The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-08-22

mlnlDg CLAIMS nave Deen fruitful
source of Ii igatiou. The decisions
of the courts have pointed out
many of these defects, and exper.
ience has suggested beneficial leg
islation. In the code provisions
that went into effect on the first
day of last July an attempt was
made to profit by the experience
tnat had gone before, and to make
the title to mining claims more
certain and secure.
What is a discovery and how
is the claim to be iden titled? The
law now in force provides that any
citizen or person who has declared
his in ten ton to become a citizen,
who discovers a vein. or lode bear
ing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead,
tin, copper or other valuable de-
posits, or who discovers placer
deposit Of gold or other deposit of
mineral, including building stone,
limestone, marble, clay, sand or
other mineral substance having a
commercial value, may locate a
claim upon such vein, lode or
deposit in the manner following:
At the point of discovery he
must post a location notice con-
tanning
!. The name of the lode or
claim.
2. The name of the locator or
locators.
8. The date of1,ocation.
4. If a lode claim the number
of linear feet claimed in length
along the course of the vein, each
way from the point of discovery,
with the width on each side of the
center of the vein, and the general
course OF the vein or lode as near
as may be.
5. If a placer or mill site cl Tim,
the number of acres or superficial
feet claimed
This location notice is merely
preliminary to making location,
and need not lie sworn to or re-
corded. 1t has the effect of secur-
ing the rights of the. discoverer
for the period OF ninety days,
during which time he must sink a
shaft upon the lode or claim (mill
site claims excepted) to the depth
of at least 10 feet from the lowest
part of the rim to such shaft. to
the surface, or deeper, if necessary
to show well-defined crcvice OF
valuable dep sit On placer
claims the equivalent of such work
must be performed. A cut, {
cross-cut or tunnel which cuts
lode or vein at the depth of 1(
feet below the surface, on an oper
cut of at least 10 feet in length
along the lode from the point
where the lode may be in any
manner discovered, is equivalen
to discovery shaft. When dis
covery has been made and this
amount CT wosk has been per
formed, something of an opinion as
to the course or direction of the
vein or lode Will have been formed
so that the boundaries m y be in
telligently made. These bound
aries must be made and defined by
marking tree or rock in pace, OF
by setting post or stone at each
corner or angle of the claim. If 9
post is used il must be at least
four inches Square by four feet six
inches in height, set one foot in
the ground, with mound of earth
Or sttne four feet in diamhter by
two feet in height around the post
When stone is used, not a rock in
place, it must be at least inches
Square by Is inches in length, Sc,
two-thirds of its length in the
ground, which trees, stakes OF
monument is must be so marked as
to designate the corners.
Within 80 days after posting the
location notice at the point of dis
covery, there ast be filed in the
Office of the county clerk of the
county in which the lode or claim
, is situated, declaratory state
ment, under oath. which must con
tain:
, l. The name of the lode Of
claim.
2. The name of the locator O.
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