The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-06-17
Mining Regulations.

months Of the date Of his discovery q
proepector must record his claim in the
Office of the recorder of the county in
which the lode is situated. This is
called the fling of . location certifi-
cate.
A claim is formally located by this
method:
First, by sinking . discovery shaft
upou the lode to q depth of at least
ten feet from the lowest part of the
rim of such shaft at the surface, or
deeper if necessary to show we'll de-
fined crsvice.
Second, by posting at the point Of
discovery on the surface a plain sign
or notice containing the name of the
lode, the name of the locator and the
date of discovery.
Third, the discoverer shall have six
ty days from the time of uncovering or
disclosing a lode to sink discovery
shaft thereon.
The length of any lode claim may be
equal to but not to exceed 800 feet
along the vein. The width of lode
claims shall be 1s0 feet on each side
of the center Of the vein or crevice.
There are few exceptions, however.
wherein local laws have reduced this
to seventy five feet on each side of the
center of the vein.
Mote: In Gilpin, Clear Creek, ,!Sum-
ha xxy,Ifh of
claims is $50 feet. In all other coun-
ties in Colorado the claims are 800 feet
wide this being the maximum width
provided by law.
On each claim located and until a
patent has been issued therefor, not
less than S1O0 worth of labor shall be
performed or improvements made each
year The period within which the
work required to be done annually on
all unpatented claims shall commence
on the first day Of January succeeding
the date of location Of such claim.
Surface boundaries must be marked
by six substantial posts hewed or
marked on the side or sides which are
toward the claim and sunk in the
ground in this manner One at each
corner and one at the center of each
side line. To do this, of course 1t will
be necessary to have the claim sur
vsyed. Where it is practically i'm
possible on account Of bedrock to sink
the boundary posts they may be placed
in a pile of stones. In marking the
surface boundaries of a claim il any
ono or more of such posts shall fall
by right upon percipitous ground,
whore the proper placing of it is i'm
practicable or dangerous to life or
limb, it shall be legal and valid to
plase any such post at the nearest
practicable point suitably marked to
designate the proper place.
Any open cut. crosscut or tunnel
which shall cut lode At the depth OF
ten feet below the surface shall hold
such lode the same as if a discovery
shaft were sunk thereon, OF an adit Of
atleast ten feet in along the lode from
the point where the lode may be in
any manner discovered, shall be
equivalent to a discovery shaft.
The location or location certificate
of any lode claim shall be construed to
include all surface lines thereof and all
lodes and lodges throughout their en-
tire depth the top or apex Of which
lies inside of such lines extended down
} ward vertically with such parts of all
~lodes or ledges as continue by dip be-
,ond the side lines of the claim but
shall not include any portion of such
lsdes or ledges beyond the end lines Of
the claim or the end lines continued,
whether by dip or otherwise or be-
yond the end lines of the claim, or the
side lines in any manner than by the
dip of the lode. The revised statutes
of the United States, section 2319, reads
as follows:
'.All valuable mineral deposits in
lands belonging to the United States,
both surveyed and unsurveyed. are
hereby declared to be free and open to
exploration and purchase and the lands
in which they are found to occupation
and purchase by citizens of the United
States and those who have declared
their intentention to become such, un-
der regulations prescribed BY law and
according to the local customs or rules
of miners in the several mining dis
tricts, 30 far as the same are applicable
and not inconsistent with the laws Of
the United States"
A patent for any land claimed and
located for valuable deposits may be
obtained in the following manner:
Any person, association or corpora