Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-06-10
SURVEYS FOR MINE PATENTS MUST
 BE FILED
INFORMATION OF INTEREST TO THOSE DESIRING MINERAL
 CLAIM TITLES
SHOULD BE IN BY OCTOBER 20
SURVEYOR GENERAL APPEALS TO CLAIMANTS TO HAVE WORK
 COMPLETED EARLY

Existing laws require the claimant of A mineral location to have correct official survey of his claim made un- der the authority of the surveyor gen eral of the state or territory in which bis claim is situated prior 10 making application to the officers of the local land office for patent thereto, in view of the fact that the official survey is the basis of such application for patent. One copy of the approved plat of sur yey is furnished the claimant or his attorney by the surveyor general, which plat, together with a copy of notice of his intention to apply for patent is re- ouired to bs posted in a conspicuous place on his claim. After posting said plat and notice upon the premises, the claimant will file with the register and receiver of the local land office for the district in which his claim is situated application for patent, and, if no req son appears for the rejection of the application, the register will, at the ex- pense of the claimant, publish a notice of such application for a patent for period of sixty days in the newspaper published nearest the claim.
 From the foregoing, it is obvious that. in order to secure copy of the plat of survey so as to enable the claimant to post the same for the period of sixty days prior to the end of the calendar year, the survey should receive my ap- proyal not later than October goth. The field notes of a mineral survey should be filed in this office at the ear Hest possible date, in order to insure the receipt by the claimant of the ap- proved plat of his survey no later than October 20, 1909. This will avoid the necessity of the claimants doing an nual assessemnt work on each location for the succeed ng calendar year, Tn the event of the issuance of final cer- tifcate by the register of the local land office prior to the end of the current calendar year.
 Each year during the months of Aug ust September and October, numerous applications ere filed with me for the survey of mineral claims, which result in a large number of field notes being fled in this office during those months, especially the latter ones. Naturally the work in the Mineral department of the office becomes eongested and, conse- quently, some surveys cannot be ap- proved by me soon enough to permit the claimant to post his plat for the re- quired sixty-day period prior to the end of the calendar year. It IS the policy of the surveyor general to ac- commodate mineral claimants in the matter of expediting office work in con nection with the survey of the'r mining claims as far as it is within his power to do so, but the fact must not be lost sight of that the number of employees in the Mineral department of this othce is of necessity limited. |
 It therefore behooves all mineral claimants who anticipate making appli- cation for patent to their holdings, m the expectation of securing final eertih- cate during the present year, to cause their claims to be of ally survyed at once and thus avoid the danger of their surveys not being approved in good sea son.
 FRANK s. INGALLS,,
 U. s. Surveyor-General. Phoenix, Arizona.