Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-20
A, I. FEAN, ATTORNEY.
NJ. A. No. 935.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
U. s. LAND OFFICE, Rapid city, :. D., ,

u. S. A OFFICE, Rapid City, (. D.,l
December II, 1896.
whose post Office address is Pringle, Custer
County, South Dakota, has this day filed her
application for a patent for l5j. S3 acres of the
Point OF Rocks Placer Mine. bearing gold and
other minerals, with surface ground i55 SO acres,
situated IN no organized mining district,
County of Custer, and state of South Dakota.
and designated by the field notes and official
plat on file in this Office as lot Number lib, in
Township 5, South of Range 4, East Of Black
Hills Meridian, said Lot No. lll3 being described
as follows, to-wit
Beginning at corner Number l., identical
with southeast corner of the location. a pine
post 5 feet long, 5 inches square. ? feet in the
ground. with mound of earth, scribed cor. l.
lll3, whence Y. S. Loo. Mon. No. 70 bears n. "A
deg II min. E.. 400 feet. Thence n. 20 deg. OF
min. W, var, Is deg, 81 min. f., 27O5 #. to cor.
No. Of VI. c. 1000, 1924 feet to cor. No; >, a pine
post 3 #. long 5 inches square. 2 fl. in the
ground, with mound %ofstone, scribed cor. No .
lll3, whence S. w cor, of Section House, bears
\. 81 deg: 30 min. f. 5l5 u. Thence n. II deg.
30 min E." var, 10 deg, 81 min, F., 95S9 feet to
cor. No, 3, n pine post, 3 It. long, 3 inches square,
, II. in the ground, with mound of stone and
earth, seribed cor. No. 3--lll3. Thence n. SO
deg. % min. E., var. Is deg 30 iniu, f., 1900 feet
to cor. No. 4, a pine post, 5 #. long, 3 inches
square, 2 It, IN the ground, with mound ofstoue,
scribed cor. No. Alb. Thence s. 90 deg. 81
min. f., var, Ii deg. 30 min, E., 2i63 feet to cor.
inches in the ground, with mound of stone,
scribed cor No. 5-1l13. Thence s. ~ deg. 2i
min. E., var, l6 deg, OF min, E., 100 feet to cor,
No. 6, a pine post, 5 #. long, 8 inches square, .
II In the ground, with mound of stone, scribed
cor. No. Glib, whence a pine 90 inches in
iamete bears n. 60 deg. 30 min. T., III feet,
scribed 1ll3 Is. T. Thence S. 4 deg. Is min, var.
IS deg. 80 min. L III feet, to cor. No. l, aud
place of beginning.
Magnetic variation IS deg 80 min. to l6 deg. OF
min. e., containing l55.S acres,
The location Of this mine is recorded in the
Register of Deeds office Of Custer County, South
Dakota, in book 8, page 81, of Placer Location
Records. The adjoining claimants are Newoda
Placer NJ. G.. 1000, patented ground.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said Point of Rocks Placer, Lot lll3,
mine or surface ground are required to file their
adverse claims with the Register OF the United
States land office, at Rapid City, in the Cou ty
of Pennington South Dakota, duri z the sixty
days period Of publication hereof or they will
be AIRED by virtue of the provisions Of the
Statute.
z. D.. RALPH, Register.
It Is hereby ordered, that the foregoing Notice
OF Application for Patent be published for the
period ofsixty days, tten consecutive weesk) in
the CUSTER CHRONICLE, a weekly newspaper
published at Custer City. South Dakota.
4. ID. PALPH. Register.
First publication, December 10. 1896.