The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-11-08
MINING WIS.
EOR THE INFORMATION OF
ALL
Owners and Locators
OF MINES.
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS.
Tunnel Rights.
THE LAW IN REGARD TO ALIENS.
APPLICATION FOR PATENT.

with the Register and Receiver they
become part of the record, and can
neither be withdrawn nor returned,
but must be transmitted to the Gen
eral Office.
An application will be rejected
when the description of the premises
is erroneous or insufficient.
Application for patent will be re-
jected because:
First--The notice was published
without the knowledge of the Regis
ter.
Second-The notice was not pub
lished In newspaper designated as
published 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which was Withdrawn pending suit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 patent will be
rejected when the survey does not
accurately define the boundaries of
q claim.
Where the claim was not located in
ACCORDANCE WIFI law.
Where several parties own separate
and distinct portions Of claim, ap-
plication for patent may be made by
either for that portion Of the claim
owned by him; but where several
parties own undivided interests in a
mining claim all 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-
braced in one application for patent,
except for placer claims mbracing
two or more lodes within their bound
aries.
Papers sworn to before any person
purporting to act as a deputy for the
Register and Receiver cannot be re-
corded as evidence.
III all patents for mining claims
situated within the interior boundar-
les of a town site clause is inserted
excepting and excluding all town
property, rights upon The surface, and
all houses, buildings, structures, lots,
cipal improvements not belonging To
the grantee herein, and all rights
necessary or proper to the occupation,
possession or enjoyment of the same"
Publication of notice must be made
only in one newspaper for the period
Of sixty days.
Notice must be published ten con-
lsecutive weeks in weekly newspapers,
and in daily papers sixty days must
elapse between the first and last in
sertions.
Where the Register designates the
daily issue of newspaper for the
publication of notices of mining ap-
plication for patent it is not in COM
pliance with the law to change to the
weekly edition of the same paper
without authority of the Register.
The existence of a salt spring on a
tract of land withdraws 1t from the
operations of the homestead and 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 file separ-
ate and distinct claim against each
application which it is alleged con-
diets with the premises owned by
such adverse claimant.
The papers in an sdverse claim,
once filed, cannot be withdrawn, but
become part Of the record.
When an adverse claim has been
filed it cannot be amended so as to
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 the period
Of publication of the application to be
effective.
1t is the duty of the adverse claim
aut to commence suit in proper form
within the required time, and if he
intrusts 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-
est action Of his attorneys, the Ints-