The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-03-13
A RULING As TO MINES.
I'm port ant Points Regarding
Assessment Work and Patent.

patent, where more than one loca
ton is included. 1t will be observed
that broad distinction is drawn
between the words location" and
"claims," and that a claim may
include number of locations
while the assessment or improve
ment work, as the case may be
applies to the claim as whole. II
is a very important ruling.
To Registers and Receivers and
Surveyors Gcneral-GENTLEMEN
/. For reasons stated in decision
dated October 81, 1885, in the case
of the Good Return Placer Mine
| (4 L. d. 22l) the Hon. Secretary OF
the Interior holds that the " "circu.
lar instructions of the 9th Decem-
ber, 1882, and the first requirement
of the circnlar of Sth of June, 1882
are erroneous, and the same are
accordingly overruled."
2. Said decision also holds
That the annual expenditure to
the amount of 800, required by
Section 1924, Revised Statutes,
must be made upon placer claims
as we'll as lode claims.
8. That compliance with the
terms Of this chapter as condi-
ton for the making of application
for patent according to section
1926, requires the preliminary
showing of work or expenditure
upon each location, sufficient to the
maintainence of possession under
section 1924, either by showing the
full amount for the pending year,
or if there has been failure it should
be shown that work has been
resumed so as to prevent relocation
by adverse parties after abandon
ment."
4. "That as section 1926 only
directs proof of expenditure to the
amount $500 by certificate of the
Surveyor General on the claim
embraced in the application for
patent, it must be error to hold
that it further requires that amount
on each individual original location,
in lieu of the amount already pro-
vided for by section 1924"
5. Registers will, therefore, before
receiving any application or permit
ting entry upon application already
made, require satisfactory prelim-
mary showing of work or expendi-
ture, under paragraph three hereof,
upon or for the benefit of each
location embraced in the claim,
which may, where the matter is
un0uestioned, consist of the appll-
cant, clearly and specifically setting
out all the FACTS constituting the
compliance with the law by himself
or grantors. Where application is
made by an incorporated company,
or where an applicant satisfactorily
shows by affidavit that he is not
personally acquainted with the
facts, the applicants affidavit may
be made by the duly authorized
agent who has such knowledge,
but whether made by principal or
agent it must be specifically and
fully corroborated by the afiidavits
of at least two disinterested and
credible witnesses familiar with the
facts. This showing must include
the year in which the application
for patent is filed. The evidence
specified in paragraph thirty-two of
circular N of October 81, 1881,
will still be required. Where the
abstract of title is dated prior to
the date of filing the application
for patent, a continuation OF the
abstract to and including such
date must be filed before the appli-
cant is allowed to make entry.
6. Where application for a pat
ent embraces several locations or
claims HELD IN COMMON, conslitut-
ing one entire claim, whether lode
or placer. and expenditure of $500,
under section 1925, Revised Stat
utes, upon such entire claim
embraced in tho application will be
sufficient and need not be shown