, 1888-12-20

the city in the interest of a national bank
for Davenport. The capital stock of the
proposed bank Is placed at 300, 900. but
he says there is such a demand for the
stock that unless some of the subscribers
interested reduce their subscriptions there
will not be enough stock to 20 around.
The necessary papers are being prepared
IN this city and will be forwarded to
Washington in a. day or two. A number
OF prominent Spokone people are interested
in the new enterprise. In speaking of
Davenport Mr.. Day reports building
operations active. David Wilson, man
ager of the Columbia Investment Com
pany, will build $1,000 brick block at
once, and is now negotiating with Spo.
kane parties for the immediate delivery
OF brick tor its construction. Tacoma
parties are erecting two large brick blocks
there which will be finished next month.
John A. Johnson of Howard, Mimi, is on
the ground preparing to build large
roller tiour-mill, with u capacity OF 100
barrels per day. Several elevators are
now receiving grain, and the Echo mills
of Spokane, Mr.. Day says. are construct.
ing grain warehouse at Davenport.
A number of people in Spokane are in
terested in the future of the place, among
whom is DIR. Essig, who has lately pur.
chased large interest in the townsite.
Mr.. Day will remain in the city several
days.
In our last article we referred in the lat
ter part to the setting of center side stakes
for the convenience of other prospectors.
We may also call your attention to the
fact that these extra monuments are also
beneficial TO the claimant himself, as it
will often have Il tendency to keep others
from overlapping his own territory. Ex-
perience has proved to me the advisabiity
of avoiding conflicts of this character
whenever ii is possible, as any conflict, by
legal right or not may lead to trouble.
Hence we claim that precaution of this
nature, when it can be taken at so little
cost and expense, is desirable. Care
should be used in setting the end stakes to
have them placed AS nearly in line per-
pendicular to the side line as possible, as
you can measure no other line which will
give your claim as much width, and the
more you vary from u right angle in meas
uring your 600 feet the nearer together
must your side lines come
POINTS 10 BE OBSERVED
In making up your location certificates
it would he we'll, should you have followed
the suggestions in our previous articles
and used pocket compass, to state at the
close of your description that the courses
and bearing of the said claim are mag
netic, as the magnetic attraction of the
needle is very apparent in this locality
and the difference between a magnetic and
true course would make Il very material
change in retracing the lines. Attention
should also be given to tying" some cor
ner or designated point of the claim to
two or more natural objects, all of which
should be as near as you eau practically
lza na hup
one party interested in the claim at the
time of making out the certificate 1t would
be well to state the undivided interest
each one may have in the location, partic-
ularly if the several interests are unequal.
Should this not be done any ono or the
original owners would have natural
right to claim the interest which the word
ing of the instrument would give him.
WHEN ADJOINING.
Should your lode or ledge be one ad-
joining another claim and which is the
senior location, the law gives you the right
to extend your center line into and through
said senior claim; provided your center
line will pass entirely over the surface
boundaries of the prior location. The
causes for this are quite clear, for the rea-
son that lode claim holds all the ore
within its boundaries so long as the apex
falls within the side lines of the location,
and not as formerly. claiming the ore only
at the point of intersection of the lodes.
This being the case, the United States
contends that it is useless to allow an in
reference which can result in no good to
a junior location, as no benefits can be de-
rived from running the cross lode into the
owned and occupied territory Of another
unless the junior location can take in some
part-it matters not how littlt--ot the lode
on the other side of the senior claimant s
boundaries as established. We do not
wish to convey the idea that any conflicts
of this kind will invalidate the title OF the
junior location in any way, but We do take
the position it can be of no benefit. 1t re-
suits in no good and may lead to contest.
Should the owners make an application for
United States patent 1t would lead to
the necessity of making an amended To-
cation. emitting that portion of the
original claim which ran into the senior
location and did not extend through the
same.
WHEN CLAIMS CONFLICT.
Again, we find the impression quite
prevalent among mining men of this Sec
tion that when senior location, with q
junior claim confiicted and overlapped
has, 10y some legal requirement, been for
feited or abandoned, that the ground il
conflict between the two claims reverts tc
the junior claimants by virtue of thi:
abandonment. This is not the case, and
it should be understood that were a senior
location is subjected to relocation the only
possible way TO make it a part of the sec
ond location is to make an amended sur
yey and record Of the Junior location par
ticularly specifying and claiming tina,
portion OF the senior territory which will
come within the boundaries of the same
If this can be ACCOMPLISHED before the
original locators, their heirs, assigns OIL
legal representatives, have resumed work
upon the claim after failure. then the
ground contended for will become the
property of the third parties or reloca