The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-24

the fee for recording the same when til
oath is taken before any other Office
authorized to administer oaths shall b
so cents.
Such affidavit, or certified copy therec
in case the original is lost, shall be prim
facie evidence of the performance of sue
labor. The failure to file such affidavi
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 orielna
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 furthe
along the course of the lead, lode or vein
and must erect new posts or monuments
| SIC. 8. No location notice shall CLAM
more than one location, whether the loca
ton il made by one or several locators
and If it purport to claim more than on,
location it il absolutely soid.
SEC. Q. That section 810S of the re
vised statutes Of Idaho il hereb,
amended to read a. follows:
Section S103. For the convenience o,
prospectors and locators, the county re
cerders of the several counties must an
point deputy at any place where he may
deem 1t necessary, and at all places more
than 30 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 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 IS if made by the deputy, and must
be entered by the recorder as hereinafter
required: Proo,ded, That whenever at
any time afterwards, the recorder has ap-
pointed q 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
from the miners, and if it be re-
fused or not given, may epjoin such miners
from working such ground until such
is given. The court granting the
writ OF injunction shall tx tho amount
md nature of the security.
SEC. IL. Placer claims, As mentioned
q section 1929 Of the revised statutes of
he United States, may he located for the
purpose of mining deposits and precious
tones after the discovery of such de-
,osits.
Sic. ~. The locator of any placer
mining claim, located for the purpose
# mining placer deposits or precious
tones, must at the time of making the |
ocation comply with all the requirements
t sections 2 and 8 Of this Act. Every
'lacer claim must be recorded within 30 |
avs from the time of the location thereof, |
q the district in which the same is Sit
ated, or in the office Of the county re-
order OF the county wherein the claim is
ltusted. The location notice thereof
rust contain the date of the location, the
anne OF the locator, the name aud dimen-
ons OF the claim AID must also give such
description OF the locality thereof by
;ference to natural landmarks or fixed
ljects and contiguous claims, if any, as
render the situation of the same reas-
1abiy certain from the letter of the no.
CO itself. E
SEC. IL. That section 31O4 of the re-
sed statutes of Idaho be amended to
lad a. follows:
Section SlO4. At or before the time of
location notice for record,
neither it be for quartz or placer claim,
10 OF the locators named in the same
ust make and subscribe an affidavit, in
ritin. on or attached to the notice, sub.
antially in the following form, to- wit:
ate OF Idaho, county of........ss.
/, ......, do solemnly swear that am
citizen Of the United States of America
: have declared my intentions to be.
me sucb) and that l am acquainted
ith the mining ground described in this
'tlce Of location, and herewith called the
800. ledge, lode or claim; that the
ound and claim therein described or
J part thereof has not to the best of
J knowledge. and belief been located +,
cording to the laws Of the United States
d OF this state, or it SO located, that the
me has been abandoned or forfeited by
asOn Of the failure Of such former To-
tors to comply in respect thereto with
requirements of SAID laws, and lin
'e OF quartz claims) that have opened
" 9rQpnd to the extent or depth Of ten I
t rs required by the laws Of Idaho.
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