Bisbee daily review., 1904-08-17

 ceived by the Review is brought for ward question that, though familiar, will bear the full explanation that is added thereto for the general informa- tion of the mining public:
 Wilcox, A. T., Aug. 15, 1904. Editor Review:-
 It has been the custom here for own- CTS of mining claims to locate mill sites in connection herewith. In great many instances the annual work has been compiled with. so far as the mines are concerned, but noth- ing done on the mill sites. Can these mill sites be lawfully held that way? If not would you mind stating through your paper what is necessary to hold mill sites. Copps mining code Goss not state what to do and neither is it stated in the United States mining laws and regulations hereunder, is sued by the General Land Office. E. J. HANDS. The fiftieth edition of Copps Ameri- can Mining Code contains. page l5. g copy of the United States law gov erning the location of mill sites. The cdAle VIII Dt lO1a0 Nht V States Mining Laws and Regulations Thereunder" approved July 26. 1901, issued from the General Land Ofice; the law provides as follows:
 "61. Land entered as a mill site must be shown to be non-mineral- Mill sites are simply auxiliary to the working of mineral claims, and as section 2337, which provides for the patenting of mill sites. is embraced in the chapter of the Revised Statutes relating to mineral lands. they are therefore included in this circular.
 "62 To avail themselves of this provision of law parties holding the possessory right to vein or lode, and to a piece of non-mineral land not contiguous thereto for mining or mill ing purposes. not exceeding the quant- ity allowed for such purpose by sec tion 2337, or prior laws. under which the land was appropriated. the pro prietors of such vein or lode may file in the proper land flee their applica- tion for q patent, under oath in man ner already set forth herein, which application, together with the plat and field notes, may include, embrace. and describe, in addition to the vein or lode. such noncontiguous mill site, and other due proceedings as to no tice. etc. a patent will be issued con- veying the same as one claim. The owner of a patented lode may. by an
 independent application secure mill site if good faith is manifest in its use or occupation in connection with the lode and no adverse claim ex- ists.
 "s3 Where the original survey in- clu6es a lode claim and also a mill site the lode claim should be described in the plat and field notes as Sur. No 37. A and the mill site as Sur No 37 B or whatever may be its appro- pTiate numerical designation; the course and distance from a corner of the mill site to a corner of the lode claim to be invariably given in such plat and field notes, and copy of the plat and notice of application for pat ent must be conspicuously posted up on the mill site as well as upon the vein or iode for the statutory period of sixty days. In making the entry no separate receipt or certificate need be issued for the mill site, but the whole area of both lode and mill site will be embraced in one entry, the price being five dollars for each acre ehd fractional part of an acre embraced by such lode and mill-site claim.
 "64. In case the owner of quartz mill or reduction works is not the owner or claimant Of vein or lode the law permits him to make applica- lion therdfor in the same manner prescribed herein for mining claims. and after due notice and proceedings. in the absence of a valid adverse fii- ing. to enter and receive patent for his mill site at said price per acre"