Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-27
JOHN LAFABRE, Receiver.
NJ. A. No. 453.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
U. S. LAND oTFIcH RAPID City, DAK., !

U.S. LAND YFICB RAPID CITY, OAK, |
February IS, 1889.
Notice is hereby given that he Fin Mountain
Company, by It's agent, Alfred l.. Siyyer, whose
post0ftice address is Custer, Custer Co., Dakota,
has this day filed its application for a patent for
fifteen hundred linear feet OF the Empire lode,
mine or vein bearing tim and other metals, with
surface ground three hundred feet In width,
situated III Custer mining district, county OF
Custer and territory OF Dakota, and designated
by the field notes and official plat on file In this
Office as lot number h52, east OF the Black Hills
Meridian; said lot number $50 being described
as follows, to-wit:
Requiring at the southeast corner of the
clam, a pine post 5x5 inches, 8 IT long, set on
solid rock, surrounded by a mound OF rocks, 2 IL
high. marked No. | on one side ald M. {. 652 on
the opposite side for corner No. /. From which
cor. e. s. Loo. Monument No. SO bears south, 8
deg, 80 min west, 1875 II dist, corner No. 4. Nj.
c. 553. Tin Mountain lode, bears north, sc deg
north, "a deg east, 81 IT dist, marked b. ID a
pine tree IA inches in diameter, bears north, 80
deg, 80 min west, "a IT dist, Gmarked b. I'd
| Thence first course, south, Sc deg, 90 min west,
432 II TO a pine post 5x5 inches. 4 1t high, l IT in
ground, and in mound Of dirt 2 It high, marked
y. s., from which discovery cut 5Nl0x6 IT face
bears north, ZIG deg, As min west, l65 II dist, 1910
# to intersection OF the east end line OF Gray tin
lode, i'm conflict (unsuryeyed), 14l0 II 10 corner
No. 3, NJ. G. 553, 1890 IT to corner NO. 2, IRON
/, which corner No. 3, Nj. c. 553, bears north, 81 deg
| east, 90 fl dist, a pine tree IA inches in diameter,
bears north, So deg east, 81 IT dist, marked w.
f., q pine tree Is inches diameter, bears n0rth,
60 deg, 80 min east, @.5 II dist, unarked Is. -
Thence second course, north, 2 deg, 30 min west,
900 fl to corner No. 3. Thence third course,
north, Sc deg, 90 min east, rs fl TO north side Inc
Of Gray tin lode, from which point on same line
the conflict of Gray tin lode runs south, 81 DEG,
II min east, AIS II TO northeast corner OF sald
Gray tin lode, thence south, "A deg, 10 mn Nest,
| AS ft to the intersection on south side line course
No. u of NJ. c.. 552, $40 IT 10 intersection OF west
side line OF Clarence lode (unsurveyed) III CON
fict. 735 II TO east side line OF Clarence lode,
from which point on line, said east SIDE me OF
| Clarence lode, bears soth, ~ deg, ID MIN west,
36I.5 II, thence north, 81 deg, IL min west. 3O7 II,
thence north, 4Odeg, 45 min east, ~ IL, 10 inteT-
| section with west side line course No. 8. NJ. &.
553}, 1900 II to corner No. 4. Thence fourth
course, south, 9 deg, 80 min east, II 70 corner
| No. | and place of beginning, containing
| 1888 acres. Conflict with Gray tin lode 2.ll
acres. Conflict with Clarence lode l,69 acres.
Total amount in conflict, not claimed, $50 acres.
Total amount claimed, 6.S acres. Magnetic
variation, 10 deg, 80 min 4, containing 6-53 acres,
The location OF this mine Is recorded In the
Register of Deeds Office Of Custer county, ID. T.,
In Book 8 Of Locations, at page 32l. The adloin-
ing claimants are on west and north the Clarence
and Gray tin lode~, on south Tin Mountain lode.