The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-07-14
MINING LAWS.
NOR THE INFORMATION OF
ALL
Owners and Locators
OF MINES.
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS.
Tunne1 Rights.
THE LAW IN REGARD TO ALIENS.
APPLICATION FOR PATENT.

APPLICATION FOR PATENT.
Where papers have once been flea with
| tho Register and Receiver they become
| part of the record, and can neither De Win,
| drawn nor returned, but must be transmitted
| to the General Land office. IT.
| An application Will DC rejected WREN INC
| description of the premises is erroneous or
| insufficient. ,,,,
An application for patent will be rejected
because: .,.,, :.L.
First-The notice was published without
| the knowledge of the Register,
'n SacondET6e notice was not published in a
newspaper designated as published nearest
Third-Record of title was found defective,
Fourth-A previous application had been
made for the same premises. VIII CHI was with
drawn pending u 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.
distinct portions of claim, application for
patent may be made by either 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 q patent.
A person or association may purchase as
many placer claims as the local law admits,
and embrace them all in one 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 as evidence.
In all patents for mining cl4ims situated
within the interior boundaries of a town site
clause is inserted excepting and excluding
80 al. 4fnstfa
and all houses. buildings, structures, lots.
blocks, streets. alleys or other municipal I'M
provement not belonging to the guarantee
herein, and all rights necessary or proper to
the occupation, possession or enjoyment oil
the same.o
Publication of notice must be made in only
one newspaper for the period of sixty days.
Notice must be published ten consecutive
weeks in weekly newspapers; and 10 daily
newspapers sixty days must elapse between
the first and last insertions.
Where tho Register designates the daily Is
sue of O newspaper for the publication OF mo-
tees of mining application for patent II Il
not ia compliance with the law 20 change to
the weekly edition of tho same paper with
out authority the Register.
The existence of a salt spring on tract oil
land withdraws it from the operation OF the
homestead and presumption laws; a hear
| ing for the purpose Of proving the agricnl-
| 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 a 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 part of
| the record.
cannot be amended SO as to embrace larger
| portion of the premises than that deScii bed
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
plication for the patent to be effective.
1t is the duty of the adverse claimant to
commerce suit in proper form within the re-
Quired time. and If 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 commence suit BIO the. result Of
the corrupt or dishonest action of his attor-
ney, the Interior Department cannot redress
the wrong.
AL adverse claimant should set forth in de-
tail the fact upon which he 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 h s
claim and in regard to expenditures, and
snail HE u copy OF the original n0t1c0 OF his
location, and show the nature or the extent
of the conflict alleged.
An allegation of parties TO n suit that they
compose the company is sufficient and they
: are not required to prove that they arc the
+. original locators or the identical parties who
presented 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, it should
be disposed of under the Mining Act.
Where lands containing valuable mineral
deposits have been included in an agriculture
al eutry, said entry will be cancelled at any
J time prior TO issuance of patent, upon salts
! factory evidence of the existence OF such val
liable deposits.
J Where valuable mineral deposits are dis
covered upen a tract after 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 EN- braced by said
mining claim.
Where mineral deposits are discovered on
agricultural lands after the patent has been
issued to an agricultural claimant, they pass
r with the patent.
Agricultural College scrip cannot be receiy.
cd in payment for claims.
ALIENS
A foreigner may make a mining location
Q and dispose OF II, provided he become a citi-
zen before disposing Of the mine Proof that
the party was not citizen before disposing