The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-07-27
THE NEW M1N1Na BILL.

I BY request the KEYSTONE pup
fishes in to-day's issue the bill in
troduced by Senator Stewart at thu
last session of Congress, amending
the present mining law in relation
to the location, patenting, etc., O
mineral lands. The bill passed ths
Senate, was referred to the House
committee on mines and mining
amended and ordered reported, but
no further action was taken by the
House of Representatives, and il
failed to become a law. Senator
Stewart will re-introduce the bill in
the next session of the Senate, and
is anxious to have it's provisions
fully understood and criticized by
all interested in mining. The read
ers of the KEYSTONE are requested
to write their views in regard to it,
and to offer any suggestions they
may seem fit. Senator Stewart is
now travelling with the Senate Irri-
CATION committee, but any commu-
nication addressed to him at Wash
ington, D. c., will be held until his
return. Following is the bill:
| A BILL TO AMEND CHAPTER Blk OF TITLE
THIRTY TWO OF THE REVISED STAT
UTEs RELATING TO MINERAL LANDS AND
MINING RESOURCES.
Be 1t enacted By the Senate and House Of
Representatives. Of the United States Of
america in Congress assembled, That sec
! tiOn twenty three hundred and nineteen
of the Revised Statutes be amended by
adding thereto the following: "But no
person shall acquire by location more
than ifteen hundred feet in length on the
same vein, nor shall any person relocate
q claim which he has previously located"
SEC. 2. That section twenty three hun.
dred and twenty four of the Revised Stat
| utes be amended 80 as to read:
"SEC. 1894, The miners Of each min
ing district may make regulations, not
in conflict with the laws Of the United
States, or with the laws of the State or
Territory in which the district is situat-
ed, governing the location, manner of re-
cording amount of work necessary to
held possession of q mining claim, sub
ject to the following requirements: The
location must he distinctly marked on
the ground by posts or monuments SO
that its boundaries can be readily traced.
All records of mining claims hereafter
made shall contain the name Or names of
| the locatOrs, the date of the location, aud
such description Of the claim or claims
located as will identify the claim. On
each claim located after the 10th day OF
May, eighteen hundred and seventy two,
and until payment Of the purchase money
and certificate Of entry has been issued
therefor, not less than one hundred dol.
lars worth Of labor shall be performed
or Improvements made during each year.
On all claims located prior to the 10th
day of May, 1879, ten dollars worth of
labor shall be performed or improve
ments made during each year for each
one hundred feet in length along the vein
until payment Of the purchase money and
certificate Of entry has been issued
therefor; and for each twenty acres of
placer claims, and for each subdivision
thereof less than twenty acres, twenty
five dollars worth Of labor shall be per-
formed or Improvements made during
each year until payment of the purchase
money and certificate of entry shall be
issued therefor. But where several ad
joining claims, not exceeding five, wheth-
er the same be lode or placer claims, are
owned or held by the same person. ass0-
citation, or corporation, and the sum Of
five thousand dollars or more is expended
in any one yesr in good faith for the de-
velopment Of all the claims 80 owned or
held, not exceeding five, there shall be
no requirement for separate labor or i'm
rrovements to be performed or made on
the several claims SO owned or held dur
ing such year. The year within which
the annual labor or Improvements re.
quired to be performed or made by this
section shall commence at IL o'clock me-
ridian on the first day of October of each
year: Provided, That upon claims located
previous to the first day Of March in any
year the annual labor or improvements
shall be performed or made on such
claim for that year prior to 12 o'clock
meridian Of the 6rst day of October next
succeeding; and upon claims located
after the last day Of February and prior
to IL o'clock meridian Of the first day Of
October in any year the annual labor or
improvements required shall be perform
ed or made prior to 10 O'Clock meridian
of the FIRST day OF the next following Oc-
tober: And provided further, Thai only
one half of the annual labor or improve
ments required by this act shall bc nee
essary to be performed or made prior to
12 o'clock meridian of the first day Of
October, in the year 1889, ON claims upon
which the annual labor or improvement
were performed or made in the year 1888;
but after the first day Of October, in the
improvements required by this act shall
be performed or made upon such claims
a. in all other cases during each year
prior to IL O'Clock meridian of the first
day of October. In case the first day Of
October falls on Sunday or any holiday
the following secular day shall be con-
strued as the first day Of October within
the meaning of this act. When the labor
required BY this act shall have been per-
formed 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 district
in which such claims are situated, and If
there he none then with the recorder of
deeds of the county in which the claim
or mine is situated, particularly descriL-
ing the labor performed and improve
ments made, and the value thereof. which
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