Tombstone epitaph., 1888-08-04
APPLICATION FOR PATENT No. Ass
Notice of Application Ofthe Great American Mining Company for Patent ts the
 Great American Mining Cla,m.

Notice of the app ication of the Great Amer ican Mining Company corporation. for pat ent for the Great American Mining Claim situa- ted in the Swisshelm mining district in the county of Cochise. Territory of Arizona.
 UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, l
 TUCSON, Arizona. June 6. 1888. [
 Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of Chapter six, of title thirty-twe of the revised statutes of the United States The Great Amer ican Mining Company claiming fifteen hundred linear feet of the Great American vein lode or deposit, bearing gold and other minerals. to- gether with surface ground six hundred feet in width; said mineral claim, vein, lode or deposit and surface ground being situated in the Swiss helm mining district, county of Cochise and Territory of Arizona, and being more particu- larly described in the official field notes and pats thereof filed in the office of the Register ef the U. S. Land office at Tucson Arizona. Be- ginning at the initial monument marking the Northerly end center of caim at post four feet long, four inches in diameter set one and . halffeet in the ground and sourrouded by . mound of stones. and marked G. A. l. M. No I thence south 4o' 90 E. variations IT. IS E soc feet to the N. E. corner of claim to a post of same height and diameter. set in the ground and surrounded by mound of stones, post marked G. A. No. 2. thence s 4o' 30 w Isoo feet to s E corner of clam. to a post of like dimensions etc. SSe ih tiiC Siouuu anu SuiiOuHOCu Dy iuO0uO of stones-post marked G. A. No. 3 thence N 49' 30 w 300 feet to the Southerly end center of claim to post of same dimensions, set in the ground and surrounded by a mound of stones marked c. A. No. 4, thence N 4o' 3o' w 300 feet to $ w corner of claim to post set in the ground and surrounded by a mound of stones post marked G. A. No. which post is also the $ E corner post of the Horn Silver Mining claim and from which post the U. s. M M No m oro rrf ,Q, f.~s thence 4o' 30 E 1890 feet to NV corner of claim to post set in the ground and surround ed by monument of stones-post marked c. A No. 6-this post is also the NE corner post of Horn Silver mining claim. thence S 4o' 3o' E BOG feet to monument and post G. A. 1. M. No. I, the place of beginning and containing 20 66- 100 acres. The said mining claim being of record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds at Tomb stone in the county and territory aforesaid. The presumed general course or direction of the said Great American mining claim. vein. lode or min- erel deposit being shown upon the plat filed with said register, as near as can be determined from present developments. this claim being for 1890 linear feet through. together with the surface ground shown upon the official plats filed as aforesaid-the said vein, lode and mining prem- ises hereby sought to be patched being bounded as follows to wit: On the Northwest by the "Horn Silver mining claim" on the Southeast by the ''Foraker Mining claim" said claim being designated as lot 4I in the official plat aforesaid. Any and all persons claiming adversely the mining ground. vein lode, premises or any DOT tion thereof so described, surveyed, platted and applied for, are hereby notified that unless their aoverse claims are duly filed according to law. and the regulations hereunder, within the time prescribed by law with the Register of the U. s. Land Office at Tucson in the Territory of An' zona, they will be bound by virtue of the provis- ions of said statute.
 Andit is hereby ordered that this notice be published for the ten consecutive weeks in the Tombstone Weekly EPITAPH, a newspaper pub. lisbed weekly at Tombstone. Cochise county the Territory of Arizona. A. D DUFF. Register.