Tombstone epitaph., 1888-08-11
APPLICATION FOR PATENT 10. Sss
NOfice of Application ofthe Great Auerieeu Mining Company for Patent te the
 Great American Mining Cla,m.

Notice of the app ication of the Great Amer. ican Mining Company. corporation, for a pat. ent Tor the Great American Mining Claim situa- ted in the Swisshelm mining district in the county of Cochisc. Territory of Arizona.
 UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE. I TUCSON. Arizona, June 6, 1888 [
 Notice is her. by given that in pursuance o( Chapter SIX, of title thirty-two of the revised statutes of the United States. The Great Amer ican Mining Company claiming fifteen hundred | linear ieet oi the Great American vein lode or deposit, bearing gold and other minerals, to. gether With surface ground six hundred feet in width; said mineral clam vein, lode or deposit and surface ground being situated in the Swiss helm m ming district. county of Cochise and ieril ory ot Arizona, ani being more particu- larly described in the official field notes and platS thereof ned n the office Of the Reeiste- sf l me U .. Land otilce at ucson Arizona Be. gaming at ihe initial monument marking the Northerly end center of cam at post four | leet long, four inches in diameter set one and q l haiffeet lh the g ound and sourrouded bv q mound O. stones and marked G. A I. M No q tne1ce south 4o' 30 E. variations II' IS !. zoe feet to the N r. corner oi claim 10 a pest of same heght and diam, ter, set m ,he ground and | sur1unred by mound of stones, rost marked G A. No. 2, thence S 4o' 30 N Iss ofcet to $ E corner of cla m toa post ol like dimensions etc ! set Tn the go ound and sarroundei by mound | oi stones-post marked G. 4. No 2 thence N 49' 3 w 300 feet to the Soatherly end center oi cla m to ost cf same dimen, ions, SCI iu t'e ground and su roundcd ry a mound or stones marked G. A. No 4. thence N i9' % " | 3co feet 10 w corner oi clam 10 DOS, sci T, | ihe ground and sunounder by d r, u.a cf | stones post marked G. A. No. $ whi.h O., is also the 5 E corner post ct tre flora S.lver ! Mining claim and from which pcs, the U. S M. M. No. 5 bars a5' 80 w 33, .cet 1 thence 4o' 30 1900 feet to NV corner of | claim to a post set in the ground ard s,lnornd- el Dy monument Of store5-post marked G. A No o-this post is also the NE corner post of Horn Silver min ng claim, thence $ 4o' 3' 300 feet to monument and post G. A. |. M No. I. thc place oi beginning and containing 20 66 100 acres. The sad mining claim being of record Tn the ofhce o! the Recorder of Deeds at Tomb stone in the county and territory afore aid 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 Salu register, as near as can Dc determined from present developments, this claim being for 1900 linear feet through. together with the surface ground shown upon the official plats filed as atoresaid-the said vein, lode and mining prem. ises hereby sought to be patened 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 deslgnated as lot 1T 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, plated and applied tor, 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 Ali. zoaa, they will be bound by virtue of the provis- 10 s of said statute.
 And it is hereby ordered that this notice be publ:hed for the ten consecutive weeks in the Tombstone Weekly EpIrApH, a newspaper pub. lshed weekly at Tombstone Cochise county
 the Territory of Arizona. A D DUFF,
 Register.