The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-03-23

OF this law, and he shall be DESTROYS of
securing the benefits of this act, such
| locator or his assigns, may file an ad
ditional certificate subject to conditions
of this act aud to contain all that this
act required an original certificate to
contain. Provided, That such amended
location does not interfere with the ex-
listing rights of Others ut the time when
such amendment is made,
SEC. q. Within To days after any
time set or period allowed for the per
formance of labor, or making improve
ments upon any lode or placer claim,
the person in whose behalf such work
or improvement is performed, or some
person for him must make and record
an affidavit in substance as follows:
State of Idaho, county of, .., IS.
Before HE, the subscribed personally
appeared. 5000. who, being first duly
sworn, says that at least dollars
worth of work or improvements were
performed or made upon 49,. claim,
situate in 49,. mining district, county
of $500. state of Idaho; that such ex-
penditure was made by, for or at the
expense of. go. owners of said claim,
for the purpose of holding said claim.
Signature. INSTRUMENTATION.
Subscribed and sworn to before ME
this, . . day of =, lS9..
The fee for administering the oath
and recording the foregoing affidavit,
when taken before the county recoder
or deputy mining recorder, shall be 80
cents; the fee for recording the same
when the oath is taken before any
other officer authorized TO administer
oaths shall be - cents.
Such affidavit, or certified copy
thereof in case the original is lost, shall
be prima facie evidence of the perform
ance of such labor. The failure TO file
such affidavit shall be considered prima
facie evidence that such labor has not
been done.
SEC. !. The location of abandoned
claims shall be done in the same man
ner as if the location were of new
claim; but the locator may, instead of
sinking a new discovery shaft, sink the
original discovery shaft ten feet deeper
than 1t was at the time of his location,
or he may drive the open cut, or tunuel
ten feet further along the course of the
lead, lode or vein, and must erect new
posts or monuments.
SEC. 5. No location notice shall
claim more than one location, whether
the location is made by one or several
locators, and if it purport to claim more
than one location it is absolutely void.
SEC. 9. That section 3lO3 of the re-
vised statutes of Idaho is hereby amen
ded to read rs follows:
Section 3l03 For the convenience of
proSpectors and locators, the county
recorders of the several counties must
appoint deputy at any place where he
may deem it necessary, and * all places
more than 70 miles distan. from an
existing Office whenever ten or more
mining locators interested, petition for
the appointment of a deputy. Upon
failure of any recorder to appoint a
deputy for ten days after the petition
in writing has been presented to him.
the resident miners in such district
may appoint, temporarily, one Of their
number to act as the recorder for the
district, whose record shall be as valid
as If made by the deputy, and must be
entered by the recorder as hereinafter
required: Provided, That whenever at
any time afterwards, the recorder has
appointed deputy for such district or
place, the authority OF the person
elected by the resident miners ceases.
SEC. 10. When the right to mine is
in any case separate from the owner
ship or right of occupancy OF the sur
face ground. the owners or rightlul
occupant of the surface ground NAV
demand satisfactory security from the
and if it be refused or not given,
may enjOin such miners from working
such ground until such security is
given. The court granting the writ OF
shall fix the amount and
nature of the security.
SEC. II. Placer claims, as mentioned 4
in section 1929 of tie revised statutes of
the United states, may be located for
the purposes of mining deposits and
precious stones after the discovery of
such deposits
SEC. II. The locator of any placer
mining claim, located for the purpose
Of mining placer deposits or precious
stones, must at the time Of making the
location comply with all the require
ments of section aud 3 of this act
Every placer claim must be recorded
within 80 days from the time Of the
location thereof in the district in which
the same is situated or in the Office of
the county recorder Of the county v here
in the claim is situated. The location
notice thereof must contain the date Of 7
the location, the name OF the locator.
the name and dimensions Of the claim
and must also give such a description
Of the locality thereof by reference to
natural land marks or fixed objects and
contiguous claims, if any, as to render
the situation of the same reasonably ,
certain from the letter of the notice
itself.
SEC. l3. That section 3lOi Of the re-
read as follows: