The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-03-06

authorized to administer Oaths Shall be
so cents.
Such affidavit, or certified copy thereof
in case the original is lost, shall be prima
tacie 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 q 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. Q. That section 3103 of the re.
yised 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 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 a 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 as hereinafter
required: Procaded, That whenever at
any time afterwards, the recorder has ap-
pointed 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 OF 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 amour,
and nature of the security.
SEC. II. Placer claims, as mentioned
In section 1929 OF the revised statutes oi
the United States, may be located for the
purpose OF mining deposits and precious
stones after the discovery OF such de-
posits.
SEC. IL. The locator of any placer
mining claim, located for the purpose
of mining placer deposits or preciou:
stones, must at the time of making tlIs
location comply with all the requirement.
of sections and OF this Act. Every
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 il
situated. The location notice thereo
must contain the date of the location, TIA
name of the locator, the name and dimen
sious of the claim and must also give sucl
description Of the locality thereof b.
reference to natural landmarks or IKE
objects and contiguous claims, il any, a
10 render the situation of the same reas
onably certain from the letter Of the no
tice itself.
! SEC ID. That section 3104 Of the re
vised statutes of Idaho be amended t
read as follows:
> Section 31O4. At or before the time G
presenting location notice for RECORD
whether it he for aquartz or placer claim
8 one OF the locators named i'll the sam
g must make and subscribe an affidavit, i
= writin. on or attached to the notice, sui
, stantially in the following form, to vii
! State of Idaho, county Of. IS.
/, ..., do solemniy swear that Al
f a citizen of the United States of Americ
r Tor have declared my intentions to 81
] come such) and that l am acquainte
}. with the mining ground described in TIN
q notice Of location, and herewith called th
@ ........ ledge, lode or claim; that tn
a ground and claim therein described I
: any part thereof has not to the best
9 my knowledge and belief been locate
!, according to the laws Of the United State
. and of this state, or if so located, that th
6 same has been abandoned or forfeited b
reason of the failure of such former IL
4 Gators to comply in respect thereto wit
the requirements of said laws, and Il
. case OF quartz claims) that bave opene
J. new ground to the extent or depth OF t.
!. ieet as required by the laws OF Idaho.
a Signature, -. ......
Subscribed and sworn to before me th
. day of $3.50. A. u. lo9...
Signature, ......
SEC. IA. That section BIOS of the r.
e vised statutes IF Idaho is amended so I
. to read as follows, to wit:
: Section 3105. The location notice here