Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-04-22
APPLICATION FOR PATENT.

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Where the claim was not located in accord.
ance with law.
Where several parties own separate and dis
tinct portions of q claim, application for
patent may be made by either for tn at portion
OF the claim owned by him: but where several
parties own undivided interests in . mining
claim all should join In an application for .
patent.
A person or association may purchase as
many placer locations as the local law admits,
and embrace them all In one application for Q
patent.
Two or more lodes cannot be embraced In
one application for a patent except for placer
claims embracing two or more lodes within
their boundaries.
Papers sworn to before any person purport-
ing to act as q deputy for the Register and He
ceiver cannot be recorded ss evidence.
In all patents for mining claims situated
within the interior boundaries of O town site
9 clause is Inserted excepting and excluding
al town property, rights upon the surface,
and all houses, buildings, structures, lots,
blocks, streets, alleys or other municipal Inn
provements not belonging to the grantee here
in, and all rights necessary or proper to the
occupation, possession and enjoyment Of the
same"
Publication of notice must be made n only
one newspaper for the period of 60 days.
Notice must be published 10 consecutive
weeks in weekly newspapers, and in daily
newspapers so days must elapse between the
fret and last insertions.
Where the Register designAtes the daily issue
of q newspaper fer publication of notices of 8
pliance With law 10 change to the weekly edi-
ton OF the same paper without authority Of
the Register.
The existence of o salt spring on & tract OF
land withdraws 1t from the operation of the
Homestead and presumption laws, A hearing
for the purpose Of proving the agricultural
character Of such lane is not allowed. Land
containing valuable deposits Of slate may be
entered under the mining Acts.
ADVERSE CLAIMS.
Adverse claimants must file q separate and
distinct clsim against each application which
1t 10 alleged conflicts with the premises owned
by such adverse claimant.
The papers in an adverse claim, once filed
cannot be withdrawn, but become g part of the
record.
When an adverse claim has been filed 1t can.
not be amended SO as to embrace q larger per-
ton Of the premises than that described in the
original adverse clsim.
An adverse claim must be made out in
proper form and filed In the proper local office
during the period of publication Of the sppli-
cation for the patent to be effective.
1t is the duty Of the adverse claimant TO
commence suit In proper form within the re-
CURED time, and IL he trusts the uncertain
medium of the United States mail he must
abide the consequences, should the delay
ensne, through misfortune or accident. Should
the failure to suit be the result of
the corrupt or dishonest action of his attorney.
the Interior Department cannot redress the
wrong.
An adverse claimant should set forth in de-
tail the facts upon which he bases his adverse
claim. A statement in general terms, embody-
ing conclusions Of law, without stating the
facts specially, will not be considered In evil
dence.
An adverse claimant should show Q compli-
ance with the local laws in recording his claim
and In regard to expenditures. and shall ME n
copy Of the original notice of his location, and
show the nature or extent OF the conflict
alleged.
An allegation Of parties to q suit that they
compose the company is sufficient, and they
are not required to prove that they are the
original ~locators or the identical parties who
present the adverse claim.
AGRICULTURAL Or MINERAL LANDS.
Where land is of little, II any value, for agri.
cultural purposes, but is essential to the
proper development Of mining claims, it
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 cancelled sc any time
prior to issuance of patent, upon satisfactory
evidence Of the existence OF such valuable de-
posits.
Where valuable deposits Of mineral are dis
covered Upon q tract sfter the same has been
On tered as agricultural, but before patent has
been issued, the parties claiming the mine
may make application for patent for same,
and the agricultural entry will be cancelled to
that portion OF the land embraced by said
mining claim.
Where mineral deposits are discovered on
agricultural lands after the patent has been
issued to an agricultural claimant, they pass
with the patent.
Agricultural College scrip cannot be re-
ceived in payment for claims.
ALIENS.
A foreigner may make q mining location and
dispose OF it. provided he becomes q citizen
before disposing of the mine. Proof that the
party was not Q citizen before disposing of his
claim must be affrmatively shown.
Locators and Intermediate owners. other
than applicants, will not be presumed aliens,
in the absence Of allegation or objection prior
to issuance of patent.
The portion of q mining claim sold to an
alien cannot be patented while such owner Is
an alien; but on his declaration TO become 9
citizen his right dates back TO his purchase,
and he may thereupon secure United States
patent for his claim.
CROSS LEDaEs.
Revised Statutes. Section 1885:
Where two or more lodges cross or intersect
each other, priority of title shall govern. ana
such prior location shall be entitled to all ore
or mineral contsined within the space of inter-
section. but the subsequent location shall have
the right Of way through the space OF inter.
section for the purpose OF the convenient
working Of the mine. And where two or more
veins unite the oldest or prior location shall
take the vein below the point Of union, In
Guiding all the space Of intersection.
TUNNELS.
There is no authority Of law for a tunnel
location 5000 by 800 feet. A proper location
is the width Of the tunnel for 5000 feet.
There ts no provision OF law for patenting
tunnel locations, but lodes discovered in run
ming q tunnel may be patented in like manner
az other lodes.
The right Is granted to tunnel owners to
l,bo0 feet Of each blind lode. not previously
known to exist, which may be discovered In
their tunnel.
When . lode ia struck or discovered for the
first time In running . tunnel the tunnel
owners have the option of recording their
claim OF ] 500 feet all on one side OF the point
OF discovery or intersection. or partly on one
side thereof and partly on the other.
Prospecting for blind lodes is prohibited on
the line Of a located tunnel while the tunnel
Is in progress. but other parties are In no way
debsrred from prospecting for blind lodes or