The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-04-17

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 prima
facie evidence of the performance of such
labor. The failure to file 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 same manner
as if the location were of new claim
but the locator may, instead of sinking a
new discovery shaft, sink the original
discovery shaft ten feet deeper than it was
at the time of his location, or he may drive
the open cut or tunnel ten feet further
along the course of the lead, lode or vein,
and must erect new posts or monuments.
SEC. g. No location notice shall CLAIM
more than one location, whether the loca-
ton is made by one or several locators,
and if. it purport to claim more than one
location it is absolutely void.
SEC. 9. That section 3103 of the re-
vised statutes of Idaho is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section 3103. For the convenience of
prospectors and locators, the county re
csrders Of the several counties must ap-
point deputy at any place where he may
deem it necessary, and at all places more
than 20 miles distant from an existing
office whenever ten or more mining loca-
tors interested, petition for the 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, the resident miners in
such district 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 entered by the recorder as hereinafter
required: ProDaded, That whenever at
any time afterwards, the recorder has ap-
pointed a deputy for such district or
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 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 re-
fused or 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.
SEC. IL. Placer claims, as mentioned
IN section 1929 of the revised statutes of
The United States, may be located for the
purpose OF mining deposits and precious
stones after the discovery of such de-
posits.
SEC. 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 all the requirements
Of sections 2 and Of this Act. Every
placer claim must be recorded within 80
lays from the time of the location thereof,
n the district in which the same is sit
lated, or in the office of the county re-
;order OF the county wherein the claim is
The location notice thereof
must contain the date of the location, the
name of the locator, the name and dmen-
'ious of the claim and must also give such
4 description of the locality thereof by
reference to natural landmarks or fixed
objects and contiguous claims, it any, as
10 render the situation of the same reas-
)nably certain from the letter of the no.
ice itself.
SEC. 13. That section 31O4 of the re-
7ised statutes of Idaho be amended to
:ead as follows:
Section 3104. At or before the tine of
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, in
writing on or attached to the notice, sub
stantially in the following form, to- wit:
State OF Idaho, county of........ss.
/. ......, do solemnly swear that l am
l citizen of the United States of America
>or have declared my intentions to be.
come such) and that l am acquainted
with the mining ground described in this
lotlce Of location, and herewith called the
........ ledge, lode or claim; that the
ground and claim therein described or
my part thereof has not to the best of
ny knowledge and belief been located
to the laws Of the United States
md of this state, or if SO located, that the
same has been abandoned or forfeited by
'eason of the failure of such former To-
gators to comply In respect thereto with
he requirements of SAID laws, and lin
Ease OF quartz ciaims) that have opened
lew ground TO the extent or depth of ten
eet as required by the laws OF Idaho.
Signature, -.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
day of .... A. ID. 49,.
Signature,
SEC. IA. That section 31O5 of the re-
Used statutes of Idaho Is amended SO rs