Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-12-02
A. T. FEAY, ATTORNEY FOR CLAIMANT
NJ. A. NO. l170.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
U. 5. LAND OFFICE RAPID CITY, $. d.,

November 10Th, 1899
Notice is hereby given that Thomas Bellmore,
whose pOStoffice address Is Custer, Custer Coun-
ty, South Dakota, has this day filed his applica-
tlon for "a patent for 1898 acres OF the
Eldorado Placer Mining CLAIM bearing gold,
with surface ground, situated In no organized
mining district, County OF Custer and State OF
South Dakota, and designated by the field notes
and official plat on file in this office as Lot Num-
south of range 8, east of Black Hills Meridian
said lot No. 1897 being described as follows, to-
wit:
ner No II, NJ. ). 755 Eldorado Placer, a slate
rock 3ixl2x6 inches, set l6 inches in the ground
with mound of stone, chiseled X E--l2y,
whence corner TO sections "a, 30, and 3, town.
ships and south, range east, bears s. IS
deg. % min, w. 695 feet Thence n. 68 deg. 90 min
W. 1910 feet TO cor. No. 2; thence S.. az deg 3s
mn W. 1O36s0 feet to cor No. 3; thence II. AZ
u. s. Loc. Mon. No. 20 bears $. n deg SO min. W.
200 feet thence II. SO deg. 20 min. w. 9iS feet TO
cor. cor No. &; thence n. 81 deg, q min W 2O05 feet
TO cor. No. 7; thence II. 46 deg. 20 min. W. 1873
feet to cor. No. 81 thence n. 60 deg. 30 min. W.
SS feet to No. q thence en- @eg Il %
min. e. 1881 feet TO cor No. IL thence 5. 80 deg
OF min. e. $40 feet TO cor No. ~; thence S. II deg
q min e. 1863 feet TO- to cor No; Is; thence ,5 s. 81
81 deg. OF min. e. 123210 feet to cor. No. l5
thence n. % deg. "a min. g. l402 feet to cor. No.
I6 thence s. Is deg IL II min III e. 24SS feet TO toe cor r.
cor No 1S; thence S. % deg. 26 min. e. 405 feet
to cor. No 10; thence $. Ga deg. O2 min. W. 105Ss0
feet to cor. No. /, the place OF beginning, con-
tanning an area OF 1898 acres
Magnetic variation ii deg. 10 min. to Is deg.
10 min. east
Area in conflict with Placer Survey. No. 755,
EldOrado Placer, is 1873. $50 acres, all claimed.
Said Eldorado Placer Lot No. 1897, Is situated
I'm no organized mining district, In Custer Coun-
ty, South Dakota in the n. t. Il OF Section 80,
a. and =. w. Il OF Section 35, Township 3, South
OF Range East b. H. NJ, on Lightning Creek,
about miles westerly from Custer City, $: d.,
not bounded by any other Known mining claims.
The North Pole group of lode claims Is distant
about u mile northeaSterly from this claim.
The location of this mine Is recorded In the
Register of Deeds Office of Custer County, ). d.,
In Book Q, Placer, at page 461. The adjoining
claimants are unknown, nearest system OF lode
claims is North Pole group, abont u mile north
easterly.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said EldOrado Placer Mining Claim or
surface ground are required to file their adverse
Land Once at Rapid City, In the County OF Pen
nington, state of South Dakota, during the sixty
days period of publication hereof, or they will
be barred by virtue OF the provisions OF the
statute. -
IL Is hereby ordered, that the foregoing Notice
OF Application for Patent be published for the
period of GO days (ten consecutive weeks,) In the
CUSTER CHRONICLE, a weekly newspaper pub
lished at Custer City, South Dakota.
A. X. GARDNER. Register.
First publication, December 2, 1899.