Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1882-02-03
UNITED STATES MINING LAWS.
,svo.mArIoN FOR L0CAr0Rs
AND OWNERS OF MlHEs.
Apoliessiens for Patents-How te
Deal with Cross Ledes-Tunnel
Rishss-Adverse Claims
The Law - Regard
% Aliens-Ete.
APPLICATION OF PATENT.

i Where papers have once been nleo Win
| the Register and Receiver. they become
part Of the record. and can neither be
Withdrawn nor returned. but must DO
transmitted to the General Land Once.
An application will be rejected when the
| description Of the premises IL erroneous
or insufficient. =,
Application for patent will be rejected
because:
First-The notice was published without
the knowledge Of the Register. =.
Second-The notice was not published
In = newspaper designated - published
nearest the claim.
Third-Reeord title was found detective.
and:
Fourth-A previous application had been
made for the same premises, which WAS
withdrawn pending suit In court COM
menced by the adverse claimant.
| An application for patent will be rejected
when the survey does not accurately do
| fine the boundaries Of the claim.
| Where the claim was not located In &C.
cordance 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 In
terests in mining claim, all should JOIN
In an application for patent.
A person or association may purchase ~
many placer locations a. the local law ad-
miis, and embrace them all In one appli-
cation for patent.
Two or moro lodes cannot be embraced
In one application for . patent except Tor
placer claims embracing two or moro lodes
within their boundaries.
Papers sworn to before any person pur-
porting to act as . deputy for the Register
and Receiver. cannot be recorded ~ evil
dence.
In all patents for mining claims situated
within tho interior boundaries OF town
site. q clause is inserted excepting and
excluding all town property, rights upon
tho surface. and all houses, buildings,
structures, lots. blocks. streets, alleys, or
other municipal improvements not belong.
ing to tho grantee herein. and all rights
necessary or proper to the occupation, pos
session and enjoyment Of the same"
Publication Of notice must be made In
only one newspaper for tho period OF sixty
days.
Notice must be published ten consecu-
tive weeks in weekly newspapers. and In
daily newspapers sixty days must eiapse
between the trst and the last insertions.
Where the Register designates the daily
issue Of . newspaper for publication OF
notices Of mining application for patent
IL Is not compliance with law to change
to the weekly edition OF the same paper
without authority OF the Register.
The existence OF . salt spring on . tract
Of land withdraws 10 from tho operation OF
the homestead and presumption laws. A
hearing for the purpose of proving the
| agricultural character Of such land 10 not
allowed. Land containing valuable do
posits Of slate may be entered under tho
mining Acts.
ADVERSE CLAIMS.
Adverse claimants must file separate
and distinct claim against each application
which 10 Is alleged conflicts with tue prem
ises owned by such adverse claimant.
The papers in an adverse claim once filed
cannot be withdrawn, but become part oil
the record.
When an adverse claim has been fled II
cannot be amended 80 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 proper local
Office during the period Of publication
Of the application for the patent to DO
effective.
II is the duty Of the adverse claimant to
commence suit in proper form within the
required time, and II he trusts the uncer.
tain medium Of the United States mail. he
must abide tho consequences. should the
delay ensuo through misfortune or acci.
dent. should the failure to commence
suit be the result Of the corrupt or dishon-
est action Of his attorney, the Interior De-
partmeut cannot redress the wrong.
An adverse claimant should set forth in
detail the facts upon which be bases his
adverse claim. A statement In general
terms, embodying conclusions Of law.
without stating the facts specially, will not
be considered IN evidence.
An adverse claimant should show com.
pliance with the local laws In recording his
claim and in regard to expenditures, and
shall file copy Of the original notice Of
his location, aud show the nature or extent
Of the conflict alleged.
An allegation Of parties to suit that
they compose the company Is sufficient.
and they are not required 10 prove that
they are tho original iocators or the iden-
tical parties who presented the adverse
claim.
AGRICULTURAL on MINERAL LANDS.
Where land Ia of little IL any value for
Agricultural purposes. but Is essential =.
the proper development Of mining claims,
IL should be disposed Of under the mining
Act.
where lands containing valuable
mineral deposits have been included in an
agricultural entry, said entry will be can.
celed 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 tract after the same has
been entered as agricultural. put peiore
patent mas oeen issued inc parues e'a,,n.
Ing tne mine may MAKE sPpmesuou .ol
patent ior same, ana tue asricui.uin enuy
VIII oe Cancelled 70 that poruon o' 'he iAnu
embraced oy SAID mining claim.
Mltre mineral deposits are QlHCONtItu