Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-04
JOIN Receiver.
Nj. A. No. IJ3.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
L. :. LAND OFFICE RAPID CITY, OAK,
February iS 1Ssp 4

L. 5. Ian OFFICE RAPID CITY, OAK,
February Is, 1889.
Notice is hereby given that the Fin Mountain
COMPANY, by its agent, Alfred l.. Sivyer, whose
postoiIicc address is Custer, custer Co.. Dakota,
has this day filed its application Tor a patent Tor
fifteen hundred linear feet OF the Empire lode.
mine or vein bearing tin ana otlief metals, WIN
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 III this
office as lot number 552, east OF the Black Hills
Neridian; said lot number 552 being described
as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the southeast corner OF the
claim, "a PIN post 5X5 inches, 3 II long, set on
solid rock, surrounded by a mound of rocks, 2 1t
high, marked No. / on one side and NJ. G.. 552 on
the opposite side for corner No. /. From which
cor. L. :. Loo. Monument No. 80 bears south, 8
deg, 50 min west, 1885 IT dist, corner No. 1. NJ.
G.. 553. Tin Mountain lode, bears north, SO deg
east 40 fl, "A pine tree 10 inches III diameter bears
north, "A deg east, 81 IT dist, Omarkcd H.. to a
pine tree IL inches in diameter, bears north, 80
deg, 80 min west, - IT dist, unarked b. t.
Thence first course, south, ~ deg, m min west,
ABB IT to n pine post 5A5 inches. 4 II nigh, ] II III
ground, and IN mound Of dirt 2 IT nigh, marked
Il. S., from which discovery cut 5X10x6 II face
bears north, Pc deg, 40 min west, l5 II dist, 1910
II 10 intersection Of the east end line of Gray tin
lode, in conflict unstryeyed), liio II to corner
No. 3, NJ. G. 653, 1890 fl to corner No. ., from
which corner No. 3, Nj. {. 553, bears north, Sc deg
east, 81 II dist, a pine tree Ia inches IN diameter,
bears north, 50 deg east, 81 II dlst, Qnarked ".
T., a pine tree 10 inches diameter, bears north,
60 deg, 80 min east, 800 II dist, nlarked Il. To
Thence second course, north, 2 deg, 80 min west.
BOD # To corner No. 3. Thence third course,
north, IS deg, 90 min east, 20 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 fl to northeast corner OF said
Gray tin lode, thence south, "a deg, - min west,
~ Fl 10 the intersection on south side line Course
No. II OF NJ. &. 552, $40 fl 10 intersection of west
side line of Clarence lode (unslrveyed) I'm con-
flict. 1876 # to east side line of Clarence lode,
from which point on line, said east side line OF
Clarence lode, bears soth, ~ deg, - min west,
364.5 Fl, thence north, 81 deg, II min west. 3O7 II,
thence north, Ndeg, Is min east, l2S II. To inter
section With west side line course No. 8. NJ. G..
553), 1900 n 10 corner No. 4. Thence fourth
course, south. 9 deg, 80 min east, 900 II To corner
No. | and place Of beginning, containing
1888 acres. Conflict with Gray tin lode oil
acres. Conflict with Clarence lode l.69 acres.
Total amount i'm conflict, not claimed, 80 acres.
Total amount claimed, 6.5S acres. Magnetic
variation, ~ deg, 30 min l., containing G.53 acres.
The location of this mine is recorded In the
Register of Deeds Office of Custer county, ID. r.,
in Book 3 OF Locations, ut page 32i. The adjoin-
ing claimants are on west aud north the Clarence
and Gray TN IOdte, on south Tin Mountain lode.