The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-17
WYMAN'S MINING Law.
Information for Those Who Delve for
the Earth's Hidden Treasure.

Information for Those Who Delve f
}, the Earth's Hidden Treasure.
SECrI0N |. That section 300 of Ii
revised statutes Of Idaho be amended I
read A. lows:
| Section 800. Mining claims hereafte
located npou veins or lodes of quarts, &
other rock in place bearing any of til
metals or other valuable deposits men
toned in section 1890 of the revised sts,
utes of the United States, may extend {
300 feet on each side of the middle of til
vein or lode: Provided, That when th
locstors have set stakes, posts or monu
ments described in section 3 hereof, (
indicate the line of the vein, ledge o
lode, such stakes, posts or monument
must be taken for the purposes of sucI
location, to mark correctly the line there
of, and such line must not afterwards b
changed so as to affect rights acquired o
interfere with any locations made subse
quept thereto,
SEC. 2. Section 3101 of the revised
statutes of Idaho be amended to read a
follows;
Section 3101. The locator, At tho tim,
of making the discovery of such vein OF
lode, must erect monument at suct
place Of discovery, upon which he must
place bis name, the name of the claim
the date of discovery and distance claimed
along the vein each way from such mon
ument. Within three days from the date
of discovery, he must mark the boundarie,
of bis claim by establishing at each cor.
ner thereof, and at any angle in the side
lines, monument marked with the name
of the CLAIM aud the corner or angle it
represents; also at the time of so marking
his boundaries, he must post at his dis j.
covery monument bis notice of location
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 mid
die of the LEDGE sixth, the distance and
direction from the discovery, monument
to such natural object or permanent mon
if any such there be, a. will fix
and describe in the notice itself the locs-
ton of the claim; and seventh, the name
of the mining district, county and state.
When, from any cause, a monument can
not be safely planted at the true corner
Or angle, it may be placed a. near thereto
- practicable, and 80 marked az to indi-
cate the place of such corner or angie.
may be made of any such
material or form as will readily give no.
ice, and when of poats or trees, they must
De hewn and marked upon the side facing
owards the discovery, and must be at
east four inches square or in diameter.
Monuments must be ut least four feet
Ugh above the ground, and trees must
'e so hewn as to readily attract attention.
1t the time the locator 90 marks the
boundaries of his claim, he may do so in
ny direction that will not interfere with
lights or claims which existed prior to
lis discovery.
SEC. 8. Within sixty days after such
ocation, the locator or his assigns, must
ink shaft upon the lode to the depth OF
t least 10 feet from the lowest part of
be rim of such shaft at the surface, and
not less than 16 square feet area. Any
xcavatlon which shall cpt such vein 10
'et from the lowest part of the rim of
UGH shaft and which shall measure 100
ubic feet in extent shall be con.idered a
ompliance with this provision. Any To-
ated CLAIM upon which work has been
one in compliance, with the above re-
uirements is not, unless abandoned, SUBJ
'ct to relocation for period of 30 dayal
'om and after the date of location.
Sec. 4. Within 30 days after the loca-
on Of the claim the locator or his assigns
lust file for record in the Office of the
'unty recorder of the county or of the
equity recorder of the mining district in
hich the claim is situated substantial
'Py of his notice Of location.
SEC. 8. # at any time the locator of
y mining claim heretofore or hereafter
Gated, or his assigns, shall apprehend
at his original certificate was defective,
roneous, or that the requirements Of the
W had not been complied with before
ing, OF shall be deairous of changing
e surface boundaries, or of taking any ,
'rt Of An overlapping claim which has
ZEN abandoned, or in case the original ,
rtidcate was made prior to. the passage .
this law, and he shall be DESTROYS Of 4
curing the benefits of this Act, such To-.
tor or bis assigns may file an additional c
rtidcate subject to the conditions Of this t
i and to contain all that this Act re-
ired an original. certificate to contain. :
'ovidsd, That auch amended location
20 not interfere with the existing rights
others ut the time when such amend. /.
mt 10 made.
SEC. 9. Within 90 days after any time '