The Anaconda standard., 1895-12-02
FROM THE INTERIOR.
Register Evans Receives Cif3niar Letter
of Great Interest.


,t,ssou,a nee 1-Register ]. NJ. Evans
of the local United States land office has
received the following circular letter
which is important to mining men:
"Denartment of the Interior, General
Land Office, Washington, ID. c., NOV. u
1895.
"Paragraphs go. so and 81 of the United
states Mining Laws and Regulations
Thereunder.' approved Dec. 10, 1891, are
amended TO read as follows:
ego This affidavit should be supported
bv appropriate evidence from the mining
recorders office as to his posseSsory
right as follows, viz: Where ne claims
to be the locator, or a locator In company
with others who have since conveyed
their interest in tn location to him, full,
| true and correct copy of such location
| notice should be furnished, as the same
appears upon the mining records; sucn
COPY to be attested by the seal OF the re-
corder, or IL he has no seal, tnen ne
should make oath to the same being cor
rect, as shown by his records. Where tne
applicant claims only as purchaser, a
| copy of the location record must be filed
under seal or upon oath as aforesaid,
with an abstract of title, under seal or
oath as aforesaid, brought down to date
| of filing the application, tracing the right
| of possession by a continuous chain OF
conveyances from the original locators
conveyances affecting the title to the
claim in question appear of record later
than those set forth in the accompanying
| abstract.
''The abstracts herein required may be
certified to by the proper recorder or by
any abstracter or abstract company, duly
| authorized by state or territorial statute
| IL abstracts so certified by abstracters or
| abstract companies are by statute re-
| ceivable as evidence in the courts of
| such state or territory, in the same man.
| ner and to like extent that abstracts cer-
| titled by the recorder are now admitted;
| provided, that proof be furnished that
| the abstracts so certified by abstracters
/ or abstract companies are receivable as
| evidence in the courts aforesaid.
go The rights granted to locators un-
| der section 1922, Revised Statutes, are re-
| stricted to such locations on veins, lodes
or ledges as may be situated on the pub
| lie domain In applications for lode
/ claims where the survey conflicts with a
| prior valid lode claim and the ground
| in conflict is excluded. the applicant moi
| only has no right to the excluded ground
| but he has no right to that portion OF
| any vein or lode the top or apex of which
lies within such excluded ground, unles:
| his location was prior to May 10, 1872
| His right to the lode claimed terminate:
where the lode in its onward course ol
| strike. intersects the exterior boundary
of such excluded ground and passes
within it. The end line of his survey
should not, therefore, be established be
yond such intersection. - ii'
''5i. Where, however, the lode claim fol
which survey is being made was 'locatet
prior to the conflicting claim. and suci
conflict is to be excluded. in order TO In
clude all ground not so excluded the enc
line of the survey may be established
within the conflicting lode claim. but tn
line must be so run as not to extend an,
farther into such conflicting claim thai
may be necessary to make such end lin
parallel to the other end line and at tn
same time embrace the ground so hel,
and claimed. The useless practice in sue
| cases of extending both the side lines o
the survey into the conflicting claim. an
establishing an end line wholly within
beyond a point necessary under the rul
just stated. will be discontinued. Yer
respectfully. At
IS. w. Lamoreux. Commissioner"
"Approved-Hoke Smith. Secretary Q
the Interior"