The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-07-07
MINING LAWS.
FOR THE INFORMATION OF
Owners and Locators
OF MINES.
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS.
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THE LAW IN REGARD TO ALIENS.
THE LAW IN REGARD TO ALIENS.
APPLICATION FOR PATENT.


Where papers have once been filed with
| the Register and hecelFer Ihey become
| part of the record, and can neither be with,
| drawn nor return d. but must be transmitted
| to the General Land office.
An application will be rejected when the
description Of the premises Is erroneous or
| insufficient.
AN app Iication for patent will be rejected
because: -,
First-The notice was published without
the knowledge of tho Register.
Second-The notice was not published in
newspaper designated as publish d nearest
the claim.
Third-RecOrd of title was found defective.
Fourth-A previous application had been
made for the same premises. VIII ch was with
drawn pending n 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 claim
Where the claim was not located in accord
ance with law.
Where several parties own seperate and
distinct portions Of claim. application for
patent may be made by eli her for that por-
ton 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 claims as the local law admits.
and embrace them all in enc application for
patent. :.
one application for patent except for placer
claims EN- bracing two or more lodes within
their boundaries.
Papers sworn to before any person proport-
ing to act as deputy for the Register and
Receiver cannot be recorded rs evidence.
In all patents for mining cl inns situated
within the interior boundaries Of town site
n clause is inserted excepting and excluding
all town property, rights upon the surface.
and all hunoaa hnildiuOa l0fg
blocks, streets, alleys or other municipal I'M
provement not belonging to the guarantee
herein, and all rights necessary or proper 10
the occupation, possession or enjoyment Of
the same
Publication OF notice must be made in only
one newspa per for tho period of sixty days.
Notice must be published ten consecutive
weeks in weekly newspapers. and IN daily
newspapers sixty days must elapse between
the first and last insertions.
Where the Register designates the daily Is
sue OF newspaper for the publication of noe
tees of a mining application for patent II Is
not ia compliance with tho law to change to
the weekly edition OF tho same paper with
out authority OF the Register
The existence of a salt spring on a tract OF
land withdraws il from the operation of the
homestead and presumption laws. hear
ing for the purpose Of proving the agrcul-
tural 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 seperate 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 filed,
cannot be withdrawn, but become a part OF
the record.
When an adverse claim has been filed 1t
cannot be amended % as to embrace a larger
portion Of Tho 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 APP
plicatlon for the patent 10 bs effective.
1t is tho duty of the adverse claimant to
commerce suit in proper orm within the re-
quired time. and ii be intrusts the uncertain
medium of the United States mail he must
abide the consequences, should the delay en-
sue, through misfortune or accident. Should
the failure to oInmence suit DO fhs result of
the corrupt or dishonest action OF his atfor-
ney. the Interior Department cannot redress
the wrong
An adverse claimant should set iorth in do
tail the fact upon which be bases his adverse
claim. A statement in general Terms, en-
bodying conclusions Of law, without stating
the facts specially, will not be considered in
evidence
An adverse claimant should show a COM
pliance with the local laws in recording b
claim ard in regard to expenditures, and
shall file copy OF the original notice Of his
location, and snow the nature or tho extent
of the conflict ALE ged.
An allegation OF parties to n suit that they
compose the company 10 sufficient and they
are not required to prove that they are the
original locators or the identical parties who |
presented the adverse claim.
AGRICULTURAL OR MINERAL LANDS
Where the land Is of little. If any. value |
for agricultural purposes. but is essential for |
the development of mining ell inns. il should |
be disposed Of under The Mining Act
Where lands containing valuable mineral |
deposits have been includ ID in an agricultur- |
al eutry. said entry will be cancelled at any |
time prior to issuance If patent. upon satis- |
factory. evidence Of the existence of such val |
liable deposits.
Where valuable mineral deposits are dis |
covered upen tract after the same has been |
entered as agricultural, but before pat, mt has
been issued, the parties claim g 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.
Who're 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 receiv- |
cd In payment for claims.
ALIENS
foreigner may make n mining location !
and dispose of IL, provided he become eiti- !