Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-08-07
Information for Owners and LOcat0rs If Mines nes-ApplicatiOnS for Patents
 How to Deal with Cross LOdeS- runnel Rights-AdrerSe Claims The Law in Regard 10 Aliens-Ete.

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 Funnel Rights-AdrerSe Claims
 The Law in Regard to Aliens-Etc.
 APPLICATION FOR PATENT.
 Where papers have once been filed with the Register and Receiver, they become a part of the record, and can neither be withdrawn nor returned, but must be transmitted to the General Land Office.
 An application will be rejected when the description of the premises is errO- neops or insufficient.
 Application for patent will be rejected because:
 First-The notice was published with out the knowledge of the Register.
 SecOnd-Ihe notice was not published in a newspaper designated as published nearest the claim.
 Third-Record title was found defec- tisr, and:
 Fourth a previous application had been made for the same premises, which was withdrawn pending q suit in court commenced by the adverse claimant
 An application for patent will be re- jecicd when the survey does not accu- rately define the boundaries of the claim.
 Where the clam was not located in accordance with law.
 Where several parties own separate and distinct portions Of a claim, applica- tion Io- patent may be made by either for that DOT pn of the claim owned by him: iut where several parties ovI uu- divided int rests in a mn ing claim, all should jou in an application for @ ps lent.
 A person OF association may purchase as many placer locations as the local law admits, and embrace them all in one ap- phcdtion for a pateut.
 Two or more lodes cannot be embraced in one application for a patent except for two or more lOdes within their bOun- daries
 Papers sworn to before any person ?, rporting to act as a deputy for the ' gistcf and Receiver, cannot be re- e Jed 8 evidence.
 all patents for mining claims situ- a ] within the interior boundaries of a site, clause is inserted excepting
 ve'~z, ;''t tD-. proper Ut, NT1-lts upon the surface, and all houses, build incs structures, lots, blocks, streets, all ieys, or other municipal Improvements not belonging to the grantee herein, and all rights necessary or proper to the Oc- equation, possession and enjoyment of the same.
 Publication oi notice must be made in only one newspaper for the period of sixty days.
 Notice must be published ten cOnsec- utive weeks in weekly newspapers, and in daily newspapers sixty days must elapse between the first and the last In- sertiOHs
 Where the Register designates the daily issue of paper for publication of notices of a mining application for pat ent, 1t Is not a compliance with law to change to the weekly edition of the same paper without authority of the Register.
 The existence of a salt spring on tract of land wit1draws 1t from the op- eration of the homestead and pre-emp- ton laws. \ hearing for the purpose of proving the agricultural character of such land is not allowed. Land contain ing valuable deposits of slate may be en- tered under the mining Acts.
 ADVERSE CLAI5Is.
 Adverse claimants must file a separate and distinct claim against each apphca- ton which Il $ alleged conflicts with the premises owned by such adverse claim ant.
 The papers in an adverse claim once filed cannot be withdrawn, but become part of the record.
 When an adverse claim has been filed 1t cannot be amended SD as to embrace a larger portion of the premises than that described in the original adverse claim.
 An adverse claim must be made out Tn proper form and filed in the proper local office during the period of publication of the application for the patent to be effective
 It is the duty of the adverse claimant to commence suit in proper form within the required time, and If he trusts the uncertain medium of the United States mail, he must abide the consequences, should the delay ensue through mls- fortune or accident Should the failure to commence suit be the result of the corrupt or dishonest action of hls at- t0rney, the Interior Department can not redress the wrong.
 An adverse claimant should set forth in detlil the facts upon which he bases his adverse cliirn. \ statement ln gen eral terms, enbodying conclusions of law. without stating the facts specially, will not be considered in evidence.
 An adverse claimant should show a compliance with the local laws In record ing his claim and n regard to eXpendl- lures, and shall file copy of the origi- nal notice of his location. and show the nature or extent Of the conflict alleged.
 An allegation of parties to a suit that they compose the company IS sufficient, and tn are not required to prove that they de the original locators or the identical parties. who presented the ad- verse claim.
 AGRcULTURAL OR MINERAL LANDS.
 Where land IS of little if any value for agricultural purposes, but is essential to the proper development of mining claims, it should be disposed of under tie min ing Act.
 Where lands containing valuable min eral deposits have been included in an agricultural entry, said entry will be cancelet at 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 a tract after the same has been entered as agricultural, but before patent lms been issued, the parties claiming the mine may make ap- plication for patent for same, and the agricultural entry will be cancelled to that portion of the land embraced by said mining clam.
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