The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-01-30
WYMAN'S MINING LAW.
Information for Those Who Delve for
the Earth's Hidden Treasure.

|, Information for Those Who Delve TO
i the Earth's Hidden Treasure.
J SECTION /. That section 800 Of til
revised statutes of Idaho be amended t
read as follows:
Section 300. Mining claims hereafte
located upon veins or lodes of quartz, o
other rock in place bearing any of tn
metals or other valuable deposits men
toned in section 1890 Of the revised stat
utes of the United states, may extend t.
800 feet on each side Of the middle of thu
vein or lode: Provided, That when the
locators have set stakes, posts or monu'
ments described in section hereof, Il
} indicate the line of the vein, ledge OF
lode, such stakes, posts or monument.
must be taken for the purposes of such
location, to mark correctly the line there
of, and such line must not afterwards be
changed 80 as to affect rights acquired Oh
interfere with any locations made subse.
quent thereto. ~ .s $50
Sec 2. Section .slO1 of the revised
statutes OF Idaho he amended to read as
follows:
! Section 3101. The locator, at the time
of making the discovery of such vein OF
lode, must erect a monument at such
place of discovery, upon which he must
place his name, the name of the claim,
the date Of discovery and distance claimed
along the vein each way from such mon
ument. Within three days from the date
of discovery. he must mark the boundaries
of bis claim by establishing at each cor
ner thereof, aud at any angle 10 the aide
lines, monument marked with the name
Of the claim and the corner or angie it
represents; also at the time of SO marking
his boundaries, he must post at his dis
covery monument his notice of location
in which must be stated: First, the name
of the locator; second, the name of the
claim; third, the date of discovery fourth,
the direction and distance claimed along
the ledge from the discovery; fifth, the
distance claimed on each side of the mid
die of the ledge; sixth, tile distance and
direction from the discovery monument
to such natural object or permanent mon
ument. if any such there be, as will fix
and III ~ l<a in ha lno
ton of the claim; and seventh, the name
of the mining district, county and state.
When, from any cause, monument can
not be safely planted at the true corner
or angle, it may be placed as near thereto
as practicable, and 30 marked as to indi-
cate the place of such corner or angle
Monuments may be made of any such
material or form as will readily give no.
tice, and when of posts OF trees, they must
be hewn and marked upon the side facing
towards the discovery, and must be at
least four inches square or in diameter.
Monuments must be at least four feet
high above the ground, and trees must
be 81. hewn as to readily attract attention.
At the time the locator 90 marks the
boundaries of his claim, he may do so in
any direction that will not interfere with
rights or claims which existed prior to
his discovery.
SEC. 3. Within sixty days after such
location, the locator or his assigns, must
sink shaft upon the lode to the depth of
at leas, III feet from the lowest part of
the rim Of such shaft at the surface, and
of not less than lG square feet area. Any
excavation which shall cut such vein 10
feet from the lowest part OF the rim of
such shaft and which shall measure 100
cubic feet in extent shall be considered
compliance with this provision. Any To-
Gated claim upon which work has been
done in compliance with the above re-
quirements is not. unless abandoned, sub
ject to relocation for period of 30 DAYS
from and after the date of location.
SEC. 4. Within 30 days after the loca-
ton Of the claim the locator or his assigns
must file for record in the Office Of the
county recorder of the county or of the
deputy recorder of the mining district in
which the claim is situated substantial
copy of his notice OF location.
SEC. 5. Ii at any time the locator of
any mining claim heretofore or hereafter
located, or his assigns, shall apprehend
that his original certificate was defective,
erroneous, or that tile requirements of the
law had not been complied with before
filing, or shall be DESTROYS of changing
the surface boundaries, or of taking any
part OF an overlapping claim which has
been abandoned, or in case the original
certificate was made prior to the passage
of this law, aud he shall be DESTROYS of
securing the benefits of this Act, such To-
Gator or his assigns may file an additional
certificate subject to the conditions Of this
Act aud to contain all that this Act re-
quired an original certificate to contain
Procided, That such amended location
does not interfere with the existing rights |
of others at the time when such amend |
ment Is made.
Sec. &. Within 90 days after any time
set or period allowed for the performance
of labor, or making improvements upon |
any lode or placer claim, the person in !
whose behalf such work or improvement I
is performed, or some person for him
must make and record an affidavit in
substance as follows:
State Of Idaho, county off,. IS.
Before me, the subscribed personally,
appeared ........, who being first duly |