Stikeen River journal., 1899-07-15

operate, however, to withdraw lands chiefly valuable for building stone from entry under any existing law applic- able thereto. Registers and receivers should therefore make reference to said act on the entry papers in the ease of all placer entries made for lands con taining stone chiefly valuable for build- ing purposes. It will be noted that lands reserved fol the benefit of public schools or donated to any State are not subject to entry under said act.
 PETROLEUM AND OTHER MINERAL
 OILS.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assem- bled, That any person authorized to enter lands under the mining laws of the United States may enter and obtain patent to lands containing petroleum or other mineral oils, and chiefly valuable therefor under the provision of the laws relating to placer claims: Provid- ed that lands containing snch pctrol- cum or other mineral oils which have heretofore been filed upon. claimed, or improved as mineral. but not yet pat cnted, may be held and patented under the provisions of this act the same as if such filing. claim, or Improvement were subsequent to the passage hereof.
 21. It is to be observed that the pro visions of the mineral laws relating to placcrs are by said act extended so as to allow the location and entry there under of public lands chiefly valuable for petroleum or other mineral oils, and entries of that nature made prior to the passage of said act are to be considered as though made hereunder.
 2s By section 233O authority is given for the subdivision of iourty-acre legal subdivisions into ten acre lots. which is intended for the greater convenience of miners to segrcGate their claims both one from another and from intervening agricultural lands.
 29. It is held, therefore. that under d proper construction of the law these ten acre lots in mining districts shond be considered and dealt with. to all in- tents and purposes. as legal subdivis- ions. and that an applicant having Il legal claim which conforms to one or moro of these ten acre lots. either ad joining or cOrnering, may make entry thereof. after the usual proceedings. without survey or plat.
 30 In cases of this kind, however, the notice given of the application must be very specific and accurate in description. and as the forty acre tracts may be subdividcd into ten-aere lots. either in the form of squares of ten by ten chains. or if parallelograms. five by twenty chains. so long as the lines are parallel and at right angles with the lines of the public surveys. it will be necessary that the notice and application state specifically what ten acre lolS uit sought lo tt l'tlclltt'i Ill addition to the other data required in the notice.
 3l. Where the ten-acre subdivision is in the form of square it may be described for instance. as the "SE4 of the SW.4 of NV. L." or if in the form of a parallelogram as aforesaid. it may lao, | l,, , ,F 1, of the SW. l of NV. tor the x. of the $. of the SEE. ] of the SE.4 of sec ton, township. range--- as the case may be: but in addition to the description of the land. the notice must give all the data that is required in d mineral application. by which parties may be put on inquiry as to the premises sought to be patented. 1 The proofs submitted with applications for claims of this kind must show clear ly the character and the extent of the Improvements upon the premises. The proof of the improvements must show their value to be not less than fg" :. ..u,..u .ars and that they were made by the applicant or his grantors. The annual expenditure to the amount of :loo. required by See ton 2324. Revised Statutes. must be made upon placer d, well as.lode claims
 32. applicants for patent to a placer who are al,o in possession of a known vein nr lnd,. iuclnlnn thnrnin mnst