Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-02-24
MISCELLANEOUS.
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FOR.
OWNERS AND L0CkT0RS
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APPLICATION FOR PATENT.

APPLICATION FOR PATENT.
Where papers have once been filed with the
Register and Receiver they become o part OF
the record, and can neither be w1thdrawn nor
returned, but must be transmitted to the Cen
eral Land Office.
An application will be rejected when the de-
scription OF the premises Is erroneous or IN
sufficient.
application for patent will be rejected be-
cause:
First The notice was published without the
knowledge of the Register.
Second-The notice was not published in q
new spsper designated as published nearest the
claim.
Third-Record title was found defective.
and
Fourth-A previous application had been
made for the same premises, which was with
drawn pending a suit in Court commenced by
the adverse claimant.
An application for patent will be rejected
when the survey does not accurately define the
boundaries OF the claim.
Where the claim was not located In accord
ance with law.
tlnct portions Of q claim, application for
patent may be made by either for tnat portion
Of the claim owned by him: but where several
parties own undivided interests in . mining
claim all should join In an application for q
| 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 q patent except for placer
claims embracing two or more loaes within
| their boundaries.
Papers sworn to before any person purport-
ing 10 act as 9 deputy for the Register and Re-
| ceiver cannot be recorded as evidence.
In all patents for mining claims situated
within the interior boundaries of q town site
9 clause Is inserted excepting and excluding
| all town property, rights upon the surface,
and all houses, buildings, structures, lots,
blocks, streets, alleys or other municipal i'm
provements not belonging 70 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 a only
one newspaper for the period Of co days.
Notice must be published 10 consecutive
weeks in weekly newspapers. and in daily
newspapers 60 days must elapse between the
frat and last insertions.
Where the Register designstes the daily issue
of a newspaper fer publication of notices Of 3
mining application for patent ii Is not a com
pliance with law to change to the weekly edi-
lion Of the same paper without authority OF
the Register.
The existence Of o salt spring on 3 tract of
land withdrsws 1t from the operation Of the
homestead and presumption laws. A hearing
for the purpose of proving the agricultural
character Of such land 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 claim against each application which
IT is alleged conflicts with the premises owned
| by such adverse claimant.
The papers In an adverse claim, once fled,
cannot be withdrawn, but becomes a part Of the
record.
When an adverse claim has been fled ii can
not be amended so as to embrace a larger per-
ton 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 sppii-
cation for the patent TO be effective.
1t is the duty Of the adverse aiman TO
commence suit in proper form within the re-
CURED time, and IL he trusts ,he uncertain
medium Of the United States mall he must
abide the consequences, should the delay
ensue, through misfortune or aecident. Should
the failure to commence suit be the res IL Of
the corrupt or dishonest action Of his attorney,
the Interior Department csnnot 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, embpdy-
ing conclusions OF law, without stating the
facts specially, will not be considered Ia evil
denee.
An adverse claimant should show q compii-
ance with the local laws In recording his claim
and In regard to expenditures. and shall nile q
copy Of the original notice Of hts location, and
show the nature or extent Of the conflict
alleged.
An allegation Of parties to 8 suit that they
compose the company is sufficient, and they
are not required to prove that they are the
original ~locstors or the Identical parties who
present the adverse claim.
AGRICULTURAL OR MINERAL LANDS.
Where land is of little, If any value, for agri-
cultural purposes, but Is essential to the
proper development Of mining claims, Ii
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 ~ 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
entered 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-
ceiyed In payment for claims.
ALIENS.
A foreigner may make a mining location and
dispose OF 1t. provided he becomes q citizen
before disposing of the mine. Proof that the
party was not 9 citizen before disposlng of his
Claim must be afirmatively shown.
Locators and intermediate owners, other
IMAM applicants, will not be presumed aliens,
IN tne absence II allegation or objection prior
TO issuance Of patent.
the portion Of a mining claim sold to an
alien cannot be patented while such owner is
an allen; but on his declaration to become q
cItzen his right dates back to his purchase,
ana he may thereupon secure United States
patent for his claim.
CROSS LFDGEs.
revised Statutes. Section 1896:
where two or more lodges cross or intersect
eacn other, priority Of title shall govern, and
such prior location shall be entitled to all ore
OF mineral confined within the space of inter-
sscuon, put the subsequent location shall have
sne right Of way through the space Of inter
secI,on ir the purpose Of the convenient
working OF the mine. And where two or more
veins unite the Oldest or prior location shall
s1ns .ne vein below the point of union, In
siuuihe al the space of intersection.