The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-04-17
UNITED STATES MINING LAWS.
Information for LOcatOrs and
 Owners of Mines.
Applications for Patents - How to Deal with Cross Lodes-Tunnel Ri@hts-Adverse Claims
 The Law m Regard
 to AIiens-Etc.
APPLICATION OF PATENT.

APPLICATION OF PATENT.
 When papers have once been filed with the register and receiver, they become part oftthe record, and can neither be withdrawn nor re- turned, but must be transmitted to the general An application will be rejected when the des. crigtion of the premises is erroneoas or in sufficient.
 Application for patent will be rejected be- cause:
 FirstIThe notice was published without the Knowledge of the register.
 Second-Thc notice was not published Tn claim.
 Third-Record title was found defective, and Fourth-A previous application had been made pending suit in court commenced by the ad- verse claimant.
 Auapplication for patent will be relectt d when the survey does not accurately define the bound aries of the claim.
 Where the claim was not located in accordance with 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 interests in mining claim, all shou Id join in an application for patent.
 A person or association may purchase as many placer locations as the local law admits, and embrace them all in one application for patent. Tws or more lodes can not be embraced in one
 
 embracing two or more lodes within their bound aries.
 Papers sworn to before any person purportng to act as deputy for tho register and receiver, can net be recorded as evidence.
 In all patents for mining claims situated with In the interior boundaries of q townsite, a clause is inserted excepting and excluding sll town property rights upon the surface, and all houses, buildings, structures lots, blocks, stree s, alleys or other municipal improvements not belonging to the grantee herein, and all rights necessary a,,d a,,to, ment of the same.n
 Publication of notice must be m ade in only one newspaper for the period of sixty days Notice must be published ten consecutive 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 of newspaper for pua ication of notices of a min ing application for patent it is not a compliance with law to change to the weekly edition of the same paper without authority oi the register. The existence of salt spring on tract of land withdraws 1t from the operation of the homestead and pre'emption laws. hearing for the purpose of proving the agricultural character of such land is not allowed. Land containing valuable deposits of slate may be entered under snc mining acs.
 ADVERSE CLAIMS
 Adverse claimants must file separate and dis. tinct claim against each application which it is alleged conflicts with the premises owned bJ such adverse claimant.
 The papers in an adverse claim once filed can not be withdrawn, but become part of the record. When an adverse claim has been ilsd it cannot be amended So as 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 filed in the prcper 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 com. mence suit in proper form within the required time, and if he trusts the uncertain medium Of the United States mail. he must abide the conse quences, should the delay ensue through misfor tune accident. Should the failure to com mence suit be the result of the corrupt or dishon est action of his attorney, the interior department can not 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 concll sions 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 recording his claim, and in regard to expenditures and shall file copy of the original notice of his locaeion, aud show the na ture or extent of the conflict alleged.
 An allegation of parties to a suit that they com pose the company is su mcient, and they are not required to prove that they are the original loca tors of the identical parties who presented the adverse claim.
 AGRICULTURAL OR MINERAL LANDS.
 Where land is of little if any value for agricul. tural purposes, but is essen ia for the proper de- velopment of mining claims, it should be dis posed of under the mining act.
 where lands containing ValuaDle mineral de- posits have been in ncluded in agricultural entry said entry will be cancelled at any time prior to is suance of patent, upon satis factory evidence of such valuable deposit.
 Where valuabh deposits of mineral are discov cred upon a tract after the same has been entered as agricultural but besse patent has been is sued, the parties claiming the mine may make application for patent for same and the agricul- tural entry will be canceed to that portion of the land emb aced bv said mining claim.
 Where mineral deposits are discovered on agri- cultural lands after the patent has been issued to an agricultural claimant, they pass with the pateHt.
 Agricultural college script cannot received in payment for claims.
 ALIENS.
 A foreigner may make mining location and dispose of it, provided he becomes citizen before disposing of the mine. Proof that the party was not citizen before disposing of his claim must b0 atfirmaiively shown.
 Locators and intermediate owners other than applicants will not be presumed aliens in the ab- sence of allegation or objection prior to issuance of patent
 The portion of mining claim sold to an alien cannot be patented while such owner is an alien but on hIs declaration to become a citizen, his right dates back to his purchase, and he may thercupon secure United States patent for his falm
 CROSS LoDEs.
 Revised statutes, section 283s.
 Where two or more ledges cross intersect each other, priority of title shall govern, and such pTlOr lOCatl0n small De entitled 10 all ore or mln- eral contained within the space of intersection, but the subsequent location shall have the right Of way through tbes ? ace of intersection for the purpose of the convenient working of the mine. And where two or more veins unite, the oldest or prior location shall take the vein below the point of union, including all the space of intersection.
 TUNNELS
 There Is no authority of law for tunnel loca- tion 3OOO by 1,5OO feet A proper location is the width of the tunnel for 5000 feet.
 There ' nf for no otant i'm tunnel locations, but lodes discovered in running tunnel may be patented in like manner as other lOdes.
 The right is granted to tunnel owners 10 300 of each blind lode not previously known to exist, which may be discovered in their tunnel
 When lode is struck or discovered for the first time in running tunnel, the tunnel owners have the option of recording their claim of 800 feet all on one side of the point of discovery or intersec- tion, or partly on one side thereof and partly on the other
 Prospecting for blind lodes is prohibited on the line of located tunnel, while the tunnel is in progress but other parties are in no way debarred from prospecting for blind lodes or running tun- Bels lonO they keen, without inc line of such