Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-23
NJ. A. No. 453.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
Us LAND OFFICE RAPID CITY, OAK.

Us. LAND OFFICE RAID CITY, DAK.,
February Is, 1889. +,
Notice is hereby given t,lat the fin Mountain
Company. bl its agent, Alfred l.. Siyyer, whose
p~osl0ilicc address is Custer, Custer Co, Dakota,
has this day iilcditS Application Tor 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 oi
Custer and territory of Dakota, and designated
~ the field notes and official plat on file IN TINS
Office AS lot number $50, east OF 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, 3 fl long, set on
solid rock, surrounded by a mound OF rocks, = It
high, marked No. / on one side and NJ. {. BOP on
the opposite side for corner No. |. From which
cor. e.. :. LOc. Monument No. 50 bears south, s
deg. 30 min west, 1865 II dist, corner No.. 1. VI.
G.. 553. rim Mountain lode, bears north, So deg
east 40 IL, "A pine tree - inches IN diameter bears
| north. "A deg east, 81 RI dist, tmarhUd b.. t. a
pine tree ii inches in diameter, bears north, 80
deg, 80 min west, ~ II dist, Cnlirked Ii. +
| Thence first course, Sonth, 50 deg, 90 MIN west,
49, IT to a pine post 5N5 inches. ! IL nigh, ] II III
ground, and in mound OF dirt 2 II hlgh, marked
T.. y, from which discovery cut 5NlGX6 ii face
bears north, 26 deg, - min west, l65 II dist, 10+(
fl to intersection ot the east end line OF Gray tin
lode. ia conflict dmSurveyed(, lil0 II To corner
No. 3, NJ. c.. 553, 1890 # to corner No. 2, iron
| which corner NJ. 3, NJ. &. 5j3, bears north, Sc dec
east, 30 II dist, a pine tree II inches III diameter
bears north, 50 deg east, 81 1T dist, (nlarked W
L., IL DIIt l1bt 10 ltlNlitN ii'Nii VI b'si ~
60 deg, 80 min east, 800 II dist, marked B. /.
Thence second course, north, 2 deg, 80 min west
900 1t To corner No. 3. Thence third course
north, Sc deg. ~ min east. - II 10 north side line
OF Gray tin lode, from which point on same line
tie conflict OF Gray tin lode runs south, 81 deg
II min east, as II to northeast corner OF sai1
Gray tin lode, thence south, ~ deg, 45 min west
As II to the intersection on south side line (courst
No. Il OF NJ. &. 552, $40 IT 10 intersection OF wes'
side line OF Clarence lode (unsurveyed) In con
tlict. 7S5 II 10 east side line OF Clarence lode
from which point on line, said east side line 81
Clarence lode, bears soth, 40 deg, IS min west
364.5 II, thence north. 81 deg, II min west. 800 II
thence north, 40 deg, A. min east, i2s II, 10 inter
section with west side line course NO. 3. Nj. l.
553), 1890 IT 10 corner No. 1. Thence fourth
course, south, 2 deg, 80 min east, 800 IT To corner
No. ! and place of beginning, containing
1888 acres, Conflict with Gray tin lode 2.ll
acres. Conflict with Clarence lode 1863 acres
Total amount In conflict, not claimed, $50 acres
Total amount claimed, 6.53 acres. Magnetic
variation, IL deg, 30 min Il, containing 6.53 acres
The location Of this mine il recorded IN the
Register Of Deeds Office of Custer county, u. J.
In Book , Of locations, at page 81. The adJolil
Ing claimants are on west and north The clarence
and Gray lin lodc>, on south Tin Mountain !odc