The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-03-13

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 THANH 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. 8. 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 3lO3 of the re.
vised statutes of Idaho is hereby
amended to read as follows:
| Section 3l03. 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 q deputy. Upon failure of any
recorder to appoint deputy for ten days
after the petition in writing has been
presented 10 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: PROVIDED, That whenever at
any time afterwards, the recorder has ap
pointed 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. II. Placer Claims, as mentioned
IN section 1929 OF the revised statutes OF
the United States, may lie 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 30
days from the time of the location thereof,
| In the district In winch the same is sit
uated, or in the Office Of the county re-
| cOrder OF the county wherein the claim is
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 and must also give such
description OF the locality thereof by
| reference 10 natural landmarks or hxeu
| objects and contiguous claims, il any, rs
| TO render the situation Of the same reas
onably certain from the letter OF the no.
| tice itself.
SEC. IL. That section 3104 of the re-
vised statutes of Idaho be aneuued to
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 locatOrs named III the same
must make and subscribe al affidavit, in
writin. on or attached to the notice, sub.
stsntia!ly in the following form, to- wit
State OF Idaho, county of........ss.
/, ......, do soiemniy swear that am
q citizen OF the United States of America
Tor have declared my intentions to he.
come sach) and that am acquainted
with the mining gIound described in this
notice Of location, and herewith 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 aud belief been located
according to the laws of the United States
| and Of this state, or if 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 sand laws, and lin
| case Ut quartz claims) that have opened
new ground 10 the extent or depth Of ter
ieet as required by the laws Of Idaho.
Signature, -. .:....
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
-. day OF ...... A. ID. l89..
Signature, -. ......
SEC. IA. That section BIOS of the re.
vised statutes Of Idaho Is ameaded 50 as
IN reaH faiinws n Wit.