The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-31

the surface boundaries, Or Of taking AM
part of an overlapping. claim which ha!
been abandoned, or in case the origina
certificate was made prior to the passage
of this law, and be shall be DESTROYS O.
securing the benefits of this Act, such To-
Gator or bis assigns may file an additional
certificate subject to the conditions of THU
Act and to contain all that this Act re
quired an original certificate to contain
PROVIDED, That such amended location
does not interfere with the existing rights
of others at the time when such amend
ment Is made.
SEC. 8. Within 60 days after any tim,
set or period allowed for the performance
of labor, or making improvements upo1
any lode or placer claim, the person il
whose behalf such work or improvement
is performed or some person for hin
| must make and record an affidavit il
substance as follows:
y
The fee for administering the oath anG
recording the foregoing affidavit, wher
taken before the county recorder or dep
uty mining recorder, shall be so cents
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 prims
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 new claim
but the locator may, instead of sinking q
new discovery shaft, sink the original
discovery shaft ten feet deeper than it was
at the time of his4ocation, 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. 8. That section 31O3 of the re-.
vised statutes of Idaho is hereby
amended to read as follows;
Section 310a. For the convenience OF
prospectors and locators, the county re
csrders of the several counties must APP
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 appoia deputy for ten days
after the petition ip 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 as if made by the deputy, and must
be entered by the recorder rs hereinafter
required: P10paded, That whenever at
any time afterwards, the recorder has APP
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 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 of
the United States, may be located for the
purpose OF mining deposits and precious
stones after the discovery Of such de.
posts.
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 and . Of this Act. Every
placer claim must be recorded within ~
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 and must also give such
description OF the locality thereof by
reference 10 natural landmarks or fixed
objects and contiguous claims, it any, rs
to render the situation OF the same reas-
onably certain from the letter Of the no.
tice itself.
Sec. Ii. That section 31O4 of the re-
vised statutes of Idaho be amended to
read as follows:
Section 3104. At or before the time of