The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-10-01
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED STATES
JANn OEFrcE

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED STATES
LAND OFFICE.
Spokane. Wash, July n, 1908.
William F. Miller. protestant, VS.. Charles H.
Bromley, Understanding timber and
stone entry No. $3.50 [0402].
By letter "N' 973S OF May 10Th, 1908, the Hon
orable Commissioner of the General Land
Office ordered hearing upon the affidavit OF
protest of William F. Miller. filed May Goth,
1905, against the timber and stone entry OF
Charles H. Bromley, No. $685. for E1a sw14, Sec:
William F. Miller alleges: That the said pro-
testant and his co-owners, viz: d. Miller,
Henry Bell. FL. E: schlegel, John H. Bowers,
Sam Olson. A. j. WEIGH. - Brown and
Anton Feiss, are the owners of the following
lode mineral claims, viz: The Stars and Stripes,
the Independence and the Spike lodes; that
OF Sec. g. Twp. 80 n, r. As E. W. NJ; that said
claims have been duly located and recorded
according to the laws of the State of Washing
ton and of the United States; that development
work has been done by the protestee and his
cO-Owners and their predecessors in title upon
said mineral claims to the amount of $6OO.O0,
and that said work consists of tunnels shafts
and cuts; that upon the Indepence lode there
has been run a tunnel or open out cut 25 feet
long, s feet wide and averaging 5 feet deep;
that there has been dug therein shaft about
and said shaft are in ore and said ore contains
gold, silver and copper. That an assay has
been made from ore taken from said Indepen-
dence mineral lode claim and such assay con-
tains and 2-lo per cent of copper. That upon
each of the other mineral claims above enum-
Grated there are either cuts or shafts exposing
ore consisting Of gold, silver and copper. That
said land on which said mineral claims is situ-
ated is more valuable for the gold, silver and
copper that it contains than for agricultural
land OF for any other purpose. That ore is found
in paying quantities on each of said lodes.
That said mineral claims were located and are
held in good faith for the pur pose OF develop
ing and mining same, and since February,
1906, protestant, his cO-OWnerS and their pred
ecessors in Interest have been working said
claims and employed men in doing develop
ment work and extracting mineral therefrom,
That on December 4th, 1907, said Charles H.
Bromley made timber and stone entry No. $3.50
for the land hereinbefore described.
Now, therefore, yOn, the said Charles H.
Bromley, are hereby notified that hearing
has been set to take place at the United States
Land Office at Spokane, Washington on the
9th day of October. A. D. 1908. at the hour of
ten [10] O'Clock in the forenoon, at which time
and place you and each Of You may be present
with your witnesses and Introduce such testi-
mony as you desire bearing on the issues in
vOlved herein.
The protestant having in a proper affidavit,
filed Septem Der 24th 1908, set forth facts which
show that after due diligence personal service
OF this notice cannot be made it is hereby
ordered and directed that such notice be given
by due and proper publication.
Hal J. COLE, Register.
94 1922 s A. WELLS, Receiver.