Arizona republican., 1910-03-10

4 In due time the surveyor general issues to the mineral surveyor named in the application a survey order. in which d serial number is given to the particular survey authorized. This is the surveyors warrant for entering upon any lands necessary in order to make the survey. No survey is official unless in pursuance of an order from the surveyor general of the district.
 [ The United States mineral sur veyor designated thereupon makes a complete survey of the premises, locat- ing and fixing the corners of all the claims, locating the discovery point, all the shafts, cuts, tunnels. buildings and machinery with reference 10 the near ties to the nearest section corners. or if ties to the nearest section corns, or if upon unsurveyed land or suspended townships then to the nearest mineral monument. Assistants must DC sworn. after the survey. before an officer qualified to administer oaths. Neither the claimants themselves nor agents thereof may act as assistants in min eral surveys. An underground survey must generally be made in order to plat the same upon the map. in plan only All corner stones or posts must be set up to government standard and Chiseled or scribed with the claim ini- tials. number of corner and survey number.
 6. There is then prepared the plat and field notes from the mineral sur veyor to the surveyor general. These very commonly take much more time than the actual field work. as they must be prepared with absolute ac- curacy and fidelity 10 detail as re- quired by the department. They must show. in addition to the data previous Iy mentioned. the distances intersect- ed on all the sectional lines. complete calculation of areas by double meridian distances. the sectional subdivisions made fractional. the errors found in previous contiguous surveys. and many other minor details.
 7 Examination of the above is then made by the surveyor general. The re- turns by the surveyor must await their turn in the surveyor generals of< flee before coming up for approval This sometimes takes two or three months or longer. The returns are then examined by skilled force of clerks and deputies. all calculations, ties. boundaries. intersections. etc, are rechecked and the notes and plat searched for irregularities. If any are found the notes are returned to the mineral surveyor for correction, and when again received must generally await their turn for approval: To ob- tain the approval of survey three months is about the average time.
 8. Upon the approval of the survey the surveyor general prepares an ap- proval copy of the plat for each claim in the survey. and three extra copies. One copy is retained. one forwarded to the general land office at Washing ton. one to the local land office and the others, with as many transcripts of the field notes. are returned to the claimants. Each plat contains the of- ficial approval of the surveyor gen. eraf and his certificate of $500 i'm provements. as returned by the min eral surveyor.
 Upon receipt by the claimants or their attorneys of the plats and tram scripts the matter is in shape for the patent application proper.
 Method of Procedure in Patent AppIi-
 cations for Lode Claims.
 Upon receipt of the approved plats