Cañon City record., 1899-01-05
Mining informatIoa.


Mineral lands in the forest reserves
are subject to location and entry un-
der the general mining laws, in the
usual manner.
Lands containing petroleum or
other mineral oils, and chiefly valuable
therefor, may be entered and patent
Obtained therefor under the U. s.
mining laws pertaining to placer
claims.
The time is going by when man
with a prospect can hope to get a
big price for his undeyeloped prop
erty; the gamble is being eliminated
and it is getting down to legitimate
business the same as any other COM
mercial transaction.
A placer patent carries all lodes
not known to exist at the date of ap-
plication therefor; should, however,
a lode have been discovered within
the placer location limits before such
application it may be located, and the
placer location to that extent would
have to yield to it.
Under the constitution of the State
Of Colorado, any mineral-producing
claim to the annual value of $1,000 is
assessed on the basis of one-fifth the
gross proceeds of the preceding year.
Productive unpatented claims are also
assessed. II is a partial Colorado
custom to assess unproductiye, un-
patented claims at $500 each. In
California such claims are by custom
assessed at 500 each. Productive
claims, patented or unpatented, are
assessed at any figure the owner will
stand.
A placer location covering l60
acres is considered as one claim by
the Land Department. When claims
are contiguous each location is con-
sidered by the Land Department as a
separate claim in patent proceedings.
and $500 worth Of work on each
claim is necessary; al may be patent
ed under one application If adjoining
each other. Eight Individual loca-
tions are assumed to be united in
each l60-acre lot II thirty-two
twenty-acre locations $500 worth Of
work must be done upon each one to
entitle the applicant for patent. 1t
requires separate application for
each lot or location II these thirty
two are separate or cannot be joined.
The United States law does not re-
quire locator of mining claim to
sink lo-foot discovery shaft 1t
only requires him to disclose vein
or lode of ore in place. If man
sinks shaft 10 any depth required
by the local or State or Territorial
laws, and then marks his claim and
records it according to law, even
though he has found no ore in place
ia his discovery shaft. and after
wards discovers ore in place in
another part of the location, such dis
covery is held to cure the defect of
not finding ore in place in the dis
covery shaft, and the claim becomes
good and dates to the time of the
original location. This does not ap-
ply to cases where any second locator
has obtained conflicting territory by
location between the dates Of the first
location and the discovery of ore in
place.
As to what constitutes a perfect
location, Sec. 2, Act of May 10th.
'72, Revised Statutes, says: mo To-
cation of a mining claim shall be
made until the discovery of q vein or
lode within the limits of the CLAIM To-
cated.' The time allowed in Colorado
for perfecting title is sixty days to
complete the discovery shaft and
thirty days more to survey and record
location certificate. Mills Annotated
Statutes. Sec. 3l54: ANY open cut,
crosscut or tunnel which shall cut a
lode at a depth of 10 feet below the
surface shall hold such lode the same
as discovery shaft were sunk there
on Colorado statutes require 10
feet depth at least. Morrison, page
36: If crevice does not show in
10 feet the shaft must 90 deeper;
If it appears sooner the 10 feet must
still be completed" The assessment
work is that done in the discovery
shaft and the annual labor 4 the
500 worth Of work performed an
nually thereafter.
The idea Of annual assessmsnt lsvied
on IN unpatented mining claim = 70
keep the claim from lApsing. II
won't amount to anything TO just