The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1889-07-27
MINING LAWS.
EoR THE INFORMATION OF
Owners and LocatOrs
OF MINES.
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS.
Tunnel flights.
the LAW IN REGARD TO ALIENS.
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS.
the REGARD TO ALIENS.
APPLICATION FOB PATENT.

Where papers have been once fled with
| the Register and Receiver they become
| part of the record, and can neither be with.
| drawn nor returned. but must be transmitted
| to the General Land 0fice
An application will be rejected when the
description of the premises are erroneous or
| insufic en:.
Application for a patent will be rejected
| because:
First-The notice was published without
| the knowledge Of the Register.
second-The notice was not published In
| newspaper designated as published nearest
claim.
Thrd-Record of title was found defective.
| and
Fourth-A previous application had been
made for tho same prom Uses, which was with
drawn pending suit in court commenced by
| the adverse claimant
An application for patent will be rejected
whom the survey does not accurately define
the boundaries of q claim.
When he claim was not located in accord
ance with law.
Where several parties own separate and
distinct portions Of q claim. application for
| patcnt may be made by either for that por-
| ton of the claim owned by him; but where
several partners own undivided interests in
| a mining claim all should join in an applica
! ton for a patont.
| A person or association may purchase 40
| many placer claims as the local Law admits
| and embf ace them all In one application for
a patent. :,
Two or more lodes cannot be embraced In
! III Coz a ant mt 0P Mi an
| claims, embracing two or more lodes within
! thoir boundaries.
Papers sworn to before any person purport.
e. a BE- recorded as Anu
In all patents for mining claims situated
| within the interior boundaries of town site
clause is inserted excepting and excluding
and all houses, buildings. structures, lots,
blocks, 81 reefs. alleys. or other municipal I'm.
proveinent not belonging to the grantee
herein. and all rights necessary or proper to.
he occup patton, possession or enjoyment o.
the same
Publication Of notice must be made snly in
one newspaper for the period of sixty days.
Notice must DO published ten coneeCutiye
weeks in weekly newspapers. and IN daily
newspapers sixty days must slapss between
tho first and last insertions. -,
Where the Register de.ignatee tho daily
issue of q newspaper for tho publications Of
notices Of mining application for patent
it is not in compliance with the law to change
to the weekly edition Of the same paper with
| out the au thority of the Register.
The existence of a salt spring on a tract OF
land withdraws it from the operation Of the
homestead and presumption laws. a near
| ing for the purpose OF proving tho agricul'
| tural character OF such land 10 not allowed.
Land con tanning valua BILE deposits Of slate
| may be entered under the mining acts.
ADVERSE CLAIMS.
Adverse claimants must file 2 separate and
ol-:s~ sns ABB nAA nh Ah
| IL Is alleged conflicts with the premises owned
| by such adverse claimant.
The papers in an adverse claim, once fled,
| cannot be withdrawn, but become part OF
| the record.
When an adverse claim has been nlsd II
| cannot he amended so as to embrace larger
portion Of the premises than that described In
| the original adverse claim.
| proper form and filed in the proper local Office
during the period of publication of the ap.
| plicatiOn for the patent to be effective.
1t is the duty of the adverse claimant to
| commence suit in proper form within the re-
| quired time, and if he entrusts the uncertain
| medium of tho United States mall he must
| abide the consequences, should the delay en-
sue, through misfortune or accident. should
| the failure to commence suit DO the result OF
| the corrupt or dis honest action Of his attor-
ney. the Interior Department cannot redress
| the wrong.
! An adverse claimant should set forth in de-
/ tail the facts upon which no bases his adverse
! claim. \ statement In gcnoral terms. en-
I bodying conclusions of law, without stating
tho fncIs specially. will not be considered in
! evidence.
! An adverse claimant should show COM
! pliance with local laws In recording his claim
and in regard to expenditures, and shall
! file copy of the original notice Of his loca-
| ton. and show the nature or the extent OF
| the conflict alleged.
An allegation of parties TO suit that they
! comp pose the company ia sufficient, and they
| are not required to prove that they are the
F! original locatOrs or the identical parties who
| presented the adverse claim.
F; AGRICULTURAL OR MINERAL LANDS.
Where the land is of.little. if any value, for
agricultural purposes, but is essential for the
/ development of mining claims, it should be
! disposed of under tho Mining Act
! Where lands containing valua BILE mineral
! deposits have been included in an agricultural
entry, said entry will be cancelled at any time
/ prior to tie issuance Of patent, upon satisfac-
! tory evidence of the existence Of such valu-
able deposit.
| Where valuable mineral deposits arc dis
covered upon tract after the same has been
! entered as agricultural, but before patent has
been issued, the parties claiming tho mine
may make application for patent fer same
and the agricultural entry will be cancelled
! to that portion OF the land embraced by said
mining clsim.
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