Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-04-02

ton, in which must be stated:
First, the name of the locator;
second, the name of the claim;
third, the date Of discovery; fourth,
the direction and distance claimed
along the ledge from the discovery;
fifth, the distance claimed on each
side of the middle of the ledge;
sixth, the distance and direction
from the discovery monument to
such natural object or permanent
monument, if any such there be,
as will fix and describe in the no.
tice itself the location of the claim;
and seventh, the name of the min
ing district, county and State.
When, from any cause, a monu-
ment can not be safely planted at
the true corner or angle, it may be
placed as near thereto as practical
BILE, and so marked as to indicate
the place of such corner or angle.
Monuments may be made of any
such material or form as will read
lily give notice, and when of posts
or trees they must be hewn and
marked upon the side facing toward
the discovery, and must be at least
4 inches square or in diameter.
Monuments must be at least 4 feet
high above the ground, and trees
must be so hewn as the readily az
tract attention. At the time the
locator so marks the boundaries of
his claim, he may do so in any di-
rection that will not interfere with
rights or claims which existed
prior to his discovery.
Sec. 8. Within 60 days after
such location the locator or his
assigns must sink shaft upon the
lode to the depth of at least ten
feet from the lowest part of the rim
of such shaft at the surface, and of
not less than Is square feet area.
Any excavation which shall cut
such vein 10 feet from the lowest
part of the rim of such shaft and
which shall measure 100 cubic feet
in extent shall be considered a
compliance with this provision.
Any located claim upon which
work has been done in compliance
with the above requirements is not,
unless abandoned, subject to relo-
cation for a period of 80 days from
and after the date of location.
Sec. 4. Within 80 days after
the location Of the claim the loca-
tor or his assigns must file for
record in the Office of the county
recorder of the county or of the
deputy recorder of the mining dis.
trict in which the claim is situated
a substantial copy Of his notice Of
location.
Sec. 5. If at any time the 10
Gator of any mining claim hereto
fore or hereafter located, or hi,
assigns, shall apprehend that hi
original certificate was defective
erroneous, OR that the require
ments of the law had not beer
complied with before filing, OF
shall be DESTROYS of securing tn,
benefits of this act, such locator
or his assigns, may file an add
tional certificate subject to the con
ditions of this act and to contain
ali that this act required an origi.
nal certificate to contain: Provi
ded, That such amended location
does not interfere with the existing
rights ef others at the time whel
such amendment is made.
| Sec. 6. Within 80 days afte
any time set or period allowed fol
the performance of labor or max
ing improvements upon any lode
or placer claim, the person il
whose behalf such work or i'm
provement is performed, or som,
person for him, must make and re
cord an affidavit in substance a.
follows:
State oil Idaho, County of...... &c. -, S.
Il Before me. the subscribed, personally appear
ed........:"..... who, being FIRST duly sworn. say
that at least......dollsrs worth Of work or i'm
County of........... State OF Idaho; that such ex
penditnre was made by, for or at the expens
of......;;.;, owners OF said claim, for the puI
pose OF holding said claim.
| olgnature..............
Subscribed and sworn to before me thi
.................day of..".....-..1ss...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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