Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-20
A. 7. FEAY, ATTORNEY.
NJ. A. No. 935.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
U. s. LAND OFFICE, RAPID CITY. s.

u. S. LAND OFFICE, Rapid city, s. D.,l
December II. 1896.
whose post Office address is Pringle, custer
County, South Dakota, has this day filed her
Application for a patent for 1888 acres of the
Point OF Rocks Placer Mine, bearing gold and
other minerals, with surface ground l55 50 acres,
situated N no organized mining district,
County OF Custer, aud State of South Dakota,
and designated by the field notes and Official
plat on file in this Office rs lot Number l1l3, in
Township ), South of Range 1, East of Black
Hills Meridian, said Lot No, lll3 being described
as follows, to-wit
Beginning at corner Number /, identical
with southeast corner of the location, u pine
post . feet long, 5 inches square, 2 feet in the
ground; with mound of earth, scribed cor. i
lll3, whence L.. S. Loo. Mon. No. u bears ~. a
deg u min. f.. 400 feet. Thence n, 20 deg. OF
min. w, var. 10 deg. 81 min. f., 270j f. to cor.
No. of NJ. {. 1000, 1924 feet to cor. No. =, a pine
post . IT.. long 8 inches square. 2 fl. in the
ground, with mound %ofstone, scribed cor. No p
lib, whence S. w cor. of Section House. bears
n. 81 deg: 30 min. + 5i5 It. Thence n. II deg.
80 min f., var. 10 deg. 81 min. f., 25s9 feet to
cor. No. 9, a pine post, 5 fl. long, 8 inches square,
: II. in the ground, with mound of stone and
earth, seribed cor. No. 3--lll3. Thence n. SO
deg. % min. E., var. 10 deg 80 min. e., 1900 feet
10 cor No. 4, a pine post, : IT, long, 3 inches
square. . fl. III the ground, with mound ~ofstone,
scribed cor. No. lib. Thence S. 90 deg. 81
min. E.. var. Is deg. 30 min. E., 2i63 feet TO cor.
No. 8, a pine post, s II. long, 5 Inches square, Is
inches In the ground, with mound of stone,
scribed cor No. 5-lll3. Thence s. "a deg. 81
UNI T., war 10 utS' W Hllu. f., IZO lCet 10 COZ.
No. G, n pine post, 8 II. long, 3 inches square. 2
II in the ground, with mound of stone. scribed
cor, No. Glib, whence n pine 20 inches in
diameter bears \. 60 deg. 30 min. L. 1871 feet,
scribcd lllS u. T. Thence S. 4 deg. Is min, var.
Is deg. 30 min. E III feet, to cor, No. /, and
place of beginning.
Magnetic variation II deg 30 min. to 1G deg. %
min. e., containing 155. 3 acres,
The location of this mine is recorded in the
Register of Deeds Office of Custer County, South
Dakota, in book 8. page 81, of Placer Location
Records. The adjoining claimants are Ncwoda
Placer NJ. c, 1000, patented ground.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said Point of Rocks Placer, Lot l113,
mine or surface ground are required to file their
adverse claims with the Register of the United
States land office. at Rapid City, In the Cou ty
of Pennington South Dakota, duri, z the sixty
days period of publication hereof or they will
be AIRED by virtue of the provisions of the
Statute.
K. d. RALPH, Register.
II Is hereby ordered. that the foregoing Notice
of Application for Patent be published for the
period ofsixty days, (ten consecutive weesk), in
the CUSTER CHRONICLE, n weekly newspaper
published at Custer City, South Dakota.
+. ID. PALPH, Register.
First publication, December 10, 1895.