The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-05-24

Gator Of mining claim, in marking his
claim ON the ground SO that its bounda-
ries can be readily traced, is not held to
absolute exactness in running the lines
or in fixing the corner or other posts. The
difference of few feet or few points
between the monuments fixed by the ac-
tual survey for patent and those fixed
at the time of location is immaterial, and
does not affect the validity of the original
location. The location upon a vein or
lode finds its apex will not be defeated
by the secret, unless underground work.
ings and possessions by parties having no
possession of or right to the surface en-
bracing it. The possession of vein rec.
ognized by the mining laws, and to which
protection is given, is possession by one
who holds the surface where the vein
makes its apex. The location of min.
ing claim is sufficiently definite when the
accessible boundaries thereof are plainly
marked on the ground by stakes and nat.
ural objects, and inaccessible boundaries
described by courses and distances suffici-
emily to point out to any one honestly
endeavoring to ascertain where such
boundaries were. The right of the occu-
pants of mining grounds ON the public
domain will be upheld, when the appro-
priation thereof has been made by means
which substantially comply with the law,
and which in view of the surrounding
circumstances, convey notice to those who
have right to know that the particular
mining ground is subject to the dominion
and control of some private persons
Exchange.
To MEASURE THE HIGHEST THEEs.
Woods and Forests, an English journal,
says: Any person, however ill-informed,
might easily get at the exact hight of a
tree when the sun shines, or during bright
moonlight, by marking two lines on the
ground, three feet apart, and then placing
in the ground on the line nearest to the
sun stick that shall stand exactly three
feet out of the soil. When the end of the
shadow of the stick exactly touches the
furtherest line, then also the shadow of
the tree will be exactly in length the same
measurement Of its hight Of course, in
such case, the sun will be an exact
angle of forty.fve degrees. Measure.
ments OF this character could be best eff
fected in the summer, when the sun is
powerful, has reached to good hight in
the heavens, and when the trees are
clothed with living green, so as to cast a
dense shadow. To many to whom this
idea may not have occurred, it might be
made annually matter Of interest thus
on warm summer days to take the hight
of prominent trees, and so to compare
growth from year to year.
WATER will not be scarcity this year.
There are now a large body flowing down
from this neighborhood into the Virgin.
If man desires taking trip down to
Arizona, and obtain free transportation,
all he has to do is to throw plank into
the stream, jump aboard, and away he
sails on his journey to the Rio Virgin,
thence into the Colorado at the mouth Of
Grand Canyon. And if he SO wishes, he
can sail on down into the Gulf of Cali
fornia, out into the Pacific Ocean, where
he can cast his hook and line into the
briny deep and catch sperm-whales for a
living.
MICHAEL SULLIVAN, convicted of MUIR
der in the second degree at Beaver, Utah,
for the killing Of Scannell at Frisco, was
sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment
in the Territorial penitentiary. Even
the Utah Judges are now doing their
duty. Not long ago, when man in that
Territory was convicted of murder in the
second degree, he generally received from
two to four years in the pen. The effect
of the riot at Cincinnati has worked good
throughout the whole of the land, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific.
BALKY HORSE. An exchange tells how
to treat balky horses as follows: Take a
good, reliable horse good puller-and
the balky one. Put similar harness on
the two, attach them together and start
them in opposite directions. At first the
balky horse will allow himself to be
dragged backwards, but soon he will tire
of this, and commence to pull in good
earnest, and after that he will never re.
fuse to do his duty.
For the past four or five days, when.
ever the sun was shining, there would be
a large number of butterflies, of the
specie known as the tortoise back, flying
down Main street, or, as it were, from
south to north. What does this indi.
cate? Can the wise men of the town
give any explanation why this is thusly!
HANK CHAMBERLAIN, who sold out his
place in Eagle Valley some six years ago
and went to Washington Territory, and
several others who did likewise, are now
thinking of returning to this country.
They are willing to desert Gods country
and come back to God's.forsaken country.
MANY of the Mormons who went to
Arizona, by order of the Church, owing
to not getting along well, have become
dissa tis6ed and contemplate returning te
| Utah. Such is tale of one of thu
dearly Beloved" as he passed ur
through this country on his way back.