Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-08-17
STRIKERS TO
ASK FOR AID
Every Union Laborer of the Coun-
try Will be Requested
to Assist.
APPEAL FROM D0NNELLY
President Of Butchers Union Goes
to Samuel Compers
for Help.

! Chicago, Aug. 17.-Every union
working man and woman in the coun-
try, about three million in number, ac-
cording to the leaders Of organized Ia
Dor, is to be asked to contribute to
the support of the packing house strik-
ers. President Donnelly said today
that such an appeal would be sent out.
President Samuel Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor, DonneI-
ly said, would be asked to make an ap-
peal for funds.
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Las Vegas; w. S. Prayer, Roswell;
Thomas D. Burns, Jr., TERRA Amarillo;
Charles Schleter, Clayton; Harry F.
Lee Albuquerque, is secretary of the
board.
Amended Mining Regulations.
Following is copy of department.
al letter of August 8, amending para
graph LAT of the mining regulations
and giving certain instructions relative
to issuance Of patents for mining
claims:
Department Of the Interior,
Washington, D. c.
August IL, 1904.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office:
Sir-The Department is in receipt of
communication from your Office, dated
July IS, 1904, submitting for considera-
ton here draft of proposed amend
ment of paragraph LAT of the official
mining regulations. The Department
has deemed it necessary to make GER
tain changes in the draft submitted;
and the paragraph in question amend
ed to read as follows, is hereby ap-
proved:
147. If an ojcial mineral survey has
been made in the vicinity, within a
reasonable distance, a further connect
ing line should be run to some corner
thereof and in like manner all con-
flicting surveys and locations should
be so connected, and the corner with
connection is made in each case de-
scribed. Such connections will be
made and conflicts shown according
to the boundaries of the neighboring
or conflicting claims as each is marked.
defined and actually established upon
the ground. The mineral surveyor will
fully and specifically state In his re.
turn how and by what visible evil
dences 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, if they were so identified, and
report errors or discrepancies found by
him in any such surveys. In the sur
vey of contiguous claims which consti.
tute consolidated group, where cor
ners are common, bearings should be
mentioned but once.
In this connection, it may be re-
marked that a mineral patent is with
the record in mining case on appeal
here, in which but one monument.
stated therein to be situate at corner
No. of the claim there in question.
is found to be mentioned, notwithstand.
ing four monuments are referred to
and described in the report of the dep
uty mineral surveyor accompanying
the approved survey of the claim, as
upon the ground. 1t has also been in
madking the four corners of the claim
formally reported to the Department
that the practice has prevailed in your
office, to a greater or less extent, of is
suing mineral patents in which no men
ton whatever is made of any Of the
monuments reported and described by
the deputy mineral surveyors.
Your attention is directed to the re-
quirements under section 1925, Re-
vised Statutes, that an applicant for
mineral patent shall file with his ap.
plication plat and field notes of the
claim or claims in common, made by
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,
and that within the sixty days period
of publication he shall file q certifi-
cate 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
an accurate description, to be incor-
porated with the patent
In view of the foregoing, and Of the
provisions of the mining regulations
pursuant thereto, it is to be observed
that the practice referred to is unau-
and unwarranted Hereafter,
your Office will be careful to include in
every mineral patent an adequate and
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