The record-union., 1899-05-07
Pacific Coast
Mining News.

The following items will be valuable 10
all Who are interested in the mineral
. resources and developments of the Pa
cific Coast States:
MINING LAWS.
A. H. Ricketts, of San Francisco, VINO
is a well-known law writer on mining
subjects, says: THE effect of the repeai
: Of the Mining Act of 1897 by the last
Legislature of this State is to relegats
the acquisition and maintaining or ute
TO mining claims to the provisions OF
/. the Federal mining law and the local
rules, regulations and customs OIL nllh-
. ers, and If there are none CT the Iatlef,
wholly to the United States laws.
1t is not necessary to the validity OF
) a mining location within the state Oh
California that the same shall be STU
ated Within any organized district, pul
the miners have now the unrestricted
! adght to form mining districts ana TO-
mulate such rules and regulations as
they may see proper, which are net III
consistent with the paramount or RED
: eral mining law-that is to say, tney
may now prescribe the boundaries OF
/. the distinct and the manner OF locating
a. mining claim, whether the same De
lode or a placer claim, and the place,
! manner and time Of recording the same,
providing that each record contains
such description of the claim by refer
ence to some natural object or perma-
nent monument as will readily identify
the claim.
THE miners of the district may now
provide for the election of a mining dis
. trict recorder, the posting and filing of
! notices Of location, and under such
! rules regulations CIR customs the notices
of location will be prima facie evidence
of the facts recited therein in any court
. in this State. Miners may still record
their notices with the County Recorder,
/. but unless the district rules so provide
such notices will not be admissible in
1 evidence.
: In order to make a valid location in
/ the State of California under the laws
now existing therein, and in the absence
of amy local rules, regulations and Gus
tornSs it is sufficient to make a discovery
of the lode, post upon the ground a no.
tice of location containing the mama Of
the locator, the date of the location, the
name of the claim and such description
3 of the claim located by reference to
some natural object or permanent mon
! ument as will identify the claim and by
. placing monument, which generally
9 consists of a stake set in a mound of
: stones at each corner of the four corr
< ners of the claim, and a similar monu-
nlent at the center end of the location,
: and, for safety, to record the same in
! the office of the County Recorder of the
s county in which the claim is situated.
And upon any claim located since the
( repeal of the Act of 1897 no work need
be done on any location until during the
second calendar year Of the location
'FSinee the repeal of the Act of 1897 it
. is not necessary to complete the loca-
S ticn by doing the amount of work with
3 in the sixty days required under that
Act nor the filing of the final or COM
pleted notiee-that is the second notice
of location therein provided for. The
6 State law wholly ceases to operate on
the claim.
A QUICKSILVER DEAL.
Vallejo Chronicle: Articles Of incor-
poration of the Original ST. Johns
Quicksilver Mining Company We're re-
ceived in Vallejo to-day. The company
is incorporated with 100000 capital at
81 per share. The Board of Directors
are James Clyne of Benicia, Phil B.
Lynch, joel A. Harvey and D. ]. Vosel-
man of Vallejo and Alphonse A. Tregido
of San Francisco The latter will be
superintendent.
The object of this incorporation is to
reopen the ST. Johns quicksilver mine
and reduce its ores
The St. John mine is located at Hun
ter's Hill, about a mile from the Sui
phur Spring road, in Solano County.