Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-07-24
PROPOSED qualifications
The u. 9. Mining Law Changes t" be
Pushed During the Next Congress.


Stewards bill to modify the present I, S,
mining laws:
Section |. That section 23l9 OF the
Revised Statutes be amended by adding
thereto the following: But no person
shall acquire by location more than | 300
feet in length on the same vein, nor shall
any person relocate Il claim he had pre-
yiously located.
Soc. 2. That section 233224 Of the Re
viscd Statutes be amended so rs to read:
See. 1924. The miners of each mining
district may make regulations, not III con
hct with the laws of the United States
or with the laws of the state or territory
in which the district is situated, govern
| ING the location, manner of recording
amount of work necessary to hold pos
session OF a mining claim, subject to the
| following requirements: The location
must be distinctly marked on the ground
bv posts or monuments so that its bound
| aries can be readily traced. All records
of mining claims hereafter made shall
contain the name or names OF the locatofs,
/ the date of the location, and such de-
srrption of the claim or claims rs Will
! identify the claim. On each claim located
after the 10th day of May, 1872, and until
payment OF the purchase money and Il
/ certificate of entry has been issued there
for not less than 500 worth OF labor shall
be performed or improvements made dur
ing each wear. On all claims located prior
to the 10th day OF May, 1872, $40 worth
of labor shall be performed or improve,
ments made during each year for each 100
feet in length along the vein until pay
ment of the purchase money and a certlf-
icate OF entry has been issued therefor;
and for each twenty acres OF placer claims,
and for each subdivision thereof less than
twenty acres, $25 worth Of labor shall be
performed or Improvements made dur
ing each year until payment OF
the purchase money and certificate
of entry shall be issued there
for. But where several adjoining claims,
not exceeding five, whether the same be
lode or placer claims, are owned or held
by the same person, association or cor
poration, and the sum of $1,000 or more
is expended in any one year in good
faith for the development Of all the claims
so owned or held, not exceeding five,
there shall be no requirement Tor separate
labor or improvements to be performed
or made on the several claims so owned
or held during such year. They within
which the annual labor or improvements
required to be performed or made by this
section shall commence at II O'Clock
meridian on the LIST day Of October OF
each year: Provided, That upon claims
located previous to the lst day OF March
in any year the annual labor or improve
ments shall be performed or made on
such claim for that year prior to y O'Clock
meridian of the 1st day OF October next
succeeding; and upon claims located after
the last day of February and prior to II
O'Clock meridian of the LIST day OF
October in any year, the annual labor or
improvements required shall be per-
formed or made prior to II O'Clock merl-
dian of the LIST day OF the next following
October: And provided further, That
only one-half Of the annual labor or I'M
proyements required by this act shall be
necessary to be performed or made prior
to II O'Clock meridian OF the LIST day OF
October, in the year 1889, on claims upon
which the annual labor or improvements
were performed or made in the year 1883 !;
but after the lst day of October, in the
wear 1889, the full amount of labor or
improvements required by this act shall
be performed or made upon such claims
rs in all other cases during each year
prior to u o'clock meridian of the LIST day
of October. In case the LIST day OF
October falls on Sunday or any holiday
the following secular day shall be con-
strued as the LIST day of October within
the meaning of this act. When the labor
required by this act shall have been per-
formed or the improvements made an
affidavit shall be filled within thirty days
after the time limited for performing
such labor or making such improvements
with the recorder OF the mining district
in which such claims are situated, and ii
there be none then with the recorder OF
deeds of the county in which the claim
or mine is situated, particularly describ,
ing the labor performed and improve
ments made, and the value thereof,
which affidavit shall be prima tacie evl.
dence of the facts therein stated. And
upon a failure to comply with these con
ditions. the claim or mine upon which
such failure occurred shall be open to re-
location in the same manner as II nc
location OF the same had ever been made
Provided, That the original locators, thell
heirs. assigns or legal representatives &c
not resume work upon the claim
after ouch failure and before sucl
location, and continue the same will
reasonable diligence until TIT
required amount OF labor shall have beer
performed or Improvements made. Upor
the failure OF any one of several co-oWnerl
TO contribute his proportion of tho expen
ditures required hereby, the co-ownerr
: who have performed the labor or mad
the Improvement may, at the expiration
of the year, give such delinquent co.owne
nersonal notice in writing or notice b.
publication in the newspaper publishe
! nearest the claim, for at least once wee
for ninety days, and If at the expiration
Of ninety days after such notice in wrltln
!, or by publication such delinquent sha
fail or refuse to contribute his proportion
) of the expenditure required by this SEE
ton, his interest in the claim shall be
come the property OF his co-owners VIII
have made the required expenditures
, upon recording copy of such notice, t.
cether with an affidavit showing persona
service or publication, as the case may bt
of such notice with the recorder of tn
mining district in which such mimi
/ claim is situated, and if there be no sue
officer, then with the recorder of deeds {
the county in which such mining claim
situated. When any person or compan
has developed and exposed lode, sal
person or company may run tunnel fe
d the purpose Of developingsuch lode owne
l'ee bv said person or company, and the MOI
l. i. ey so expended in said tunnel shall /
re considered as expended on said lode, an
"a such person or company shall not Their
~ q after be required to perform labor or MAX
ia improvements on the surface of said loo
in order to hold the same, so longas woi
is continued on such tunnel"
Sec. 3. That section 1926 OF the r
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