Williams news., 1908-07-04
IMPORTANT TO MINERS

 lowing letter, which will be of great interest to miners and settlers on government land:
 Phoenix. Ariz June 27, 1908 Editor Williams NEWS,
 Sir:-As a news item 1 have to ,dvise you that the charge made ny me for office work and station ny in connection with the survey If mining claims, where they arr surveyed in a group. will he reduc d from and after July 1, 1908, tht ,ew schedule of charges being az follows:
 For office work to be performed
 in the surveyor generals office
 in Arizona. in connection with
 the survey of mining claims. For a single lode claim $3O co For a group of lode claims, $3O %
 for the first claim and $25.OO for
 each additional claim.
 For each mill site surveyed in con-
 nection with a lode claim, $15 co For a millsite surveyed indepen-
 dent of a lode claim $50 co For a single placer claim $35 co For group of placer claims. $35 co
 for the first claim and $25.OO for
 each additional claim.
 For a group of claims containing
 both lode and placer claims. $3O
 for the first l. de and $25 for
 each additional lode claim, and
 $35 for the first placer claim and
 $25 for each additional placer
 claim.
 All these estimates are subject t. increase should the surveyor gen .ral find that the first deposit + not sufficient to cover the office work.
 I also have to advise you that oi the fund appropriated hy Congress for the survey and resurvey of pub lie lands of the United States for he fiscal year beginning July l 1908 and ending June 30, 1909 $20 GOO thereof has been apportion- -d to the District of Arizona and will therefore he available for the survey of the agriculture and grazing lands of the territory dlr ing that time, and settlers who are residing on unsurveyed land and would like to have the same sur veyed so that they can obtair' patent to their claims, can do SC ny making application to the sur veyor general upon proper blanks, which will be furnished them by he surveyor general upon their request. The applica ton of three bona fide settlers in a township is sufficient to have the full townshil surveyed; the application of two settlers within a township ie suf ficient to have twenty four sections surveyed, and the application of one settler is sufficient to have rwelve sections surveyed, to include his claim. The department. how ever prefers to survey a township in i,s en'irity where the applica 'ions of three settlers in the town ship are available The surveyor general would therefore like to re- ceive the application of az man, bona fde settlers throughout tht territory as possible. and he would like these applications filed al soor after the first day of July, 1908. a. these applications ust be exanlin. ed and reported on as to thei1 good faith by the Field Division of the General Land Office before contracts for the survey can bt awarded. There are many settler. throughout the territory living or unsurveyed land, who would like to have the same surveyed but do not know how to proceed in the matter. By writing to the survey or general they will he gent the proper blar k applications and ful instructions as to how to proceed in the matter.
 Very respectfully. FRANK s INGALLS,, | U. s. Surveyor General