The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-07-21
MINING LAWS.
DoR THE INFORMATION OF
n ALL
Owners and LocatorS
OF MINES.
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS.
Tunnel Rights.
Tunnel Rights.
THE LAW IN REGARD TO ALIENS.
APPLICATION FOR PATENT.

| APPLICATION FOR PATENT
| Where papers have once been hleu with
| the Register and Receiver they become q
part of the record, and can neither DO Win
drawn nor returned, but must De LransultLeo
| to the General Land office.
An application will be rejected when the
| description of the premises IS erroneous or
| insufficient.
| because: ..L.
First-The notice was published without
| the knowledge of the Register.
Second-The notice was not published In
newspaper designated as published nearest
Third-Record of title was found defective.
Fourth--A previous application had been
made for the same premises VIII eh was with
drawn pending SUIT In court commenced oy
the adverse claimant.
An application for patent will be rejected
when the survey does not accurately dehne
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 either for that por-
tion of the claim owned by him: but where
several parties own undivided interests In
mining claim all should join in an application
for a patent
A person or association may purchase as
many placer claims as the local law admits,
and embrace them all in one application for
Two or more lodes cannot be embraced in
one application for patent except for placer
claims mbraeing two or more lodes within
their boundaries.
Pepers sworn to before any person proport-
ing to act as deputy for the Register and
Receiver cannot be recorded as evidence.
In all patents for mining cl inns situated
within the interior boundaries OF town site
a clause Is inserted excepting and excluding
I tatu tnht Ia
and all houses, buildings, structures. lots.
blocks, streets, alleys or other municipal I'M
provement not belonging 10 the guarantee
herein, and all rights necessary or proper TO
the occupation, possession or enjoyment OF
the same !"
Publication of notice must be made in only
one newspaper for the period Of sixty days.
Notice must be pub he'd ten consecutive
weeks in weekly newspapers. and IN daily
newspapers sixty days must elapse between
the frst and last insertions.
Where the Register designates the daily Is
sue OF newspaper for the publication of no
tices of o mining application for "A patent II Is
not ia com pliance with the law to change to
the weeklyedition OF the same paper with
out authority OF the Register.
The existence of a salt spring on tract OF
land withdraws il from the operation Of the
homestead and pre- emption laws. A hear
ing for the purpose Of proving tho agricul-
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 separate and
distinct claim aguinst 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 . part of
| the record
When an adverse claim has been filed 1t
| cannot be amended % as to embrace q larger
portion 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 ap-
| plicaton for the patent to be effective.
| Ii is the duty of the adverse claimant to
commerce suit in proper form within the re-
CURED time, and II be intrusts the uncertain
medium of the United States mail he must
! atide the consequences, should the delay en-
3, sue, through misfortune or accident Should
| the failure to commence suit DO the result of
| the corrupt or dishonest action OF his attor-
ney. the Interior Department cannot redress
| the wrong.
An adverse claimant should set forth in de-
| tail the fact upon which be bases his adverse
Claim. statement in general terms, en-
| b0dying conclusions of law, without stating
the facts specially, will not be considered in
| evidence
An adverse claimant should show a COM
pliance wit the local laws in recording :
shall file copy of the original notice Of his
location, and show the nature or tho extent
of the conflict allie ged.
An allegation OF parties to n suit that they
compose the company is sufficient and they
are not required to prove that they are the
original locators or the identical pa rites W no
present ted the adverse claim.
AGRICULTURAL OR MINERAL LANDS.
Where the land is of little. IL any. Value
for agricultural purposes, but is essential for
the development Of mining claims, il should
be disposed of under the Mining Act.
Where lends containing valuable mineral
deposits have been included in an agriculture
al eutry. said entry will be cancel led at any
time prior to issuance Of patent, upon salts
factory evidence of the existence of such val.
liable deposits.
Where valuable mineral deposits are dis
covered upen tract after the same Is been
entered as AGRICULTURAL, but before patent has
been issued, the parties claiming tho mine
may make application for patent for same.
and the agricultural entry will be cancelled
to that portion Of the land EN- braced by Sid
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 receiv-
ed in payment for claims.
ALIENS
A foreigner may make a mining location
and dispose of il, provided he become a citi-
zen before disp0slng of the mine. Proof that
the party was not citizen before disposing
of his claim must be affirmativeIy shown.
LoeatoTs and intermediate owners, other
than Applicants, will not be presumed aliens,