Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-11
JOHN LAFABRE, Receiver.
NJ. A. No. 453.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
T.. s. LAND OFFICB RAPID CITY, OAK,

February Is, 1889.
Notice is hereby given that the Tin Mountain
Company. by IT'S agent, Alfred l.. Slvycr, whose
poStoflice address Is Custer, Custer CO.. Dakota,
has this day nlcd its application f0ra patent Tor
fifteen hundred linear feet OF the Empire lodt,
mine or vein bearing tin and other metals, with
surface ground three hundred feet III width,
situated in Custer mining district, county OF
Custer and territory of Dakota, ana designated
by the field notes and official plat on Tile III this
Office as lot number 552, east of the Black Hills
Meridian; said lot number 552 being described
as fellows, to-wit:
Beginning at the southeast corner OF the
claim, a pine post 5x5 inches, 3 fl long, set on
solid rock, surrounded by a mound OF rocks. 2 IT
high, marked No. / on one side and Nj. G. 652 on
the opposite side for corner No. !. From when
cor. Z. 5. Loo. Monumen, No. 80 bears south, .
deg, 30 min west, 1875 II dist, corner No. 4. Nj.
C.. 553. Tin Mountain lode, bears north, Sc deg
east 40 TT, a pine tree - inches IN diameter bears
north, "a deg east, 81 ii dist, (marked Il. ID a
pine tree II inches in diameter, bears north, 80
deg, 80 min west, "a fl dist, marked b. I'd
Thence first course, south, Sc deg, 90 min west,
432 # to a pine post 5X5 inches. 4 II high, , IT III
ground, and in mound of dirt 2 # high, marked
+. s., from which discovery cut 51l0X6 It face
bears north, % deg, 45 min west, lG5 IT dist, 1910
fl 10 intersection OF the east end line OF Gray TN
lode, in conflict Onsuryeyed), l4l0 II TO corner
No. 3, NJ. c. 553, 1900 # to corner NO. 2, from
which corner No. 3, NJ. {. 553, bears north, Sc deg
east, 80 fl dist, a pine tree IA inches In diameter,
bears north, 50 deg east. 81 fl dist, (marked w.
r., a pine tree lG inches diameter bears n0rtn,
GO deg, 80 min east, G.5 1t dist, Cmarked Is. ~
Thence second course, north, = deg, ~ MN west,
800 II 10 corner No. 3. Thence third course,
north, SO deg, 90 min east, 10 fl to north side line
lof Gray tin lode, from which point on same line
the conflict of Gray tin lode runs south, 81 deg,
II min east, AS IT 10 northeast corner OF SAID
Gray tin lode, thence south, "a deg, - MN west,
As IL 10 the intersection Oh south side line course
No. ~ of NJ. G. 552, 80 II 10 intersection or west
side line Of Clarence lode (nnsurveyed) IN con
fict. 735 fl to east side line OF Clarence lode,
from which point on line, said east side line OF
Clarence lode, bears soth, 40 deg, 45 min west,
364.5 IT, thence north, 81 deg, IL min west. 31 III,
thence north, 40 deg, 45 min east, lbs IT, 10 inter
section with west side line Course No. 3. NJ. &.
$3.50, 1900 fl 10 corner No. 4. Thence fourth
course, south, 2 deg, 80 min east, 300 1t to corner
No. | and place Of beginning, containing
1898 acres. Conflict with Gray tin lode I'll
acres. Conflict with Clarence lode l.G9 acres.
Total amount in conflict, rot claimed, $50 acres.
Total amount claimed, 6.53 acres. Magnetic
variation, 10 deg, 80 min f., containing 6.53 acres.
The location of this mine is recorded IN the
Register of Deeds Office Of Custer county, ID. T.,
in Book . of Locations, AT page 321. The adJoin-
ing claimants are on west and north the Clarence
and Gray iii. lodeS, on south Tin Mountain lode.