Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-27
NJ. A. No. 452.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
U. &. LAND OFFICE, RAPID CITY, OAK.

U. 4. LAND OFFICE, RAPID CITY, DAK.,
February II, 1889.
Notice Is hereby given that the Tin Mountain
Company, by its agent, Alfred l.. Siyyer, whose
post0fice address is Custer, Custer Co., Dakota
territory, has this day filed It's application for "A
patent for fifteen hundred linear feet of the Frac.
tional 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 10y the field notes and official plat
on file in this Office as lot number 554, east OF
the Black Hills Meridian; said lot number 54
being described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the southeast corner OF the Frac-
tional lode, a pine post 5x5 inches and 8 feet
high, 2 feet I'm the ground, surrounded by a
mound OF rocks, IT high, marked on one side
NJ. G. Si and No. l on the opposite side for
corner No. /. From which L.. :. Locating Monu-
ment No. 5SsDearSknOrth 800 deg. 50 min west, 444
II dist, a pine tree IL inches diameter bears north,
0 deg, 10 min west, blazed and marked w. T.,
1865 IT dist. a pine tree IA inches in diameter,
bears north, 3 deg, Is min west, 122 # distant,
blazed and marked b: T., 5. +. cor. black smith
shop 12xl2 brs \, IS deg, ~ min w, 500 fl dist.
Thence first course, south, 81 deg, 90 min west,
- 1t 10 intersection OF north end line Of Dolphin
lode, Qnsurveyed) from which point the end line
OF Dolphin lode bears north, "a deg, 80 min east,
IS # to intersection OF east end line Of NJ. C..554,
1900 II to corner No. 2. Thence second course,
north, 2 deg, 30 min west, 800 II To corner No. 8.
Thence third course, north, S5 deg, 90 min east,
IDS II TO corner No. 2 OF Nj. {. 553, 1900 IT 10 cor.
No, 4. Thence fourth course, south, 2 deg, 80
min east, $50 II to intersection with north end
line of Dolphin lode, 800 fl TO corner No. | and
place of beginning, containing 1898 acres. Con
iicts with Dolphin lode, Ounsuryeyed) not claim
ed O.03 acres. Total area claimed 1890 acres.
Magnetic variation, Is deg, 30 min l., containing
1890 acres.
The location Of this mine is recorded in the
Register OF Deeds Office Of Custer county, ID. T.,
IN Book s Of Locations, page 13i. The adjoining
claimants are east by Fraction lode, south by
Dolphin, and John A. Logan placer, north 10y
Tin Mountain lode, west by vacant ground.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said Fractional lode. mine or surface
ground are required to file their adverse claims
with the register of the United States land ONCE
AT Rapid City, in the territory OF Dakota, during
the sixty days period OF publication hereof, or
they viii be barred by virtue OF the provisions Of
the statute.
JOHN LAFABRE, Receiver.
1t is hereby ordered that the foregoing notice
OF application for patentS he published for the
period OF sixty days, Uen consecutive weeks In
the Custer Chronicle, p weekly newspaper pub
lished at Custer City, Dakota.
JOHN LAFABRE, Receiver.
ALFRED T. FRAY, Attorney for Claimant.
First publication, February %.