex-
piration of the year, and before any
relocation is made, he thereby pre-
serves his claim; the statute nowhere
authorizes tresspass upon, or relo-
cation of claim before located by
another, however derelict In perform
ing the required work the first loca-
tor may have been, provided he has
returned and resumed work, and is
actually engaged in developing his
claim at the time the second locator
enters and attempts to secure the
claim.
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