The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-05-01


authorized to administer oaths shall be
so cents.
Such affidavit, or 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. Z. The location OF abandoned
claims shall be done in the same manner
as if the location were of a 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,
and if it purport to claim more than one
location it is absolutely void.
SEC. 9. That section 3103 of the re-
vised statutes of Idaho is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section 31O3. For the convenience of
prospcctors 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 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 rs thelrecorder
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: Pr0y1ded, That whenever at
any time afterwards, the recorder has ap-
pointed deputy for such district or
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 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 tue
writ of injunction shall Tx the amount
and nature of the security.
SEC. IL. Placer claims, as mentioned
III section 1929 Of the revised statutes OF
the United States, may he located for the
purpose of mining deposits and precious
stones after the discovery of such de-
posits.
Sec. 10. 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 aud Of this Act. Every
placer claim must be recorded within 30
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 aid must also give such
description of the locality thereof by
reference to natural landmarks ur fxcu
objects and contiguous claims, it any, as
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 31O4. At or before the tine of
presenting a 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
stantiaIly in the following form, to-wit
State OF Idaho, county of........ss.
/, ......, do solemnly swear that am
a citizen of the United States OF America
Cor have declared my intentions to be.
come sach) and that l am acquainted
with the mining ground described in this
notice of location, aud herewith called the
........ ledge, lode or claim; that the
ground and claim therein described or
any part thereof has not to the best of
my knowledge and belief been located
according to the laws of the United States
and Of this state, or if so located, that the
same has been abandoned or forfeited by
reason Of the failure of such former To-
Gators to comply in respect thereto with
the requirements of SAID laws, and lin
case OF quartz claims) that have opened
new ground 10 the extent or depth Of ten
ieet as required by the laws Ut Idaho.
Signature, 80. ......
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
-. day of ...... A. ID. 49,.
Signature, -. ....
SEC. IA. That section 3lO5 of the re-
vised statutes of Idaho Is amended so as