The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1908-07-18
Notice Of Application Of the Oak smelling and
Mining Company for United States Potent to he
Mlrbm Group Of lode Mining CIaims.

Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance of the mining laws of the
United States, The Ozark Smelling
and Mining company, corporation,
by James G.. Fitch, its agent and at
torney, whose post office address is
Socorro, New Mexico, has made ap-
plication to the United States for a
patent 20 the Miriam group of mines,
comprising the Miriam, 1890 and
Edward McGee lodes in Magdalena
Mining District, Socorro county, New
Mexico, aud i'm Frac. Section 81,
Fracl. Township :. Range J W.,
Mineral Survey No. 1878; which lodes
are more fully described as to metes
and bounds in the official plat posted
on said premises, and by the field
notes of said survey, filed in the office
of the Register of the District of
Lands, subject to sale at Las Cruces,
New Mexico; the boundaries and ex-
tent of said claims on the surface
being described as follows:
The Miriam Lode beginning at cor
No. l, identical with cor No. Of
amended location, Limestone chiseled
on side facing claim; whence
1918
corner of sections IS, 90 81, and 10 I
, rs. ; and ! W N. NJ. principal base
aud meridian, which is a granite stone
chiseled with one groove OF and five
grooves on n face, bears 81 dgs 81 min
W 1884 II distant Thence 30 dgS
80 min mag var Il dgs IS min c
1900 Il TO cor No. ,, identical with cor
No. , of amended location, limestone
chiseled on side facing claim.
1918
Thence 6l dgs Is min mag var Il
dgs IS min 900 II to cor No. }, on
line 81, sur No. 25l, Sampson lode at
n. 30 dgs 80 min W 1p3.45 Il from cor
No. thereof; identical with cor No.
of amended location; limestone
chiseled } on side facing claim;
1918
Thence 80 Digs 80 min w, mag var
l5 Digs Is min 1900 Il to cor No. 4,
identical with cor No of amended
location, a limestone chiseled ! on
1918
side facing claim. Thence 6l dgs
Is min e mag var II Digs IS min 900
fl TO cor No. l, place of beginning.
Adjoining aud conflicting claims
are: Edward 'McGee and 1896 lodes,
of this survey, on south end adjoining:
Sampson, Sur No. 23l and Ivanhoe,
unsurveyed, adjoining, and Leader,
uusurveyed, conflicting or adjoining
on west side; Lone Buck Sur No. S65B,
abandoned, conflicting on north end;
Sleeper and Comstock unsurveyed aud
Pelican, Sur. No. 1920, conflicting on
east side.
Total area Miriam Lode 20. 640 acres.
Excluded from this application.
Part of area in conflict with Sleeper
2.653 acres.
Part of area in conflict with Com
stock 2.lSl acres.
Part of area in conflict with Pelican
l .676 acres.
Net area Miriam Lode l4.l69 acres.
The original location of the Miriam
Lode is recorded in Book .. at page
500, and the amended location in Book
64, at pages 41-+2, in the office of the
Recorder of said Socorro county.
The 1896 Lode, beginning at cor No.
l, identical with cor No. I, of amend
ed location, a quartzite stone chiseled
on the side facing claim, whence
1918
cor of is and ) 5, rs } and W, N. NJ.
principal base and meridian, lirne-
stone. chiseled q notches on II $ c and
w edges, bears 5 ~ dgs % min W 22S6
II hlHNdllls L utllNt II ~ ubS D. ullil W
mag var Il dgs 1900 II to cor no. ,,
identical with cor No. /, of amended
location; a limestone chiseled ,
1918
on side facing claim; thence 61 Digs
Is min mag var l3 dgs Is min 60l.S
| It to cor No. J, identical with cor No.
,, amended location, limestone chis-
eled 2-5 on side facing claim;
thence 80 Digs 81 min e, mag var Il dgs
IS min l49O07 # TO cor No. 4, identi-
cal with cor No. of amended loca-
ton, limestone chiseled IA on side
1918
facing claim: thence 6l Digs Is min "
mag var l5 Digs 5S7 II TO cor No. l,
the place of beginning.
Adjoining and conflicting claims
are---Miriam Lode of this survey ad
joining on the north; Pelican Lode
Sur No. 1920, conflicting on the norti
and east; Eureka No. Lode Sur. No
1920 conflicting on the east; Edward
McGee Lode of this survey, adjoining
on the east; Mabel G. Lode, unsurvey
ed adjoining on the south; Crane
Tower Lode, Sur. No. 265 adjoining
aud Sampson Lode. Sur No. 23l con
nicting on the west. Total area o
1896 Lode is 20. 362 acres; area in con
hict with Sampson Lode excluded
from this application is .020 acres
leaving net area of 1896 Lode 20.55,
acres.
The original location of the lS@
Lode is recorded i'm Book 30 at page
269-7O and the amended Location
thereof i'm Book "a at pages 42-43 IL
the Office of the Recorder of said Sc
corro county.
The Edward McGee Lode, begin
ming at cor No. /, identical with co
No. , of the amended location, an
with cor No. 4 of the 1890 Lode of thi
survey, limestone, chiseled Ia ol
1918
side facing the claim: whence cor o
Is and } RS aud 4 W., heretofOr
described, bears-s 81 Digs min '
2S3O.91 Il distant. Thence n 80 dg
81 min W., mag var Il dgs IS min {
1499.O7 II TO cor No. ?. identical wit
cor No. of amended location aud CO
No. 3 of the 1890 Lode Of this survey
a limestone chiseled 2-3 on side fac
1918
ing claim. Thence n 6i dgs Is min
mag var II Digs IS min e 465.46 II to CO
No. }, limestone chiseled on sid