The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-12-28
How to Get a Patent.

This part of the mining law has been
published more than once, but as many
prOspectOrs propose to patent their pro
perties this winter, it may not be out
place to reproduce it. Prospectors
will do well to cut this out and pre-
serve it:
"a patent for any land claimed and
located for valuable deposits may be OBJ
tained in the following manner: Any
person. ASSOCIATION or corporation au-
thoriZed to locate a claim under this
chapter, having claimed and located a
piece of land for such purposes, who
has or shall haye complied with II fe
terms of this chapter, may file in the pro-
per land Office an application for pat
ent, showing such compliance, together
with plat and field notes of the claim
or claims in common, made by or un-
der the the direction of the United
States Surveyor General, showing ac-
cdI ately the boundaries of the claim or
claims, which shall be distinctly mark
ed by monuments on the ground. and
shall post copy of such plat, together
with a notice Of such application for a
patent, in a conspicuous place ON the
land embraced in such plat previous to
the filing of the application for pat
ent, and shall file an affidavit of at least
two persons that such notice has been
duly posted, and shall file copy of the
notice in such land office, and shall
thereupon be entitled to patent for
the land in the following manner:
The register of the land Office. upon the
filing of such application, plat, field
notes, notices and atfiidavltS shall pub
lish notice that such application has
been made, for the period ofsixty days,
in newspaper to be by him designat-
ed as published nearest to such claim /;
and he shall also publish such notice
in his office for the same period. The
claimant at the time of filing this ap-
pllcation, or at any time thereafter,
within sixty days of publication, shall |
hle with the register a certificate of
the United States SurI eyor General that
five hundred dollars worth of labor
has been expended or improvements
made upon the claim by himself or
grantors; that the plat is correct,
with such further description by such
reference to natural objects or perma-
nent monuments as shall identity the
claim. and furnish an accurate des-
crlption, to be incorporated IN the pat
ent AT the expiration of sixty days
of publication the claimant shall file
his affidavit, showing that the plat and
notice have been posted in conspicu-
Gus place on the claim during such
period of publication. If no adverse
claim shall have been iiled with the
register and the receiver of The proper
land Office at the expiration of sixty
days of publication, it be assumed
ed that the applicant shall is entitled
to patent upon the payment to the
proper officer of FIVE dollars per acre,
and that no adverse claim exists; and
thereafter no objections from third
parties to tho issuance of a patent shall
be heard, except it be shown that the
applicant has failed to comply with
the terms Of this chapter. Where the
claimant for a patent is not a resident
of or within the land district wherein
the vein, lode, or ledge or deposit
sought to be patented is located, the
application for patent and the affidavits
are re required to be made by his, her or
its authorized agent, where said agent
is conversant with the facts sought to
be established"