The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-02-26
Chauncey L Wood, Attorney.
NJ, A. No. 1902.
United States Land Office, Rapid
City. S. d,
January 9Th 1904.
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Notice of Application for a Patent
Notice is hereby given that James
McCurdy, whose %postoffice address is
fled his application for a patent for one
McCurdy Placer Mining Claim, or
mineral deposit bearing placer gold.
situated in no Organized mining
district Pennington County, south
Dakota and more particularly described
as folio IS to-wlt:
The west half OF the west ball south
west quarter of the northwest quarter,
OF section n a. and the vest 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 ~
and the south half of the southwest
quarter OF the northeast quarter of
section W u ard the north half Of
the northwest quarter of the sonth-
east quarter OF section two ~ and the
north half Of the northeast quarter of
the southeast quarter Of section two (2)
all in township one ~ north of range
five east Of the Black Hills Meridian Ia
Pennington County, South Dakota.
Said McCurdy placer VI lining
Claim. IS bounded on the east By the
Orange Placer Mining Claim, claimed
By l.. y. Richards and others aud on
the south by Government land, and on
the west by the Duncan Placer Mining
Cain. belonging to Arthur Harvey,
and on the Qorta bg the Uranium group
OF quartz mining claims, n unoccu-
pied government lane. That no min
ing claims whatever conflict with the
said McCuady ,PIacerMining Claim.
That the said NcCurdy placer min
ing claim, was located many years ago,
to-wit, March Dist 1877, by James
McCurdy Anthony Armstrong, George
Buckingham John P. McEl7oy, ST.,
Archy McCucdy. and James Quirpel,
the original location certificate thereof
having been lost before being recorded.
in the office OF the Register of Deeds of
said County: That al OF the interests
of the said Anthony Armstrong, George
buckingham, John P. McElroy ST.,
Archie McCurdy, and James Quirpel,
were soon 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 mislaid and lost many years ago,
without having been recorded.
That this applicant, James McCurdy,
ana his SAID associates, tO-wit. his ore
decessor in interest, have held and
worked said McCurdy placer mining
claim, TOR period equal to the time,
prescribed by the statute Of limitations
for mlulng claims, in the state of south
Dakota, and former territory of Dakota.
That there is a vein or lode, includ-
ed within the boundaries of said Nc
Curdy placer mining claim. to-wir,
twenty rods square in the southwest
corner OF the said north half of the
northeast quarter of the southeast
quarter If said section two z, and more
particularly described as followg to-wit:
Beginning a the southwest corner, of
said north half of the northeast quar-
ter OF the southeast quarter of said sec
tlon two " thence north on the west
line thereof twenty rods, thence east,
tWentyrods, thence south twenty rods,
thence west twenty rods to place OF
beginning, containing two acres and
fifty one-hundredths acres.
Any and all persons claiming advers-
ely any portion Of said McCurdy placer
mining claim, are required to file their
adverse claims with the Register of the
United States Land Office, at Rapid
City, South Dakota, during the sixty
days period of publication hereof or
they will be barred by virtue of the
provisions Of the statutes in such cases
made and provided.
GEORGE P. BENNETT Register.
1t is hereby ordered, that the fore
going notice, of application for patent
be published for nine consecutive
weeks in the Black Hills Union, a
weekly newspaper, printed and pub
llshed at Rapid City, Pennington
County, South Dakota, being the paper
published nearest the claim.
GEORGE P. BENNETT Register.