The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-01-18
MINING LAWS.
EoR THE INFORMATION OF
T. ALL
Owners and LocatorS
OF MINES.
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS.
Tunnel Rights.
THE LAW IN REGARD TO ALIENS.
APPLICATION FOR PATENT.

Where papers have once been filed
with The Register aud Receiver they
become part of The record, and can
neither he Withdrawn nor returned,
but must be transmitted TO the Gen.
eral Office.
An application will be rejected
when the description Of the premises
l. erroneous or insufficient.
Application for a patent will be re-
jected be- ause:
First--Tne notice was published
without The knowledge OF the Regis
ter.
Second-The notice Was not pub
lished IN newspaper designated as
publ he'd nearest the claim.
Third The record OF title was found
defective, and
Fourth-A previous application had
been made for the same premises,
which WAS Withdrawn pending suit
in Court, commenced by the adverse
claimant.
An application for a patent will be
rejected when the survey does not
accurately define the boundaries Of
n claluI.
Nh.re he claim was not located in
accordance with law.
Where several parties own separate
and distinct portions OF claim. ap-
plication for patent may he made by
either for that portion of the claim
owned by him; Tut where several
parties own undivided interests in a
mining claim AL should join in an
application for patent
A person or association may pur-
chase as many placer claims as the
local law admits, and embrace them
all in one application for patent.
Two or more lodes cannot be en-
braccd in one application for patent,
except for placer claims embracing
two or more lodes within their bound
aries.
Papers sworn 10 before any person
purporting TO act as deputy for the
Register and Receiver cannot be re-
corded as evidence.
In all patents for mining claims
situated within the interior boundar-
les OF town site clause Is inserted
"excepting aud excluding ail town
property, rights upon the surface. and
all houses, buildings, structures, lots,
blocks, streets, alleys. or other muni-
cipal improvements not belonging 10
the grantee herein, and all rights
necessary or proper To the occupation.
possession or enjoyment OF the same.o
Publication of notice must be made
only in one newspaper for the period
Of sixty days.
Notice must be published ten con-
seculiye weeks in week ly newspapers,
and in daily papers sixty days must
elapse between the first aud last in
sertions.
Where the Register designates the
daily issue OF newspaper for the
publication of notices of mining ap-
plication for a patent II Is not in com
pliance with the law 10 change 10 the
weekly edition OF the same paper
without authority of the Register.
The existence of u salt spring on
tract OF land withdraws 1t from the
operations OF the homestead and pre-
enption laws A hearing for the
purpose of proving the agricultural
character of such land is not allowed.
Land containing valuable deposits OF
slate may be entered under the mining
acts.
ADVERSE CLAIMS.
Adverse claimants must flo separ-
ate and distinct claim against each
application which 1t Is alleged con-
ilicts with the premises owned by
such adverse claimant.
Tie papers in an sdverse claim,
once filed, cannot be Withdrawn, but
become part OF the record.
When an adverse claim has been