The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-01-23

| the fee for recording the same when the
| oath is taken before any other officer
authorized to administer oaths shall be
| so cents.
Such affidavit, or a certified copy thereof
in case the original is lost, shall be prima
facie evidence of the performance of such
labor. The failure to file such affidavit
shall be considered prima facie evidence
| that such labor has not been done.
SEC. 7. The location OF abandoned
claims shall be done in the same manner
as if the location were of 4 new claim
but the locator may, instead of sinking a
new discovery shaft, sink the original
discovery shaft ten feet deeper than it was
at the time of his location, or he may drive
the open cut or tunnel ten feet further
along the course of the lead, lode or vein,
and must erect new posts or monuments
SEC. 8. No location notice shall claim
more than one location, whether the loca.
ton is made by one or several locators,
end if it purport to claim more than one
location it is absolutely void.
SEC. 9. That section 31O3 of the re.
vised statutes Of Idaho is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section 31O3. For the convenience OF
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 ut 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 rs
valid as if made by the deputy, and must
be entered by the recorder rs hereinafter
required: PrOU,ded, That whenever al
any time afterwards, the recorder has ap.
pointed deputy for such district OF
place, the authority of the person elected
10y the resident miners ceases.
SEC 10. When the right to mine is in
any case separate from the ownership OF
right OF occupancy of the surface ground
the owners or rightful occupants Of the
surface ground may demand satisfactory
security from the miners, and it it be re-
fused or not given, may eDjoin 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. IL. Placer claims, as mentioned
IN section 1929 Of the revised statutes O
the United States, may be located for th.
purpose OF mining deposits and preciOu!
stones after the discovery Of such de
posits.
SEC. 10. The locator of any place.
mining claim, located for the PURPOSE
of mining placer deposits or precious
stones, must at the time of making til,
location comply with all the requirement.
of sections and 3 Of this Act. Ever,
placer claim must be recorded within 81
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 i
situated. The location notice thereO
must contain the date of the location, tn
name of the locator, the name and dimen
sions of the claim ard must also give sucl
a description of the locality thereof b.
reference to natural landmarks or 6xe
objects and contiguous claims, it any, a
TO render tile situation of the same reas
onably certain from the letter Of the nc
tice itself.
SEC. ID. That section 3104 of the re
vised statutes of Idaho he amended I
read as follows:
Section 31O4. At or before the time {
presenting location notice for RECORD
whether it he for quartz or placer CLAIM
one of the locators named in the sam
must make and subscribe an affidavit, i
writin. on or attached to the notice, sui
stantia!ly i'll the following foim, to Wi
State Of Idaho, county d.. SIS.
/, ....., do sOicmnly swear that Al
u citizen of the United States Of Americ
Tor have declared my intentions to bt
come s1ch) and that / am acquainte
, with the mining ground described in thi
, notice of location, and herewith called tn
: ........ ledge, lode or claim; that til
, ground and claim therein described q
! any part thereof has not to the best G
) my knowledge and belief been locate
according to the laws Of the United State
!. and OF this state, or if SO located, that til
same has been abandoned or forfeited b
reason of the failure of such former 10
Gators to comply In respect thereto wit
the requirements of SAID laws, and Gil
case OF quartz claims) that have Opene,
new ground to the extent or depth of tel
ieet as required by the laws OF Idaho.
Signature, -. $500.
Subscribed and sworn 10 before me thi