The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28


cisco Examiner, and it is the first time
that they have been issued in printed
form. They were adopted by the privy
council of the Dominion of Canada al
Ottawa in May, 1897, and are complete
to date:
INTERPRETATION.
Bar diggings'' shall mean any part OF
a river over which the water extends
when the water is in its flooded state. and
which is not covered at low water.
Mines on benches shall be known as
bench diggings, and shall for - purpose
of defining the size of such Claus be ex-
cepted from dry diggings.
rDlg diggings" snail mean any mine
over which river never extends.
Miner shall mean a male or female
over the age of Is, but not under that
age.
''Claims" shall mean the personal right
of property in a placer mine or diggings
during the time Tor which the grant OF
such mine or diggings is made.
Legal post shall mean a stake stand
ing not less than four feet above the
ground and squared on four sides for at
least one foot from the top. Both sides
SO squared shall measure at least four
inches across the face. 1t shall also mean
any stump or tree cut off and squared or
faced to the above Height and size.
CLOSE season" shall mean the period
OF the year during which placer mining
| is generally suspended The period to be
fixed by the gold commissioner in whose
district the claim is situated
Locality shall mean the territory
along a river tributary of the Yukon
Mineral shall include all minerals
whatsoever other than coal.
NATURE AND SIZE OF CLAIMS.
l. Bar Diggings: a strip of land 100 feet
wide at high water mark and thence ex-
tending along the river to its lowest
water level
?. The sides of a claim for bar digging
! shall be two parallel lines run as nearly
as possible at right angles to the stream,
! one at each end of the claim at or about
/ high water mark, also one at each end
OF the claim al or about the edge of the
water. One of the posts at high water
mark shall be legibly marked with the
name of the miner and the date upon
which the claim is staked.
3. Dry diggings shall be 100 feet square,
and shall have placed at each of its four
corners a legal post upon one of which
snail be leglbly marked the name of the
miner and the date upon which the claim
was staked.
l. Creek and river claims shall be 500
feet long, measured in the direction of the
general course OF the stream. and shall
extend in width from base to base of the
hill or bench on each side, but when the
hills or benches are less than 100 feet
apart the claim may be 100 feet in depth.
The sides of a claim shall be two par
aIlel lines run as nearly as possible ar
rignt angles TO the stream. The sides
shall be marked with legal posts at or
about the edge of the water and at the
rear boundaries of the claim. one of TIE
legal posts at the stream shall be legibly
marked with the name of the miner
and the date upon which the claim was
staked.
5. Bench claims shall be 100 feet square
8. In defining the size of claims they
shall be measured horizontally, ire
spective of inequalities on the surface of
the ground.
I. If any person or persons shall dis
cover new mine, and such discovery
shall be established to the satisfaction OF
the gold commissioner, a claim for the
bag diggings $50 feet in length may be
granted. A new stratum OF auriferous
earth or gravel, situated in a locanty
where the claims are abandoned, shall for
this purpose be deemed a new mine, al
though the same locality shall have
previously been worked at a different
level.
s. The forms of application for grant
for PLACER, mining and the grant or the
H and r. IN the schedule hereto.
8: A claim shall be recorded with the
gold commissioner in whose district it is
situated. within three days after the loca- !
ton thereof if it is located within ten
miles of the commissioners office One /
extra day shall be allowed for making
such record for every additional ten
miles and fraction thereof.
10. In the event of the absence of the |
gold commissioner from his office. entry |
for claim may be granted by any per- /
duses in his absence
II. Entry shall not be granted for a /
claim which has not been staked by the |
applicant in person in the manner spec |
itied in these regulations. An affidavit I
that the claim was staked out by the APP
plicant shall be embodied in form H
of the schedule hereto.
Il. An entry fee of SIS shall be charged
the first year and an annual fee of 500
for each of the following years. This
provision shall apply to the locations for
which entries have already been granted.
Is. After the recording of a claim, re-
moval of any post by the holder thereof
or any person acting in his behalf, for
the purpose of changing the boundaries
of his claim. shall act as a forfeiture of
the claim.
H. The entry of every holder for
grant for placer mining must be renewed
and his receipt relinquished and replaced
every year, the entry fee being paid each
year.
Is. No miner shall receive a grant for
more than one mining claim in the same
locality; but the same miner may hold
any number of claims by purchase, and
any number of miners may unite to work
their claims in common upon such terms
as they may arrange, provided such
agreement be registered with the gold
and a fee of s. paid for
each regiStra ton.
16. Any miner or miners may sell,
mortgage or dispose of his or their
-ered with and a fee of 81 paid to the
gold commissioner, who shall thereupon
give the assignee a certificate in form ~ .
II the schedule hereto.
II. Every miner shall during the con-
inuation of his grant have the exclu-
'lVe right of entry upon his own claim
or the miner-like working thereof, and
he construction of a residence thereon
md shall be entitled exclusively to all
he proceeds realized therefrom; but he
hall have no surface rights therein. and 7
he gold commissioner may grant to the
holders o. adjacent claims such rights
II entry thereon as may be absolutely
necessary for the working of their claims |
lpon such terms as may TO him seem rea-
enable. He may also grant permits to
miners to cut timber thereon for their
wn use, upon payment of the dues pre-
Cribed by the regulations in that behalf
Is. Every miner shall be entitled to
he use of so much of the water natur-
lE flowing through or past his claim. :
nd not already lawfully appropriated :
S shall in the opinion of the gold COM
1g thereof, and shall be entitled to drain l
is own claim free of charge.
10. A claim shall be deemed to be aban- ,
oned and open to the occupation and en- I
ave remained unworked on working
ay by the grantee thereof or by some i
erson on his behalf for the space of 70 [
ours, unless sickness or other reasonable 9
ause may be shown to the satisfaction
the gold commissioner. or unless the
rantee is absent on leave given by the
ami the gold commissioner
pom obtaining evidence satisfactory 10
imself that this provision is not being
omplied with may cancel the entry given
Or a claim.
90 If the land upon which a claim has
cen located IS not the property of the b
rown it will be necessary for the person p
no applies for entry to furnish proof 7
lie land the surface right before entry n
an be granted. ii