The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-02-12
WYQAUB MINING Law.


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| SECTION /. That section 500 Of Ia
revised statutes of Idaho be amended t,
read q follows;
! Section 800. Mining claims hereafte
located upon veins Or lodes of quarts, o
other rock in place bearing any of th'
metals or other valuable deposits men
toned in section 1890 Of the revised stat
utes of the United States, may extend t.
800 feet on each side of the middle of thu
vein or lode: Propided, That when thu
iocstors have set stakes, posts or monu.
ments described in section 2 hereof, t.
indicate the line Of the vein, ledge OF
lode, such stakes, posts or monuments
must be taken for the purposes of such
location, to mark correctly the line there
Of, and such line must not afterwards be
changed 50 as to affect rights acquired OF
interfere with any locations made subse-
quent thereto.
SIC. q. Section 31O1 of the revised
statutes of Idaho be amended to read as
follows:
Section 3101. The locator, At the time
of making the discovery of such vein or
lode, must erect monument at such
place Of discovery, upon which he must
place his name, the name of the claim,
the date of discovery and distance claimed
along the vein each way from such mon
ument. Within three days from the date
of discovery, he must mark the boundaries
of bis claim by establishing at each cor
ner thereof, and at any angle in the side
lines, monument marked with the name
of the CLAIM aud the corner or angle it
represents; also at the time of SO marking
his boundaries, he must post at his dis
covery monument his notice of location
in which must be stated; First, the name
of the locator; second, the name of the
claim; third, the date of discovery; fourth,
the direction and distance claimed along
the ledge from the discovery; fifth, the
distance claimed on each side of the mid
die Of the ledge; sixth, the distance and
direction from the discovery monument
to such natural object or permanent mon
ument. if any such there be, as will hx
and Hnocriho in <hn
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 ut the true corner
Or angle, it may be placed as near thereto
cate the place of such corner or angle. |
may be made of any such |
material or form as will readily give no
tlce, and when of posts or trees, they mus, |
be hewn and marked upon the side facing
towards the discovery, and must be a,
least four inches square or in diameter.
Monuments must be ut least four feet
high above the ground, and trees must
De 80 hewn as to readily attract attention.
At the time the locator so .marks the
boundaries of his Claim, he may do so in
my direction that will not interfere with
lights or claims which existed prior to
lis discovery.
SEC. 8. Within sixty days after such
ocation, the locator or his assigns, must
ink a shaft upon the lode to the depth OF
It least 10 feet from the lowest part OF
he rim of such shaft at the surface, ana
# not less than l6 square feet area. ANY
which shall cut such vein IL
eet from the lowest part of the rim OF
UGH shaft and which shall measure 100
ubic feet in extent shall be considered
ompliance with this provision. Any To-
ated claim upon which work has been
one in compliance with the above re-
10 not, unless abandoned, sub
sct to relocation for period Of 80 days
rom and after the date of location.
SEC. 4. Within 90 days after the loca-
on Of the claim the locator or his assigns
lust file for record in the Office of the
ounty recorder Of the county or of the ,
equity recorder of the mining district in :
hlch the claim is situated substantial :
'py of bis notice of location.
Sec. 5. If at any time the locator of y
~ mining Claim heretofore or hereafter {
'cated, Of his assigns, shall apprehend c
'at his original certificate was detective, '
roneous, or that the requirements of che u
W had not been complied with before /.
ing, or shall be DESTROYS of changing z
70 surface Boundaries, or of taking any u
'rt of an overlapping claim which has n
zen abandoned, or in case the original a
rtificate was made prior to the passage a
this law, and he shall be DESTROYS OF b
curing the benefits of this Act, such To- n
tor or bis assigns may tile an additional = =
rtiicate subject to the conditions Of this :,
It and to contain all that this Act re. u
tired an original certificate to contain. Il
rorided, That such amended location
'es not interfere with the existing rights
others At the time when such amend.
ent Is made.
SEC. s. Within 90 days after any time "
or period allowed for the nerformanca ~