Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-17
IMPORTANT MINING ORDER.
Was Received at the office Of Surveyor
General Anderson Today.

Surveyor General Anderson OF the
Utah land office, today received the fol-
lowing important order which will be
Of the highest interest to mining men IN
this locality and throughout the coun-
try generally:
Department Of the Interior, Washing
ton 10 the Commissioner Of the Cen
eral Land Office. Sir-The department
Is in receipt Of communication from
your office dated July 10, 1904. submit
ting for consideration here draft OF pro-
posed amendment Of paragraph l41 OF
the official mining regulations. The de-
partment has deemed II necessary to
make certain changes In the draft sub
mitted, and the paragraph in question,
amended to read as follows, is hereby
approved:
li7.--If an official mineral survey
has been made in the vicinity, within
a reasonable distance, a further con
Meeting line should be run to some cor
ner thereof; and in like manner all
conflicting surveys and locations should
be SO connected, and the corner with
which connection is made in each case
described Such connections viii be
made and conflicting claims as each Is
marked, defined and actually establish
ed upon the ground The mineral sur
veyor will fully and specifically state
In his return how and by what visible
evidences he was able to Identify on the
ground the several conflicting surveys
and those which appear according to
their returned tie or boundary lines TO
conflict, II they were so Identified, and
report errors or discrepancies found by
him In any such surveys. In the sur
yey Of contiguous claims which consti-
tute consolidated group. whore cor
ners are common, bearings should be
mentioned but once.
In this connection, II may be remark
ed that mineral patent Is with the
record In a mining case on appeal here,
In which but one monument, stated
therein to be situate at corner No. 1 OF
the claim there In question, Is found to
be mentioned, Notwithstanding four
monuments are referred TO and describ-
ed In the report OF the deputy mineral
surveyor accompanying the approved
survey OF the claim as marking the
four corners Of the claim upon the
ground. 1t has also been informally re-
ported to the department that the prac-
tce has prevailed In your Office to a
greater or less extent Of issuing miner
al patents in which no mention what
ever Is made OF any Of the monuments
reported and described by the deputy
mineral surveyors
Your attention Is directed to the re-
Quiroments under Section 1926 Revised
Statutes, that an applicant for min
eral patent shall file with his appli-
cutIon--a plat and field notes Of the
claim or claims I'm common. made bv
or under the direction of the United
states surveyor general showing ac-
curately the boundaries Of the claim
or claims, which shall be distinctly
marked BY monuments on the ground
land that within the 60 days period
Of publication he shall file certificate
Of the surveyor general-that the
plat Is correct with such further de-
scription by such reference To natural
objects or permanent monuments as
shall Identify the claim and furnish
am accurate description, to be incor-
porated I'm the patent
In view OF the foregoing, and Of the
provisions Of the mining regulations
pursuant thereto II IL to he observed
that tho practise referred to Is I'M
authorized and unwarranted. Here
after, your Office will be- careful to
include IN every mineral patent an
adequate and accurate description "
each Of the Monuments reported I'm
connection with the survey Of the
claim for which the patent Is 10 issue,
and to state &C the appropriate point
In the instrument the particular corner
reported to be marked or witnessed on
the ground by each monument, ana
win also include therein such addi-
tiona bearings as may be reported IN
connection with any such monuments,
description OF reported points Of in
tcrsectlon with other approved SUR
ycys, aud generally all data with
respect to the designation OF the ac-
tual locus Of the claim prescribed UNI
der or In connection with paragraphs
g. SO. IS, as, 1i3, IA, l45, i46 and
1874 Of the mining regulations, AS far
as set forth In the report Of the min
eml surveyor. This requirement win
apply 10 all mineral patents not yet
issued from your Office In any case
In which the report OF a deputy min
eral surveyor should contain no mem
ton and description OF monuments as
defining the boundaries OF n claim
upon the ground, patent viii be with
held until the claim shall be shown to
have been SO defined, ms required by
the law and official regulations, and
the monuments are particularly de-
scrihed In supplemental report, duly
approved by the surveyor general.
Very respectfully
(sgned) THOS RYAN
Acting Secretary.