Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02
NJ. a. No. ABB.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
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l.. ). LAND OFFICE RAPID CITY, OAK,
February Is, 1889. {
Notice is hereby given that the fin Mountain
Company, by its agent, Alfred l.. Siyyer, whose
postOfice address Is Custer, Custer Co, Dakota,
has this day filed lis application for "A patent for
fifteen hundred linear feet OF the Empire lode,
mine or vein bearing tin and other metals, with
surface ground three hundred feet in width,
situated In Custer mining district, county OF
Custer and territory of Dakota, and designated
by the field notes and official plat on file in this
office as lot number 552, east ~ the Black Hills
Meridian; said lot number 552 being described
AS follows, tO-Wlt:
BEGINNING at the southeast corner of the
claim, "A pine post 5x5 inches, 8 fl long, set on
solid rock, surrounded by "A mound Of rocks. 2 II
high, marked No. 1 on one side and Nj. {. G2 on
the opposite side for corner No. l.. From which
cor. L. :. Loo. Monument No. 5s bears south, s
deg, 80 min west, 1885 fl dist, corner No. 4. NJ.
G.. SIS. Tin Mountain lode, bears north, 50 deg
east ~ #, a pine tree 10 inches in diameter bears
north, "A deg east, 81 II dist, marked Il. To- a
pine tree IA inches In diameter, bears north, 80
deg, 80 min west, ~ II dist, unarked Il. TO
Thence first course, south, " deg, ~ min west,
i32 fl To a pine post 5X5 inches. 1 II high, l fl in
ground, and in mound of dirt ? IT high, marked
+. y, from which discovery cut 5xl0XG IT face
bears north, 70 deg, ~ min west, l65 IT dist, 1910
Fl To intersection OF the east end line of Gray tin
lode, in conflict unsuTveyed), l4l0 II TO corner
Ne. 8, VI. &. $50, 1890 II to corner No. 2, from
which corner No. 3, NJ. e.. 553, bears north, - deg
east, 80 fl dist. a pine tree II inches in diameter,
| bears north, So deg east, 81 II dist, marked W.
r., a pine tree l6 inches diameter, bears north,
69 deg, 80 min east, ND III ulSt, tHldThtu ID. ~
| Thence second course, north, 2 deg. 80 min west,
300 # to corner No. 3. Thence third course,
north, SO deg, 90 min east, 15 II 10 norm SIDE ilne
of Gray tin lode, from which point on same lhe
the conflict OF Gray tin lode runs south, 81 deg,
II min east, AS ii TO northeast corner OF SAID
Gray tin lode, thence south, a deg, ~ min west,
4s fl 10 the intersection on south side line course
No. II of NJ. G. 552, 80 IT to intersection OF west
side line OF Clarence lode unsuryeyed) In con-
fiict. 735 fl "a east side line OF Clarence lode,
from which point on line, said east side line OF
Clarence lode, bears soth, ~ deg, ~ min west,
364.5 II, thence north, 81 deg, Il min west. %l IL,
thence north, 10 deg, A. min east, l2sft, 10 inter
| section with west side line course No. 3. Nj. &.
553J; 1890 IT 10 corner No. !. Thence iourth
course, south, 2 deg, 20 min east, 800 IL 10 corner
| No. / and place of beginning, containing
1898 acres. Conflict with Gray tin lode I'll
acres. Conflict with Clarence lode l.6S acres.
| Total amount In conflict, not claimed, $50 acres.
Total amount claimed, 6.S acres. Magnetic
variation, Is deg, 10 min T., containing G.53 acres.
The location of this mine Is recorded IN the
Register of Deeds Office Of Custer county, ID. T.,
in Book 8 of Locations, AT page 3!i. The adJoin-
ing laimant are on west and north the Clarence
! spi CrtN fin loirs, ON south TIA Mountain lOdc.