Tombstone epitaph., 1888-07-07
UNITED STATEs LAND OFFICE,

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 TUCSON. Arizona, June 6. A D. 1888.
 No'ice is hereby given that in pursuance of chapter six. of title thirty-two of the Revised Statu'es of the U, S, the Great American Min ing company, corporation, claiming fifteen hundred linear feet o the Horn Silvr minin, claim, vein. lode or mineral deposit, bearing gold, silver and other minerals with surfrce ground six hundred feet in width lying and being within the Swisshem mining district. in the County of Cochise and Territory of Arizona. are about to make application to the United States for patent for the said mining clam, which is mere fully described, as to metes and bo nds by the official plat and field notes oi survey now on file with the Register of the U ;. land Office, at Tucson. Arizona which field notes describe the boundaries and ex ent said claim on the surface with nIag eic varia ion at IT. IS east. as follows: Beginning at the iniLal monument, marking the northerly end center Of claim at post four feet long, .oui inches in diameter, set one foot in the ground and surrounded by a mound of stones, post marked H. $. NJ. No. I; thence 4q' 3o E variation IF IS E 300 feet to N E corner of claim to post of like size. height etc., as th, other, and marked on w side H. $, No. D. this post is also the NV corner of the Grtat American mining claim thence s 4oe 30 w 1900 feet to the 5 E corner of claim at post marked on W side H $ No 3. which is also tn, 5 w corner of the Great American mining claim and from which post the U. & NJ M No I, 5 D bears $ a5' SO w 3S3c feet; thence N 4o 30 w to the southerly end center of claim 10 post marked H $ No 4; thence N 4o' ,o w 300 feet to the $ w corner of claim to post marked II 5 No 5; thence N 4o' 30 fifteen hundred .eet to the N w corner of clain at post marked H 5 No 6; thence s 4o0 30 300 feet to monument and post H l NJ No I, the place of beginning and containing 20 6o acres he said mining claim being of record Tn 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 Horn Silver mining claim, ven lode o mineral depo it Icing shown upon the plat filed With the Register afores iid, as near as can De determined by present developments. This claim being for 1900 linear feet thereof together with the surface ground shown on said official plat filed as aforesaid; the sgid vein lode and mining claim hereby sough; to be p,t nted b.ing bounded as follows. .to-wit: On the > by the Great American mining claim; sad claim being desienated as lot No 4a, on tn. official plat aforesaid.
 Any all persons claiming adversely the min ing ground, vein. lode, premises or any portion thereof so described, surveyed, plated and ap- piled for are hereby notified that unless their adverse aims are duly filed according to law, and the regulations theieunder, within the time prescribed by law, with the Register of the U $. Land Office at Tucson, Arizona they will be barred by virtue of the provisions of said statute.
 And hereby order that this notice be pub. lished for ten consecutive weeks in the Tomb stone EPiTAPH, newspaper published weekly at Tombstone, Arizona.
 A. D. DUFF, Register