The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-02-15
MINING LAWS.
EsoR THE INFORMATION OF
II ALL
Owners and LocatOrs
OF MINES.
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS.
Tunnel flights.
THELAW IN REGARD TO ALIENS.
APPLICATION FOR PATENT.

Will the htBIslci anu aO'Vi'Si my
become part OF the record, and can
neither be Withdrawn nor returned,
but must be transmitted TO the Cen
eral Office.
An application will be rejected
when the description OF the premises
Is erroneous or insufficient.
Application for patent will be re-
jected berause:
First--The notice was published
without the knowledge of the Regis
ter.
Second-The notice was not pub
lished in "A newspaper designated as
publ she'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which was Withdrawn pending suit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
Q claim.
Wn-re The claim was not located in
accordance with law.
Where several parties own separate
and distinct portions of claim. APP
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
mining claim all should join in an
application for q 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-
braced in one application for patent,
except for placer claims embracing
two or more lodes within their bound
aries.
Papers sworn to before any person
purporling to act as deputy for the
Register and Receiver cannot be re-
corded as evidence.
III all patents for mining claims
situated within the interior boundar-
~ Of town site Il clause il in ,ertad
excepting aud excluding all town
property, rights upon the surface. and
all houses, buildings. structures, lots.
blocks, streets, alleys, or other NUM-
cipal provements not belonging to
the grantee herein, and all rights
necessary or proper to the occupation.
possession or enjoyment ofthe same
Publication of notice must be made
only in one newspaper for the period
Of sixty days.
Notice must be published ten con-
secutise weeks in weekly newspapers,
and in daily papers sixty days must
elapse between the first and last in
sertions.
Where the Register designates tho
daily issue OF a newspaper for the
publication of notices of a mining ap-
plication for patent it is not In com
pliauce with the law 10 charge to the
weekly edition of the same paper
without authority oil the Register.
The existence of salt spring on n
tract OF land withdraws 1t from tho
operations OF the homes teid AMI pre-
emption 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 it is alleged con.
fiicis with the premises owned by
such adverse claimant.
Tie papers in an sdverse claim
once filed, cannot lie withdrawn, but
become part of the record.
When an adverse claim has been
filed it cannot be amended so as 10
embrace larger portion of the premi.
ses than that described in the original
adverse claim.
And adverse claim must be made
out in proper form and filed in the
proper local Office during tie period
of publication OF the application to be
effective.
1t is the duty of the adverse claim
ant to commence suit In proper form
within, the, required time, and if he
iDtrists the uncertain medium OF the
United States mail he must abide the
consequences, should delay ensue,
through misfortune or accident.
Should the failure TO commence suit
be the result OF the corrupt or dishon-
sst action OF his attorneys, the Inte-