Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-11-12
IMPORTANT TO MINE OWNERS.
\ Circular From the Surveyor General Re
 garding Locations of Lode Claims, and
 the Survey of same for Patent.
[. s. SURVEYOR GENERALS OFFICE,
 TuCsoS. 4. T.. Nov. G, 1882 [

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 IU. s. SURVEYOR GENERALS OFFICE,
 TUcsoS, 4. T., Nov. 6, 1882
 Section 2320, U. $. Revised, Statutes i:
 as follows:
 Mining claims upon veins or lOdes of quartz or other rock in 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 location. A mining claim loca- ted after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, whether lOca- ted by one or more persons, may equal, but shall not exceed, one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or lode; but DO 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 regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each sIde of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing 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 other"
 And section 10 of the Land Office re- gulations reads:
 With regard to the extent of surface l ground adioiRing a vein or lode, and | claimed for the convenient working l thereof, the Revised Statutes provide | that the lateral extent of locations of veins or lodes made after May 10, 1872, | shall in no case exceed three hundred | feet on each side of the middle of the yeIn at the surface, and that no such surface rights shall be limited by any regulations to less than twenty five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, excepting when adverse rights existing on the 10th of May, 1872, may render such limitation necessary; the end lines of such claims to be in all cases parallel to each other. Said lateral measurements cannot ex- tend beyond three hundred feet on either side of the middle Of tho vein at he surface, or such distance as IS illowed by local laws. For example: iOO feet cannot be taken on one s de l md 2DO feet on the other. If, however, 'OO feet on each side are allowed, and by { eason of prIOr claims but 100 feet can . ,e taken Cn one side, the locator wlll lot be restricted to less than 300 feet on he other side; and when the locator ! Ioes not determine by exploration C Fhere the middle of the vein at the { urface is, his discovery shaft must be | ssumed to mark such polnt." : The General Land Office requires a | trict observance of its construction of \ he law as given in section 10 already D uoted, and the rule is binding no less ( pon this office, than upon all claimants c 3 mineral lands. ! Parties desiring official surveys of {, leIr claims prior to making application h Ir patent, would do well to acquaint h with the law and regula- F ons, previous to making application IT survey, for no survey of lode min D ig claim will be approved by this of r ce which does not show a compliance s, ith the provisions of law and regula- e ons given above, and IS not, in other A, ,spects correct. cl Surveys returned to this office winch T 9 not fulfill the above requirements, are h. sapprOved and transmitted claimants ri ith n atata-qo-,t of tho 5aasone for lis- ! le vein in the required position, the tl lrvey must be amended, by order of 8 lis office and at request of claimant, 30 sI lat the lateral measurements may not h lceed the length allowed by law, on ti ther side Of the middle of the vein at al le surface. This office Is allowed no h secretion in the above matters, and ap- icants for survey would save them fc lives delay and extra expense, and re- W eve this office of much annoyance by al aveloping the vein in the required pO- " ton before making application for al lrvey, or by excluding from their sur sys any excess of the surface ground r' lowed by law on either side If the n fiddle of vein at the surface, in all n lses where the vein Is not disclosed m t, ie proper position within the location
 J. W. ROBBINS,
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