Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-09
NJ. A. No. 453.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
U. s. LAND OFFICE RAPID CITY, OAK,

u. y. LAND OFFICE hAflDt Ilh, Dams. (
February IS, 1889. {
Notice is hereby given that the Tin Mountain
Company. by its agent, Alfred l.. SlvyeT, whose
postotiice 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, win
surface ground three hundred feet IN width,
situated in Custer mining district, county OF
Custer and territory OF Dakota, ana designated
by the field notes and official plat on file I'm this
Office as lot number 552, east of the Black Hills
Meridian; SAID lot number boz being described
rs follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the southeast corner OF the
claim, "A pine post 5X5 inches, . II long, set on
solid rock, surrounded by a mound OF rocks, 2 II
high. marked No. | ON one side and NJ. C.. 552 on
the opposite side for corner No. l.. From which
cor. {. :. Loo. Monument No. 80 bears south, s
deg, 30 min west, 1885 IT dist, corner NO. T. M.
G.. 553. Tin Mountain lode, bears north, SO deg
east 10 fl, a pine tree Is inches in diameter bears
north, q deg east, 81 1t dist, marked B. r. a
pine tree IA inches III diameter. bears north, 80
deg, 80 min west, "a IL dist, (marked Is. ID
Thence first course, sontll, So deg, 90 MN west,
432 # to a pine post 5X5 inches. 4 1t hlgh, | RI IN
ground, and i'm mound of dirt 2 II high, marked
b. s., from which discovery cot 5xl0X6 II face
bears north, rs deg, A. min west, l65 III dist, lO@O
fl 10 intersection of the east end line OF Gray TIN
lode, IN conflict (unsuryeyed), i4lo II 10 corner
No. 3, NJ. c. 553, 1890 II 10 corner No. y rom
which corner No 8, VI. G. 553, bears north, 50 deg
east, 30 IT dist, q pine tree IA inches IN diameter,
bears north, 50 deg east, III IT dist, mlarked'W
T.. "A pine tree Is inches diameter, bears north,
bt ltB, ~ HliU east, SNsO 1t hloA, Alihs' ~ ~ -
Thence second course, north, 2 deg, 80 min west,
800 It 10 corner No. 3. Thence third course,
north, SO deg, 90 min east, % IL TO horth side me
of Gray tin lode, from which point on same lihe
the conflict Of Gray tin lode runs south, 81 deg,
IL min east, AS II 70 northeast corner OF salu
Gray tin lode, thence south. "a deg, 10 MN west,
As IT to the intersection on south side me course
No ~ of VI. G.. 552, 80 II to intersection OF west
side line of Clarence lode (uiSurveyed) III con-
fict. 735 II TO east side line OF Clarence lode,
from which point ON line, SAID east Slde me Oh
Clarence lode, bears soth, 40 deg, 45 min west,
36i.5 fl, thence north, 81 deg, II min west. 30. II,
thence north, 40 deg. As min east. rs II, 10 inter-
section with west side line course No. 3. Nj. G.
553), 1900 II TO corner No. I. Thence fourth
course, south, . deg, 80 min east, 800 III 10 corner
No. 1 and place Of beginning, containing
10 80 acres. Conflict with Gray tin lode oil
acres. Conflict with Clarence lode 1863 acres.
Total amount in conflict, not claimed, $50 acres.
Total amount claimed, 6.53 acres. Magnetic
variation, Is deg. 20 min l., containing G.53 acres.
The location OF this mine is recorded in the
Register of Deeds office of Custer county, ID. T.,
in Book 3 of Locations, at page 81. The adJoiii-
inc claimants are on west and north the Clarence
AID GlN IN iodCS, on south Iin Mountain t"'o.