The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-03-12
YUKON CALCULATIONS.

YUKON REGULATIONS.
After careful consideration and
with the advice of William 0gilvie,
the great Canadian authority on the
Yukon country, the department Of
the interior at Ottawa has decided
upon the legal conditions which are
to govern placer mining in tho
Yukon. The regulations, in SUBJ
stance, are as follows:
"sFree miner shall mean q male or
female over the age of IL, but not under
that age. or stock company named in and
lawfully possessed of valid existing free
miners certificate, andano other. =,
"a free miners certificate shall not be
transferable This certificate may be
granted for one year, to run from the date
thereof or expiration of the applicants
then existing certificate, upon the pay
ment thereof Of the sum of $40, unless the
certificate is to be issued in favor of .
joint stock company, in which case the
fee will be $50; for q company having .
nominal capital exceeding 800, 900, the
fee shall be 500.
"Only one person or joint stock COM
pany. shall be named in certificate.
This certificate shall also grant the holder
the privilege of fishing or shooting, sub
ject to provisions of cutting timber for
the actual necessities, for building houses,
boats and for general mining operations;
for the exclusive use of the miner himself,
but such permission shall not extend to
timber which may have been granted to
other persons or corporations.
"Certificates may be obtained by appli-
cants in person at the department OF the
interior, Ottawa, or from the agents of
Dominion lands at Winnipeg, Manitoba;
Calgary, Edmonton, Prince Albert, in the
Northwest territory; Kamloops and New
Westminster, B. c.; at Dawson, in the Yu-
kon district, also from agents Of the gov
eminent at Vancouver and Victoria, B. q.
mo person Or joint stock company will
be recognized as having any right or In
terest in or to any claim unless be VI. 1t
or every person in his or its employment
shall have free miners certificate unex-
PRED. And, on the expiration OF tree
miners certificate the owner thereof shall
absolutely forfeit all his rights and inter.
ests, unless he shall, on or before the day
following the expiration of such certlti-
cate obtain a new free miners certificate.
"Nevertheless, should any co-owner
fail to keep up his free miners certificate,
such failure shall not cause a forfeiture or
act as abandonment of the claim; but the
interest of such co-Owners, pro rata, &C
cording to their former interests; provld-
ed, nevertheless, that shareholder In
joint stock company need not be tree
miner. Every free miner, during the con-
tinuance of his certificate, shall have the
right to enter, prospect or mine Tor gold
and the minerals upon any lands IN the
Yukon district, whether vested IN the
Crown or otherwise, except upon govern
ment reservations and land lawfully &C.
cupied.
IA creek, gulch, river or hill claim shall
not exceed $50 feet in length in the gen
eral direction Of the stream or ravlne on
which it fronts, and shall have not more
than 1000 feet in width. Every alternate
ten claims shall be reserved for the gov
ernment of Canada.
'sThat is to say, when claim is located,
the discovery claim and pine additional
Claims adjoinin. each other and num-
bered consecutively will be open for reg
istratlon. Then the next ten claims of
$50 feet each will be reserved for the
government and so on. The penalty for
trespassing upon claim reserved tor the
crown shall be immediate cancellation of
any entry or entries which the persons
trespassing may have obtained, whether
by original entry or purchase of mining
claim, and the refusal of the acceptance
of any application which the persons
trespassing may at any time make for q
claim.
IF any free miner or party of free
miners discover q new mine and such dis
cOvery shall he established to the satisfac-
ton of the mining recorder, creek. river
or hill claims of the following size shall
be allowed:
10 one discoverer of claim, 500 feet
in length; to party or two discoveries
two claims amounting altogether to 1000
feet in length; to each member of party
beyond two in number, claim of the
ordinary size only.
"a claim shall be recorded with the
mining recorder in whose district it il
situated within ten days after the location
thereof.
"Entry shall net be granted for claim
which has not been staked by the appli
cants in person, in the manner specified
in these regulations. An entry fee of SIS
shall be charged the first year, and an
annual fee of SIS for each Of the follow
ing years. A royalty of 10 per cent on
the gold mined shall be levied and col
lected on the gross output of each claim
The sum CT So, 500 shall be deducted from
the gross annual output of claim when
the amount upon which royalty
is to be calculated, but this exemption
shall not be allowed unless the royalty is
paid at banking Office or to the gold
or mining recorder"
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