The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-04-20
AMENDMENTS TO
LOCATION LAWS

mill sites. tunnel rights. amount OF
work necessary to hold possession of
mining claims and the right of co-own-
ers therein. which was passed at the re-
cent session of the legislature and ap-
proved on March 20. has been received
by Watson q Van Dyke of this city.
The amendments are of vital import
work or interested in mining in Nevada.
The act is as follows:
Section l.. Section one of the above
entitled act is hereby amended so as to
read as follows:
Sec. 1. Any person. n citizen of the
United States. or one who has declared
his intention to become such. who dis
covers a vein or lode may locate a claim
upon such vein or LODI by defining the
boundaries OF the claim in the manner
hereinafter described and by posting
notice of such location at the time and
point OF discovery. which notice must
be posted upon one of the several monu-
ments prescribed in section two of this
act. and such notice must contain: first.
the name OF the lode or claim: second.
the name of the locator or locators;
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number of linear feet claimed in length
along the course of the vein each way
from the point of discovery, with the
width on each side of the center of the
claim and the general course of the vein
or lode as near as may be.
Section 2. Section two of the above
named act is hereby amended so as to
read as follows:
Sec. 2. The locator of a lode mining
claim must sink a discovery shaft upon
the claim located four feet by six feet
to the depth of at least ten feet from
the lowest part of the vein of such shaft
at the surface, or deeper IL necessary,
to show by such work a lode deposit of
mineral in place; a cut or crosscut or
tunnel which cuts the lode at a depth of
ten feet or an open cut along the said
ledge or lode equivalent in size to a
shaft four feet by six feet by ten feet
deep, is equivalent to a discovery shaft.
The locator must define the boundaries
of his claim by removing the top of a
tree (having a diameter of not less than
our inches) not less than three feet
above the ground, and blazing and
marking the same: or by a rock in place,
Gaping such rock with smaller stones.
such rock and stones to ave a height
of not less than three feet; or by set
ting a post or stone one at each corner
and one at the center of each side line.
When a post is used 1t must be at least
four inches in diameter by four and one
half feet in length set one foot in the
ground. When 1t is practically impos-
sible on account of bedrock or precipi-
tous ground to sink such posts they
may be placed in a mound of earth or
stones. or where the proper placing of
such posts or other monuments is i'm
practicable or dangerous to life or limb,
it shall be lawful to place such posts or
monuments at the nearest point prop
erly marked to designate it's right place.
When a stone is used mot a rock in
place. 1t must be not less than six
inches in diameter and eighteen inches
in length set two-thirds of it's length in
the top of a mound of earth or stones,
four feet in iameter and two and one
half feet in height. All trees, posts or
rocks used as monuments. when not
four feet in height, which trees, posts,
stones or rock or monuments must be so
marked as to designate the corners of
the claim located; Provided however,
that the locator of a mining claim shall
within twenty days from the date of
PoStih6 IL botiNC VI Ototioia oShAfS thN
boundaries of said claim by placing at
each corner and at the center of each
side line one of the herejnbefore de-
scribed monuments and shall within 80
lays from the date of posting said loca-
ton notice perform the location work
hereinbefore described.
Section 8. Section three of the above
entitled act is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Sec. 8. Any locator or 1ocators of a
mining claim, after having established
the boundaries of said claim, and after
having complied with the provisions of
this act, with reference to the estab-
lishment of such boundaries, may file
with the district mining recorder a no
tice of location, setting forth the name
given to the lode or vein, the number of
linear feet claimed in length along the
course of the vein, the date of location,
the date on which the boundaries of the
claim were completed, and the name of
the locator or locators. Should any
claim be located in any section or ter
ritory where no district has been as
yet formed, or where there is no dis
trict recorder. the locator or locators of
such claim or claims may file with the
county recorder, notice of location as
set forth above, and said notice of loca-
ton will be prima facie evidence in all
courts of justice of the first location
of said lode or vein. Within 80 days
of the date of posting the location no
tice upon the claim the locator shall
record his claim with the mining dis
trict recorder and the county recorder
of the mining district or county in
which such claim is situated by a loca-
ton certificate which must contain:
First-The name of the lode or vein;
Second-The name of the locator or
locators;
Third-The date Of the location and
such description of the location Of said
claim, with reference to some natural
object or permanent monument as will
identify the claim;
Fourth-The number of linear feet
claimed in length along the course of
the vein each way from the point of dis
covery, with a width on each side of the
center of the vein, and the general
course of the lode or vein as near as
may be;
Fifth-The dimensions and location
of the discovery shaft, or its equivalent,
sunk upon the claim;
Sixth-The location and description
of each corner. with the markings
thereon.
Any record of the location of a lode
mining claim which shall not contain
all the requirements named in this sec