The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-04-09

OlreCt1OQ from the OlSCOv0Ay sAs~Aa >A~@~>-.
to such natural object or permanent mon
nment. if any such there be, - VIII ox
and describe in the notice itself the Aoca-
ton of the claim; and seventh, the name
of the mining district, county and state.
When. from any cause, monument can
not be safely planted at the true corner
or angle, it may be placed ~ near thereto
As practicable, and 20 marked - to indi-
cate the place of such corner or angle.
Monuments may be made of any such
material or form as will readily give no
tlce, and when Of posts or trees, they must
be hewn and marked upon the side facing
towards the discovery, and must be at
least four inches square or in diameter.
Monuments must be 1t least four feet
high above the ground, and trees mus,
be so hewn as to readily attract attention.
At the time the locator 80 marks the
boundaries of his claim, be may do SO in
any direction that will not interfere with
rights or claims which existed prior to
Ills discovery.
SEC. 8. Within sixty days after such
location, the locator or his assigns, must
sink shaft upon the lode to the depth OF
Ut least 10 feet from the lowest part Of
the rim Of such shaft at the surface, ana
Of not less than l6 square feet area. Amy
excavation which shall cut such vein ~
feet from the lowest part of the rim OF
such shaft and which shall measure 100
cubic feet in extent shall be considered n
compliance with this provision. Any To-
Gated claim upon which work has been
done in compliance with the above re-
quirements is not, unless abandoned, sub
Ject to relocation for period OF 30 days
from and after the date of location.
SEC. 4. Within 80 days after the loca
ton Of the claim the locator or his assigns
must file for record in the Office OF the
county recorder of the county or of the
deputy recorder of the mining district in
which the claim is situated = substantial
copy of his notice Of location.
SECS. If at any time the locator OF
any mining claim heretofore or hereafter
located, or his assigns, shall apprehend
that his original certificate was detective,
erroneous, or that the requirements of the
law had not been complied with before
fling, or shall be DESTROYS of changing
the surface boundaries, or of taking any
part Of an overlapping claim which has
been abandoned, or in case the original
certificate was made prior to the passage
Of this law, aud he shall be DESTROYS OF
securing the benefits of this Act, such To-
Gator or bis assigns may file an additional
certificate subject to the conditions of this
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. s. Within 60 days after any time
set or period allowed tor the performance
of labor, or making improvements upon
any lode or placer claim, the person in
whose behalf such work or improvement,
is performed, or some person for him
must make and record an affidavit in
substance as follows:
State Of Idaho, county of. $3.50. SIS.
Before me, the subscribed personally,
appeared $500, who being first duly
sworn, says that at least $3.50. dollars
worth OF work or Improvements were per-
formed or made upon 49,. claim, situate
in. mining district, county Of 49,. :,
state OF Idaho; that such expenditure was
made by, for, or at the expense of $3.50.
owners of said claim, for the purpose Of
holding said claim.
Signature, -. $3.50.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this. day Of. 80, 1879.
The fee for administering the oath and
recording the foregoing affidavit, when
taken before the county recorder or dep.
uty mining recorder, shall be so cents
the fee for recording the the same when
oath is taken before any other Officer
authorized to administer oaths shall b.
so cents.
Such affidavit, or 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 a 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 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 locs-
ton il made BY one or several locstors,
and if itpurport to clxim more than one