The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-05
WYMATs MINING Law.

WYMATS MINING Law.
Information for Those Who Delve fol
the Earth's Hidden Treasure.
SECTION 1. That section 800 Of th,
revised statutes of Idaho be amended t.
read as follows:
Section 300. Mining claims hereafter
located upon veins or lodes of quartz, Of
other rock in place bearing any of the
metals or other valuable deposits men
toned in section 1890 of the revised stat
utes of the United States, may extend t.
300 feet on each side of the middle of the
vein or lode: Provided, That when the
locators have set stakes, posts or monu.
ments described in section 2 hereof, tc
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 SO as to affect rights acquired OF
interfere with any locations made subse.
quent thereto.
Sec. 2. Section 3101 of the revised
statutes of Idaho be amended to read az
follows:
Section 3101. The locator, at the time
of making the discovery of such vein or
lode, must erect 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 in the side
lines, monument marked with the name
of the claim and the corner or angle it
represents; also at the time of so marking
bis boundaries, he must post at his dis
covery monument bis 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, the distance and
direction from the discovery monument
to such natural object or permanent mon
ument, if any such there be, as will fix
and describe in the notice itself the loca-
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 so marked as to indi-
cate the place of such corner or angle.
Monuments may be made of any such
or form as will readily give nos
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 SO hewn as to readily attract attention.
At the time the locator 30 marks the
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
It least 10 feet from the lowest part of
he rim of such shaft at the surface, and
If not less than Is square feet area. Any
which shall cut such vein 10
eet from the lowest part of the rim of
'uch shaft and which shall measure 100
cubic feet in extent shall be considered a
with this provision. Any To-
lated claim upon which work has been
lone in compliance with the above re-
luirements is not, unless abandoned, sub
ect to relocation for period of 80 days
rom and after the date of location.
SEC. 4. Within 80 days after the loca-
ion 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 q substantial
,opy of his notice of location.
SEC. s. If at any time the locator of
my mining claim heretofore or hereafter
coated, or bis assigns, shall apprehend
hat his original certificate was defective,
erroneous, or that the requirements of the
aw had not been complied with before
ling, or shall be DESTROYS of changing
he surface boundaries, or of taking any
'art Of an overlapping claim which has
,een abandoned, or in case the original
certificate was made prior to the passage
# this law, aud he shall be DESTROYS of
occurring the benefits of this Act, such To-
ator or bis assigns may fle An additional
certificate subject to the conditions Of this
Act and to contain all that this Act re-
uired an original certificate to contain.
0rorided, That such amended location
Ices not interfere with the existing rights