Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-08
VI \. No. 40,
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.


I. :. LAND OFFICE, lEADNOOD, ~. /. I
Notice is hereby given that Joseph +. Pitcher,
whose p~ostotlice address Is Custer, Custer Coul-
~, Dakota Territory, has this day fled his APP
~plicatiun for u patent for the llascrOdt Placer
Mine bearing gold with surface ground thirty
nine and 99-lm acres, situated in nnorganIcd,
Custer mining district, County OF custer ana
Territory of Dakota, and designated 10y the field
notes and official plat on file in this Office as lot
number DIS, said lot number 54o being rs lolloMs,
tO-wit
Beginning at the :. T.. corner of the claim, on
western boundary of custer City tOwnSite tpat-
entcdl, "A pitch pine post 5N5X60 inches, : IT III
ground and in mound of rock, 3 Il base, ? II high,
marked NJ. {. 54S on one side, and No. on op-
poSitc side for cor. No. /. From which l.. >.
Loo. Mon. No. 81 bears : 20 deg. 20 min. W, $40
It; a pine tree II inches diam. bears \ i6 deg. 30
min. W, 4Oi II; "A spring OF water running about
q miners inches bears y 81 deg. w. G4O II; dis
covcry shaft, SX2ONlO II deep, bears S73 deg. w,
1900 fl; cor. No. 1, Custer Ciiy townslic bears >
- leg. 80 min. 7, 60 IT, Thence irNt course ;
60 deg. 70 min. W, var. 10 deg. 80 min. +, 2G+0 II
to cor. No. ,, "a pitch pine post 5N5N60 inches, ,
II in ground. surrounded by "a mound of rock 3G
inches base and 80 inches top, marked VI. {. as
on one side and No. 2 on the opposite side for
cor. No. >. Thence second courSr, \ 20 deg. 30
MN. W, var. 10 deg. 30 min. T., 60 n 10 cor. NO.
B, Il pitch pine post 5N5NG0 inches, : IT III ground,
surrounded by "A mound OF rock inches base,
No. 3 on the opposite side for cor. No. 3, from
which a pine tree IA inches diam. bears y, 80
deg. +, % IT, blaZed and marked b. I. Thence
NV ''l " y va Wv r. - nuns - GU - - - ~
min. r., 2Gio II 10 cor. NJ. !. a pine post 5%5N6o
inches on a "a ms. drlll | II In The solid rock,
marked NJ. {. 54S ON one side. and No. 4 on the
opposite side for cor. No. 1, from which cor. No.
3, Custer City tOWnSite. bears y 20dcg. 30 MN W.
1920 II dist. Thence fourth course, > 20 deg. 30
min. +, var. - deg. 80 mini, along with course
40. 3, Custer city tOWnSite west boundary, 6G0
fl to corner No. !, and place of beginning.
The third course OF Custer CITY tOWnSltc IS re-
ported in error On II deg. w being rum ON "A
var, Of - dee. T..
Magnetic variation Is deg. 80 min, containing
thirty-nine 90 100 acres.
The location of this mine IS recorded IN the
Register of Deeds Office Of Custer county, Dako-
Ia, page $40, in book 1 of Locations. The adj
joining claimants are Custer City TownSitc on
the east. patented.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said llaSerOdt Placer mine or surface
ground are required 10 fle their adverse claims
with the register Of the United states land office
~ DcadWOod, in the Territory OF Dakota, during
the sixty days period of publication hereof, or
they viii be barred 10y virtue of the provisions of
the statute.
JOHN X. WHITESIDE, Register.
1t is hereby ordered that the foregoing notice
OF application for patent be published for the
period OF sixty days, (cn consecutive weekSl In
the CUSTER C~HRONICLE. "A weekly newspaper
published AT Custer city, ID. r.
JOHN X. WIIITESIDE, Register,
ALFRED /. fEAT, Attorney for Applicant.
FIRST publication, september /.