Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-04-02
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Revised Statutes of Idaho is here
by amended to read as follows:
Section 31O3. For the conven-
fence of prospectors and locators,
the county recorders of the several
counties must appoint q deputy at
any place where he may deem it
necessary, and at all places more
than 20 miles distant from an ex-
listing Office whenever ten or more
mining locators interested petition
for the appointment of deputy.
Upon failure Of any recorder to APP
point a deputy for ten days after
the petition in writing has been
presented to him, the resident
miners 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 enter
ed by the recorder as hereinafter
required: Provided, That when
ever at any time afterwards the
recorder has appointed a deputy
for such district or place the au-
thority of the person elected by
the resident miners ceases.
Sec. 10. When the right to
mine is in any case separate from
the ownership or right Of occupancy
of the surface ground, the owners
or rightful occupants of the surface
ground may demand satisfactory
security from the miners, and if it
be refused or not given, may en-
join such miners from working
such ground until such security is
given. The court granting the
writ Of Injunction shall fix the
amount and nature of the security.
Sec. II. Placer claims, as mem
toned in section 1929 of the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States
may be located for the purpose of
mining deposits and precious stones
after the discovery of such deposits.
That Section IL be amended to
read as follows:
Section IL. 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, place
a substantial post or monument
as is required in the location of
quartz claims at each corner of the
location and must also post on one
of the same a notice of location
containing the date of the location,
the name Of the locator, the name
and dimensions of the claim, the
mining district (if any, and
County in which the same is sit
uated; and must also give the dis
lance and direction from said post
or monument to such natural OBJ
ject or permanent monument, if
any such there be, as will fix and
describe in the notice itself, the
location of the claim. Within fif-
teen days after making the loca-
ton the locator must make an ex-
cavation upon the claim of not less
than one hundred cubic feet for
the purpose of prospecting the
same. Within thirty days after
the location the locator must file
for record in the office of the couu-
ty recorder of the County or of the
Deputy Recorder of the mining
district in which the claim is situa-
ted, substantial copy of his copy
of his copy of notice of location, to
which must be attached an affida-
Wit such as is required in the case
of quartz claims.
| Sec. 13. That section 31Q4 of
the Revised Statutes of Idaho be
amended to read as follows:
Section 31O4. At or before the
time of presenting location no.
tice for record, whether it be for
quartz or placer claim, one of the
locators named in the same must
make and subscribe an affidavit, in
writing, on or attached to the no.
ii. s, substantially in the following
form, to-wit:
| State of Idaho. County of........... IS.
| I,......:.:., do solemnly'swear that am .
! citizen of the United States of America TOR have
declared my intention TO become such) and
that am acquainted with the mining ground
| described IN this notice Of location and here
with called the. ledge, lode or claim;
| that the ground and claim therein described or
| any part thereof has not to the best of my
knowledge and belief been located according
| to the laws Of the United States and OF this
! State, or II SO located that the same has been
abandoned or forfeited BY reason OF tae fail
| ure OF such former locators to comply In re-
| spect thereto with the requirements OF said
laws. and Tin case Of quartz claims) that have
| opened new ground to the extent or depth Of
| ten feet as required by the laws of Idaho.
Signature. ............
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this.
day of..-....A. D. l89...
tgnature...................... ......