The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-04-03

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authorized to administer oaths shall b
so cents.
Such affidavit, or certified copy thereo
in case the original is lost, shall be prim
facie evidence of the performance of sue
labor. The. failure to file such affidavit
shall be considered prima facie evidenc
that such labor has not been done.
SEC. Z. The location Of abandone,
claims shall be done in the same name
as if the location were of new claim
but the locator may, instead of sinking
new discovery shaft, sink the origlna
discovery shaft ten feet deeper than it wa
at the time of his location, or he may driv
the open cut or tunnel ten feet turtle
along the course of the lead, lode or vein
and must erect new posts or monuments
SEC. 8. No location notice shall clam
more than one location, whether the loca
ton is made by one or several locators
and if it purport to claim more than on
location it is absolutely void.
SEC. 9. That section 31O3 of the re
vised statutes of Idaho is hereb,
amended to read as follows:
Section 31O3. For the convenience O
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 deputy. Upon failure of any
recorder to appoint a deputy for ten days
after the petition in writing has been
presented to 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: Proosded, That whenever at
any time afterwards, the recorder has ap-
pointed a 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 fix the amount
and nature of the security.
SEC. II. Placer claims, as mentioned
in section 1899 Of the revised statutes of
the United States, may be located for the
purpose of mining deposits and precious
stones after the discovery Of such de-
posts.
SEC. 12. 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 3 OF this Act. Every
placer claim must be recorded within 80
days from the time of the location thereof,
In the district in which 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 to natural landmarks or fixed
objects and contiguous claims, it any, MS
to render the situation of the same reas-
Onably certain from the letter of the no.
tice itself.
SEC. ID. That section 31O4 of the re-
vised statutes of Idaho be amended to
read as follows:
Section 3104. At or before the tine of
location notice for record,
whether it be for quartz or placer claim,
one of the locators named in the same
must make and subscribe an affidavit, in
writing on or attached to the notice, sub.
stantially in the following form, to-wit:
State OF Idaho, county of........ SIS.
I, ......, do solemnly swear that am
! citizen of the United States of America
,or have declared my intentions to be.
come such and that l am acquainted
With the mining ground described in this
lotlce Of location, and herewith called the
,....... ledge, lode or claim; that the
ground and claim therein described or
ny part thereof has not to the best of
ny knowledge and belief been located
according to the laws of the United States
nd of this state, or if so located, that the
anne has been abandoned or forfeited by
eason Of the failure of such former To-
ators to comply In respect thereto with
he requirements Of said laws, and lin
ase OF quartz claims) that have opened
ew ground to the extent or depth Of tep
set rs required by the laws Of Idaho.
Signature, -. ...
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
-. day of ...... A. ID. 1884,.
Signature, 80. $3.50.
SEC. IA. That section 3lO5 of the re-
ised statutes of Idaho Is amended so As
, reed as follows, o-wit:
SpctiOn 21C5 The lOcati0n notico hare