Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-11-11
GMPORTANTTO LANDOWNERS.
\ Circular From the Surveyor General Regarding Locations of Lode Claims, and tLe Survey OFSanae for Pat
 ent.
[. S. SURVEYOR GENERALS OFFICE,

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 |. $. SURVEYOR GENERALS OFFICE,
 TUCsoN, 4. T., Nov. 6, 1882.
 Section 232O, U. $. Revised Statutes is as follows:
 Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock ill place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper or other valuable deposits, heretofore located, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations and laws in force at the date of their loca- tion. A mining claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, whether located by one or more persons, may equal, but shall not exceed, one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or lode; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regula- tion to less than twenty-five feet on each side of tha middle of the vein at the sur face, except where adverse rights exist ing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, render such limitation necessary, The end line of each claim shall be parallel to each oth- er
 And section 10 of the Land Office regu- lations reads:
 "Wlth regard to the extent of surface ground adjoining a vein or lode, ard claimed for the convenient working there of, the Revised Statutes provide that the lateral extent after May 10, 1872, shall be limited by any mining regulations to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, ex- cspting when adverse rights existing on the 10th of May, 1882, may render such limitation necessary; the end lines of such claims to be in all cases parallel to each other Said lateral measurements cannot extend beyond three hundred feet on either side of the middle of the vein at the surface, or such distance as IS allowed by local laws For example: 400 feet cannot bs taken on one side and 200 on the other. If, however, 300 feet on each side are allowed, and by reason of prior claims but 100 feet can not be restricted to less than 300 feet on the other side; and when the locator does not determine by exploration where the middle of the vein at the surface is, his discovery shaft must be assumed to mark such point" The General Land Office requires strict observance of its construction of the law as given in section 10 already quoted and the rule is binding no less upon thls office, than upon all claimants to mineral lands.
 Parties desiring official surveys of their claims prior to making application for patent, would do well to acquaint them selves with the law and regulations, pre- vious to making application for survey, [ for no survey of q lode mining claim will be approved by this office which does not show 8 compliance with the provisions of law and regulations given above, and ia not ln other respects correct.
 Surveys returned to this office which do not fulfill the above requirements, are disapproved aud transmitted to claiman with a statement of the reason for disap- proval; and unless additional develop ments be made by them, disclosing the vein in the required position, the survey must be amended, by order of this office and at request Of claimant, 50 that the lateral measurements may not exceed the length allowed by law, on either side ot the middle of the vein at the surface. This office is allowed no discretion in the above matters, and applicants for survey would save themselves delay and extra expense, and relieve this office of much annoyance by developing the vein in the required position before making applica- tion for survey, or be excluding from their surveys any excess of the surface ground allowed by law on either side of the mid die of vein at the surface, in all cases where the vein is not disclosed in the proper position within the location.
 J. w. ROBBINS,
 U S. Surveyor General.