Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-06
LAFABRE, Receiver.
M. A. No. 453.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.


February Is, 1889.
Notice is hereby given that the Fin Mountain
Company, by its agent, Alfred l.. Sivyer, whose
postofice address is Custer, Custer Co.. Dakota,
has this day filed its 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 Of the Black Hills
Meridian; said lot number 552 being described
as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the southeast corner OF the
claim, a pine post 5x5 inches, 8 IT long, set on
solid rock, surrounded by a mound OF rocks, 2 IT
high, marked No. 1 on one side and M. c. $50 on
the opposite side for corner No. l.. From which
cor. u. :. Loo. Monument No. 5S bears south, 8
deg, 80 min west, 1885 fl dist, corner No. 4. nj.
C.. 553. Tin Mountain lode, bears north, sc deg
east 40 IT, a pine tree IL inches in diameter bears
north, "a deg east, 81 IT dist, marked B. I'd a
| pine tree IA Inches in diameter, bears north, 80
deg, 80 min west, "a IT dist, Cnarked Is. IT,
Thence first course, south, &c deg, on min west,
432 fl to a pine post 5x5 inches. 4 It high, ] # in
ground, and in mound Of dirt 2 IT high, marked
b. s., from which discovery cut 5X10x6 II face
bears north, 26 deg, AZ min west, 1875 II dist, 104O
II to intersection OF the east end line OF Gray tin
lode, In conflict (unsurveyed), 14l0 II to corner
No. 3, Nj. G.. 1853, 1900 IT to corner No. 2, from
which corner No. 3, M. C.. 500, bears north, Sc deg
east, 80 fl dist, a pine tree IA inches in diameter,
bears north, So deg east, 81 fl dist, (marked w.
T., a pine tree Is inches diameter. bears north,
50 deg, 80 min east, 9O.5 IT dist, marked b.. To-
Thence second course, north, 2 deg, 80 min west,
300 II to corner No. 3. Thence third course,
north, sc deg, 90 min east, rs fl to north side line
Of Gray tin lode, from which point on same line
the conflict OF Gray tin lode runs. south, 81 deg,
II min east, AS # to northeast corner OF said
Gray tin lode, thence south, "a deg, As min west,
AZ Il TO the intersection on south side line Course
No. ~ OF nj. C. 552, 80 IT to intersection OF west
side line Of Clarence lode (unsuryeyed) in con-
fict. 735 It to east side line OF Clarence lode,
from which point on line, said east side line OF
Clarence lode, bears soth, 40 deg, IS min west,
364.5 fl, thence north, 81 deg, II min west. 3O7 IT,
thence north, 40 deg, - min east, l2s IT, to inter
section with west side line Course No. 3. NJ. c.
500, 1900 II TO corner No. 4. Thence fourth
course, south, 2 deg, 30 min east, 800 IL to corner
No. l and place Of beginning, containing
1898 acres. Conflict with Gray tin lode 2.i1
acres. Conflict with Clarence lode 1863 acres.
Total amount in conflict, not claimed, $50 acres.
Total amount claimed, $50 acres. Magnetic
variation, Is deg, 80 min Il, containing 6.63 acres.
The location OF this mine is recorded In the
Register of Deeds Office of Custer county, ID. T.,
in Book s Of locations, at page 321. The adjoin-
ing man are on west and north the Clarence
and Gray tin lcdes, on south Tin Mountain lode,