The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22
Chauncey L. Wood, Attorney.
Nj, A. No, 1902.
United States Land Office, Rapid
City, s. ID.
January 9th 1904.

NV
January 9th 1904.
Notice of Application for a Patent.
Notice is hereby given that James
McCurdy, whose postof1ce address is
Pactola, south Dakota, has this day
filed his application for u patent for one
hundred and ten (l10) acres Of the
McCurdy Placer. Mining Claim, or
mineral deposit bearing placer gold.
situated in no organized m / n i e
district Pennington County, south
Dakota and more particularly described
as folio vs. to-wlt:
The west half of the west hall south
west quarter of the northwest quarter,
of secJion one d. and the west half Of
the northwest quarter OF the southwest
quarter Of section one a. and the
South half of the southeast quarter of
| the northeast quarter of section two (2)
and the south half Of the southwest
quarter of the northeast quarter of
section two (2,) ard the north half Of
the northwest quarter and the south
east quarter OF section two z. and the
north half Of the northeast quarter Of
the southeast quarter Of section Two (2)
all in township one r. north of range
five east of the Black Hills Meridian in
Pennington County, south Dakota.
Said McCurdy placer Nj i q n e
Claim, is bounded on the east by the
Orange Placer Mining Claim, claimed
by l.. A. Richards and others and on
the south by Government land, and on
the west by the Duncan Placer Mining
Claim, belonging to Arthur Harvey,
and on the north by the Uranium group
OF quartz mining claims, and unoccu-
pied government LAND. That no min
ing claims whatever conflict with the
said McCuady PlacerMining Claim.
That the said McCurdy placer min
ing claim, was located many years ago,
to-wit, March 2lst 1877. by James
McCurdy Anthony Armstrong, George
Buckingham John P. McElroy, ST.,
Archy McCurdy, and James Quirpel.
the original location certificate thereof
having been lost before being recorded,
in the office of the Register of Deeds of
sid County: That all OF the interests
of the said Anthony Armstrong, George
Buckingham, John P. McElrov sr..
Archie McCurdy, and James Quirpel.
were 500 after the said location trans
ferred by quit-claim deed BY each
of said %locators to this applicant James
McCurdy, all Of which said deeds.
were smislaid and lost many wears 400,
without having been recorded.
That this applicant, James McCurdy.
ana his said associates, to-wit, his pre-
decessor in interest, have held and
worked said McCurdy placer minina
Claim, Tor period equal to the time,
prescribed by the Statute OF limitations
for mining claims, in the state of south
Dakota, n former territory of Dakota.
mat there is a vein or lode, includ-
ed within the boundaries of SAID Me
Curdy placer mining claim, to-wit,
twenty rods square in the southwest
corner OF the said north half of the
northeast quarter of the southeast
quarter, if said section two IT, and more
particularly described as followg to-wit:
Beginning q the southwest corner. Of
sad north half OF the northeast quar-
ter OF the southeast quarter OF said sec
tlon two " thence north on the west
line Thereon twenty rods, thence east.
tWentyrods, thence south twenty rods'
tnence west twenty rods to place Of
beginning, containing two acres ana
nifty one-hundredths acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad vers-
ely any portion of said McCurdy placer
mining claim, are required to ale their
adverse claims with the Register Of the
United States Land Office, at Rand
lily, South Dakota, during the sixty
days period of publication hereof ~
they Will be barred by virtue of tn.
provisions of the statutes in such cases
made and provided. ~
GEORGE P. BENNETT Register,
" 10 hereby ordered, that the FORE
gong notice, OF application for patent
DC published for nine CONSECUTIVE
weeks In tho Black Hill's Union =
weekly newspaper, printed and nuh-
l1shed at Rapid CITY, P%enniprsnn
county South Dakota, being tbs pansr
published nearest the claim.
GEORGE P. BENNETT Registrar