Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-05-08
Application for Patent.
q. s. LAND OP7IcE BoIsE CITY, l
April IL, 1855.

N Office is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE ELMI-
III ra Silver Mining Company, by John Brown its
President and General Manager, whose postofice
address 10 Banner, Idaho Territory. has made
application for United States P1tent for the
Banner Lode and Mill site,
situate in Banner Mining District. Boise County
Idaho Tereitory, consisting Of 1900 linear feet Of
tI lode and surface ground, coo feet wide, being
Lot No. 81 A, aud I'VE acres Of non-mineral land
not contiguous to said lode. for mill site, being
Lot No. 81 B. both described in the field notes and
plat Of the official ey file in this office with
magnetic variation 10 deg 80 min. East follows:
Commencing At 2 stake or post on which i posted
the notice Of relocation. at point Que hundred
feet in westerly direction from the shaft sunk on
said lode, known AS the '.Oid Banner shafG,r OF
'discoyeay shaft" and running thence in east
erly direction 1900 feet to similar stake post
the line oil said lode marked East Center Stake,
together with 600 feet in width the entire length of
said claim, being 300 feet width each side from
the center or middle of said lode, at the surface,
fellows:
Commencing at the west end center post or stake
on which Is posted the original notice Ct re-locaen,
by the Elmira Silver Mining Company and running
thence in southerly direction 800 feet to post
marked IS. W. thence running in easferly di-
rectIon 1896 feet to post marked IS. thence in
northerly direction across the east centsr end
post or stake 600 feet to post marked IN. e.
thence in a westerly direction 1890 feet to post
marked IN W = thence in sontheriy direction
300 feet to west center end post or STAKE the place
Of beginning.
This location also covers and includes what is
known as the big Groupings" and said mine or
Banner lode, being situated about 80 miles in a
nerth easterly direction from Idaho City, and about
one mile IN north easterly direction from the
steam quartz mill owned by the Elmira Silver Min
ing Company. Also the mill site which stands
the Banner Mill and known the Banner Mil site
located III triangular shape Immediately above the
l. nction of what formerly called Wolverine
Gulch and Smiths Fork and between them, des
| cribed as follows
Beginning at the junction of the right fork Of
Bear Greek with the Main Greek 1t post running
thence N % deg. 50 min, E. 40 feet to post
thence N 81 deg + 255 feet to post thence South
26 deg 10 min. T. 54.5 feet TO another post with
mound of stone il the bed of the right fork O
Bear Greek thence n. SO deg. 03 nn W. down along
south side of ai site 100 feer to the place of be
ginning. embracing an of five acres, the north
line OF said mill site being 39507 feet distant from
the soath west corner of the banner lode surface
ground.
| Said Mining Claim and Mill site being of record
in the Office of the County Recorder at Idaho City
| in the county and territory aforesaid.
/ The nearest known location being the Silye Chic
/ Mining lode or Claim which joins the said Banner
| claim on the West.
| EpwD. l. Curtis,
Register.
direct that this notice be published in the Idaho
World, the newspaper published nearest said min
| ing claim, for the period of sixty days.
EDwD. L. CURTIS.
Register.
Idaho City. April l6 IS. I'm.