Arizona silver belt., 1896-12-31
THE LOCATION AND RELOCA'
 TION OF MINING CLAIMS.

There appears to be good deal of misconception amongst miners and prospectors regarding the United States and territorial laws in respect to mining locations.
 The United States statute requires that the location must be distinctly marked on the ground, so that its boundaries can be readily traced. All records of mining claims shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date af location, and such a descrip- ton of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim.
 On each claim located after the tenth cay of May, eighteen hundred and seventy.two, and until patent has been issned therefor, not less than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.
 The first annual assessment work shall be performed during the calendar year succeeding the year in which the location was made, and work per formed during the year in which the location was made shall not apply to the first years assessment. For in stance, a location made on the first day of January, 1896, holds until Jan nary l, 1898, and is not relocatable until the latter date. Work performed during 1896 will not count as assess ment work under the U. $. statute, but the entire one hundred dollars worth of work must be done during 1897, which secures the locator's pos. session of the claim until January l, 1899.
 The Arizona law entitled "An Act Concerning Mines." approved March 20, 1895, follows the U. s. statute ip all material requirements and provides further that loeators of mining claims before filing such location with the county recorder shall sink discovery shaft upon the premises so claimed to a depth of at least ten feet from the lowest part of the rim of such shaft at the surface, and deeper if necessary, until there is shown by such work a lode deposit, or mineral in place, and furthermore shall post at the point of discovery, on the surface, plain sign or notice substantially conforming to the location certificate.
 Surface boundaries shall be marked by eight substantial posts or stone monuments projecting at least three feet above the surface of the ground one at each corner of said claim, and one at the center of each eud and side line thereof
 Any open cut, cross-cut, adit or tun. mel made which shall he equal in amount of work to shaft ten feet deep and four feet wide by six fee, long. and which shall cut lode ol mineral in place at depth of ten feet from the surface shall be equivalent, as discovery work, to a shaft sunk from the surface.
 The discoverer shall have ninety days from the date of discovering thu lode and the posting of the notice thereon in which to perform such dis eovery work.
 The relocation of fortsited or aban doned lode claims shall only be mad' by sinking new discovery shaft ant fixing new boundaries, or the relocatol may sink the original discovery shaf ten feet deeper and make the old mon uments the satae as originally repaired In either case new location monu ment shall be erected and the location certificate shall state if the whole O any part of the new location is locate, as abandoned property.