Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-13
N. a. NO. TJ3.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.


u, y. LAND FE1CR RAPID iITS, DAK.t
February Is, 1889.
Notice is hereby given that the Tin Mountain
Company, by its agent, Alfred l.. Sivyer, whose
postOtfice 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 OF 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
by the field notes and official plat on file in this
office as lot number 552, east OF the Black Hills
Meridian; said lot number 552 being described
as follows, tO-Wit:
Beginning at the southeast corner OF the
claim, a pine post 5X5 inches, s fl long, set OH
solid rock, surrounded by "a mound OF rocks, Q #
high, marked No. | on one side and M. G. $50 O"
the opposite side for corner No. /. From which
cor. u. s.. Loc. Monument No. So bears south, 8
deg, 30 min west, 1885 it dist, corner No. 4. NJ.
G. 553. Tin Mountain lode, bears north, Sc deg
east 40 #, a pine tree Is inches in diameter bears
north, "A deg east, 81 II dist, marked Il. To a
pine tree ii inches in diameter, bears north, 80
deg, 80 min west, "a fl dist, marked b. IT,
Thence first course, south, Sc deg, 90 min west,
432 IL 20 a pine post SKI inches. 4 II high. 1 II in
ground, and In mound Of dirt 2 II high, marked
i. s., from which discovery cut 5yiOx6 # face
bears north, 26 deg, 45 min west, 1865 # dist, 1910
fl to intersection Of the east end line OF Gray tin
lode, In conflict uunsuryeyed), li10 II to corner
No. 3, NJ. c. 553, 1900 II to corner No. 2, from
which corner No. 3, Nj. C.. 653, bears north, SO deg
east, 90 Il dist, a pine tree Ia inches in diameter,
bears north, 50 deg east, 81 f. dist, 0marked w.
r., a pine tree &c inches diameter, bears north,
~ utS, ID IiiI tdSi, VIZ j uiSts tudi nVh III. Il y
Thence second course, north, 2 deg, 80 min west,
300 IL 10 corner No. 3. Thence third course,
north, Sc deg, 90 min east, % 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, AIS fl to northeast corner Of said
Gray tin lode, thence south, "a deg, Is ain west,
IS fl TO the intersection on south side lire course
No. II of Nj. G. 552, $40 Il to intersection OF west
side line Of Clarence lode Oufsurveyed) in con-
tlict. 735 II To east side line of Clarence lode,
from which point on line, said east side line OF
Clarence lode, bears soth, 40 deg, IS min west,
364.5 Il, thence north, 81 deg, IL min west. 307 II,
thence north, 40 deg, 45 min east, l2S II, To inter-
section with west side line course No. 3. NJ. e.
553), 1900 II to corner No. 4. Thence fourth
course, south, 2 deg, 80 min east, 800 # to corner
No. l and place Of beginning, containing
1898 acres. Conflict with Gray tin lode 2.ll
acres. Conflict with Clarence lode 100 acres.
Total amount i'm conflict, not claimed, $50 acres.
Total amount claimed, 6.3 acres. Magnetic
variation, 10 deg, 30 min T., containing $50 acres.
The location OF this mine is recorded In the
Register Of Deeds Office of Custer county, II. T.,
in Book 8 OF Locations, at page 321. The adjoin-
ing claimants are on west and north the Clarence
and Gray tin l0des, on south Tin Mountain lode.