The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-05-08

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so cents.
Such affidavit, or a certified copy thereof
in case the original is lost, shall be prims
facie evidence of the performance of such
labor. The failure to 6Ie 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
aud must erect new posts or monuments
SEC. s. No location notice shall clam,
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. 8. That section 31O3 of the re.
vised statutes Of Idaho is hereby
amended TO read as follows:
Section 31O3. For the convenience OF
prospectors and locators, the county re
csrders Of the several counties must APP
point deputy at any place where he may
deem it necessary, and at all places more
than 90 miles distant from an existing
office whenever ten or more mining loca-
tors interested, petition for the appoint
ment Of u 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 rs
valid as if made BY the deputy, and must
be entered by the recorder as hereinafter
required: fr0usded, That whenever at
any time afterwards, the recorder has ap,
pointed a deputy for such district Or
place, the authority of the person elected
10y 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 he re-
fused or not given, may epjoin such miners
from working such ground until sucl,
security is given. The court granting the
writ Of injunction shall Tx the amour.
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 Ut SUCH de-
posits.
SEC. IL. The locator Of any placer
mining claim, located for the Ipose
Of mining placer deposits or precious
stones, must at the time Of making lii,
location comply with iii the Requirements
placer claim must be recorded within ~
| days from the time of the location thereof
III the district i'll which the same is Sit
uated, or in the office of the county re.
corder of the county wherein the Claim il
rad
must contain the date of the location, the
name of the locator, the name and dimen
sions OF the Claim and must also give suci
description OF the locality thereof by
reference to natural Landmarks or hxeu
objects and contiguous claims, il any, NJ
TO render the situation Of the same reas
onably certain from the letter Of the no
tice itself.
SEC. ID. That section 31O4 of the re
vised statutes of Idaho be an.eDdcd t.
read as follows:
Section 3lO4. At or before the tine Of
presenting location notice for record
whether it be for quartz or placer claim
one of the lUcatOrs named in the same
| must make and subscribe an affidavit, in
writiD. on or attached to the notice, sub
stantia!ly in the following form, to- Wit
State OF Idaho, county OF. IS.
l, ..., do sOIemniy swear that an
citizen of the Uniteo States of Americs
Cor have declared my intentions to BE-
come sacb) and that l am acquainted
with the mining ground described in this
| notice Of location, and herewith called the
........ ledge, lode or claim; that the
ground and claim therein described Vi
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 it SO located, that the
same has been abandoned or forfeited by
reason of the failure Of such former To-
Gators to comply In respect thereto with
the requirements OF SAID laws, and lin
case OF quartz claims) that have opened
new ground 10 the extent or depth Vt ten
feet as required by the laws Of Idaho.
Signature, -. ......
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
-. day OF $500. A. ID. l89
Signature, -. ......
SEC. IA. That section 31O5 of the re-
vised statutes of Idaho Is amended 50 as
to read as follows, to wit:
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