The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-10

the fee for recording the same when the
oath is taken before any other officer
authorized to administer oaths shall be
so cents.
Such affidavit, or certified copy thereof
in case the original is lost, shall be prims
facie evidence of the Performance of such
labor. The failure to Gle such affidavit,
shall be considered prima facie evidence
that such labor has not been done.
SEC. Z. The location Of abandoned
claims shall be done in the sams mamie,
a. if the location were Of new claim
but the locator may, instead Il sinking Z
new discovery shaft, sink the original
discovery shaft ten feet deeper than It W,
at the time of his location, or be may drive
the open cut or tunnel ten feet furths,
along the course of the lead, lode OF vein,
and must erect new posts or monuments
SEC. 8. No location notice shall cla,m
more than one location, whether the loca.
tion 10 made By one or several locators
and if it purport to claim more than one
location it is absolutely void.
SEC. 8. That section 3l0s Of tho re.
vised statutes Of Idaho 10 hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section 310S. For the convenience oil
prospectors aud locators, the county re-
cerders of the several counties must ap
point deputy at any place whore he may
deem it necessary, and at ell places more
than 30 miles distant from an existing
Office whenever ten or more mining loca.
tors interested, petition for tho appoint.
ment Of deputy. Upon failure of Any
recorder to appoint deputy for ten days
after the petition in writing has been
presented to him, tho resident miners in
such district may appoint temporarily
one Of their number to act a. the recorder
for the district, whose record shall be a
valid Is if made BY the deputy, and mus,
be entered BY the recorder rs hereinafter
required: PROVIDED, That whenever .,
any time afterwards, the recorder has ap.
pointed q deputy for such district OF
place, the authority of the person elected
by the resident miners ceases.
SEC. 10. When the right to mine Is in
any case separate from the ownership OF
right OF occupancy of tho surface ground,
the owners or rightful occupants Of the
surface ground may demand satisfactory
security from the miners, and if it DO re-
fused OK not given, may enjoin such miners
from working such ground until such
security is given. The court granting the
writ Of injunction shall tx the amount
and nature Of the security. e
SEC. II. Placer claims, Is mentioned
in section 1929 Of the revised statute. OF
the United States, may be located for the
purpose Of mining deposits and precious
stones after the discovery Of such dc.
posts.
Skc. 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 comply with ell the requirements
of sections 2 and 3 Of this Act. Every
placer claim must be recorded within 80
days from the time of the location thereof
in the district in which the same is sit.
ustcd, or in tho Office Of the county re.
corder of the county wherein the claim ii
situated. The location notice thereof
must contain the date Of the location, the
name Of the locator, the name and dimen.
sions Of the claim aid must also give such
= description of the locality thereof BY
reference to natural landmarks or ikea
objects and contiguous clsims, it any, al
to render the situation Of the same reas
onsbly certain from the letter of the no.
tice itself.
SEC. IL. That section 31O4 of the re.
vjsed statutes of Idaho be anended t
read - follows:
Section 8lO4. At or before the time Of
presenting . location notice for record
whether it be for quartz or placer claim
one Of the lOcators named in the same
must make and subscribe an affidavit, il
writing on or attached to the notice, sub
stxntisliy in the following form, to-wit
State Of Idaho, county of........ss.
/, $780,, do solemnly swear that an
= citizen Of the United States of Americs
Cor have declared my intentions to be
come sach and that / am acquainted
with the mining ground described in thi'
notice Of location, and herewith called tue
........ ledge, lode or claim; that the
ground and claim therein described Of
any part thereof has not to the best o.
my knowledge and belief been located
according to the laws Of the United State,
and OF this state, or II 20 located, that the
same has been abandoned or forfeited BY
reason Of the failure Of such former 10.
Gators to comply in respect thereto with
the requirements OF SAID laws, and Gu
case OF quartz cisims) that bave opened
new ground TO the extent Or depth Of ter
teet ~ required by the laws Of Idaho.
Signature, 49,. .....
2uksacrii,ed and sworn to before me this