Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-19
Which Changes the Present
Mining Law
GOVERNING LOCATIONS
Date Upon Which Annual Labor Must
be Performed is Changed From the
Last Day of December to the First
Day of October.

In the senate of the United States, De-
cember 6, Mr.. Stewart introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the committee on mines and
mining:
Be it enacted by the ena and house
OF representatives of the United States of
America in congress assembled, thai sec
ton tWenty-three hundred and twenty
four of the revised statutes be amended so
as to read
Sec. 1924. The miners of each mining
district may make regulations not in
conflict with the laws of the United States
or with the laws of the state or territory
In which the district is situated, govern
ing the location, manner of recording
amount of work necessary to hold pos
session of a mining claim, subject to the
following requirements: The location
must be distinctly marked on the ground
ny posts or monuments. so that it's
boundaries a be readily traced. All
record of mining claims hereafter made
Shall contain the name or names Of the
locators, the date of the location, and
such a description of the claim or claims
located as will identify the claim. On
each lode claim located after the tenth day
of May, eighteen hundred and seventy
two, and until payment of the purchase
money and a certificate of entry has been
issued therefor, not less thar one hundred
dollars worth of labor shall be performed
or improvements made during each year.
On all lode claims located prior to the
tenth day Of May, eighteen hundred and
seVenty-tWo, ten dollars worth of labor
shall be performed or improvements made
during each year for each one hundred
feet in length along the vein until pay
ment of the purchase money and a certi-
fcate of entry has been issued Therefore;
and for each twenty acres of placer
claims, and for each subdivision thereof
less than twenty acres, fifty dollars
worth OF labor shall be performed or i'm
~provements made during each year until
payment of the purchase money and a
certificate of entry shall be issued there
Tor. But where several adjoining lode
claims, not exceeding five, are owned or
held by the same person, association, or
corporation, and the sum of five undre
dollar or more is expended in any one
year in good faith for the development of
all of the claims so owned or held, not ex-
ceeding five, there shall be no require
ment for separate labor or improvements
TO be performed or made on the several
claims so owned or held during such year.
The year within which the annual labor
or improvements required to be per-
formed or made by this section shall COM
mence at twelve o'clock meridian on the
first day of October of each year: Pro-
vided, That upon claims located previous
to the first day of March in any year the
annual labor or improvements shall be
performed or made on such claim for
that year prior to twelve o'clock meri-
dan of the first day of October next sue
ceeding five, there shall be no require
the last day. of February and prior
prior to twelve O'Clock meridian of the
first day Of October in any year the an
nual labor or improvements required shall
be performed or made within one year
from twelve O'Clock meridian of the first
day of the succeeding October: And pro-
vided further, That only one-half of the
annual labor or improvements required
by this act shall be necessary to be per-
formed or made prior to twelve o'clock
meridian of the first day of October in
the year nineteen hundred but after the
first day of October in the year nineteen
hundred the fun amount of labor or inn
provements required by this act shall be
performed or made upon such claims as
in all other cases during each year prior
to twelve o'clock meridian of the