The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-04-13
CHANGES IN THE MINING LAW.

SHANOLo I'm AhE PAtNaAfo 49,
The State mining law of 1897 was
amended by the last Legislature as fol-
lows:
Section l. Section two OF the above
named Act Is hereby amended SO as to
read as follows:
Section Two. Before the expiration
OF 20 days from the posting OF the no
tice of location, the locator shall sink a
discovery shaft upon the claim to
depth of at least 10 feet from the lowest
part of the rim of said shaft at the sur
face, or deeper if necessary, to show by
such work a lode or deposit of mineral
ia place. A cut. or cross cut, or tunnel, |
which cuts the lode at a depth of ten
feet or more, or an open cut OF at least
ten feet in length along the lode from
The point where the lode may be in any
manner discovered, shall be equivalent
To discovery shaft. AT the location
point, and at each corner and angle of
the claim, he shall distinctly mark a
tree or rock in place, or shall set stone,
which shall be at least six inches wide
and eighteen inches long, firmly in
mound or in the earth, So that at least
six inches in height of said stone shall
be plainly visible from all sides, or shall
substantially build IA monument which
shall rise at least three feet above the
surface, or shall erect post at least
four inches square or four inches IN
diameter, which must be firmly set in
the ground. or in a mound OF earth or
rock and must rise at least three feet
above the surface. The tree, rock, stone.
post or monument at each corner shall
be so marked by letters, figures or 9th
erwise, as to indicate its purpose. The
posting of location notice and descrip-
Tive memoranda OF corners iii that
method of marking be used) shall be by
conspicuously displaying the same.
where practicable, and in other cases
by such postings as Is in accord with
the usage and custom of miners. Where
| il is impracticable or dangerous to life
or limb to mark u tree or rock, or set IA
stone, or erect post or monument pre-
eisely upon a corner or angle, then the
marking of that corner or angle by
means of tree, or rock, or stone, or
post, or monument, may be done at
The nearest practicable point, in such
manner as to indicate the right place.
SEC. 2. Section thirteen of said Act
is hereby amended so as to read as fol
lows: Section Thirteen. The location
of placer claim shall be made in the
following manner: BY posting thereon,
upon a tree, rock in place, stone, post
or monument, IA notice of locator or To-
Gators, date of location, and number of
feet or acres claimed, and by marking
the boundaries and the location point
| in the same manner and by the same
means as required by the laws of this
State for marking the boundaries vi
lode claim locations; provided, that
where the United States survey has
been extended over the land embraced
in the location, the claim may be taken
/ by legal subdivisions, and, except the
marking of the location point as here
| inbefore prescribed, no other markings
than those Of said survey shall be requir
ed.
SEC. 3. Section fourteen of said Act
! Is hereby amended SO as to read as fol-
| flows: Section fourteen. Within ninety
days after the posting of the notice OF
location of a placer claim, the locator
shall perform not less than twenty del
lars worth of labor upon the claim for
the development thereof, and shall have
recorded by the Mining District Re-
eorder and County Recorder of the dis
trict and county in which the claim Is
situated a certificate which shall state
the name of the claim, designating it as
Il placer claim. name of locator or loca-
tors, date OF location. number of feet or
acres claimsd,a description of the claim
with regard TO some natural object or
permanent monument, so as To identify
the claim, and the kind and amount of
work done by him as herein required
and the place on the claim where said
work was done. This certificate, or the
record thereof, or duly certified copy
of said record, shall be prima face evil
dence OF the recitals therein. But il
such certificate do not state all the facts
herein required to be stated, it shall be
void.
SEC. 4. Two new sections are hereby
added to said Act which shall be known
as section twenty -four and section TWEEN
ty-five, and section twenty -four of said
Act shall be known us and numbered
section twenty.six.
Section twenty-four. Certificates OF
location and of abor and improvements
necessary to hold claims need not be
sworn to, and are not required to be in
any specified form, nor to state facts in
any specific order; but must truly state
the required facts.
Section twenty-five. Where there Is
no mining district, or where a district
having once existed the residence of the
officers within the district and their
places of business within the district
where the books a'e kept ara not pub
licly known, district recording shall not
be required OF the locator or claim own
er. But recording shall be required In
the office of the County Recorder in all
cases; as we'll where there is district
recorder as where there is none.