The Clifton clarion., 1889-07-31

Of tl.e lst day of the next following October: And provided further, That ! only cne-half Of tue annual lsbor or improvements required by this act shall be necessary to be performed or made prior to twelve o'clock meridian i of the 1st day of October, 1889, on claims upon which the annual labor or improvements were performed or made in the year 1888; but after the lst day of October, in the year 1889, the full amount of labor or improve ments required by this act shall be performed or made upon such claims as in all other cases during each year prior to twelve o'clock meridian of the 1st day of October. In case the list day of October, fall oE Sunday or any holiday the following secular day shall be construed IS tie 1St day Of October within the meaning of this act. When the labor required by this act shall have been performed or the improvements made an affidavit shall be filed within thirty days after the time limited for performing such labor or. making such improvements with the recorder of the mining dis trict i'll which such claims are situ- ated, and if there be none then with the recorder of deeds of the county in which the claim or minc is situated, particularly describing the labor per formed and improvements made, and the value thereof, which affidavit shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. And upon failure to comply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall De open to relocation in the same manner as ii no location of the same had ever been made: Pro- vided, That the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives do not resume work upon the claim after such failure and before such To- cation, and continue the same with reasonable diligence until the requir- ed amount of labor shall have been performed or improvements made. Upon the failure of any one of several co-owners to contribute his propor- ton of the expenditures required hereby, the co-owners who have per formed the labor or made the im- provcments may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent CO., owner personal notice in writing or notice by publication in the news paper published nearest the claim, for at least once week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or by publication such delinquent shall fail or refuse to contribute his proportion of the expenditure required by this section, his interest in the claim shall become the property of his co-owners who have made the required expendi- utres, upon recording q copy of such notice, together with ar affidavit showing personal service or publica- ton, as the ease may be, Of such notice with the recorder of the mining dis trict in which such mine is situgted, and if there be no such officer then with the recorder of deeds of the county in which such mining claim is situated. When any person or com pany has developed and exposed & lode, and expended $1OO worth of labor thereon, said person or company may run tunnel for the purpose of developing such lode owned by said person or company, and the money so expended on said lode, and any such : person or company shall not hereafter be required to perform labor or make improvements on the surface of said lode in order to hold the same, so long as work is continued on such tunnel"
 SEC. 3. That 2S25 of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read:
 "Sec. 2325. A patent for any land claimed and located for valuable de- posits may be obtained in the follow ing manner: Any person. association, or corporation authorized to locate a claim under this chapter, having claimed or located piece of land for such purposes, who has. or have, con- piled with the terms of this chapter. may file ill the proper land-office an application for patent, under oath,
 showing such compliance, together with plat and field-notcs of the claim or claims in common, made by or un-
 der the direction of the United States