The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-08-07
j. S. LAW RELATIVE
TO TUNNEL SITES
RIGHT TO BLIND LEADS RESERV
ED IF TUNNEL IS WORKED
IN GOOD FAITH.

In connection with probable long
mining tunnel. double track, which
would give the lowest practical tunnel
opening for upper Nine Mile and Sun
set ores and insure Northern Pacific
freight traffic, explained in some detail
in last weeks Miner, the following
federal mining law with reference to
tunnels and tunnel sites. and federal
regulations hereunder, will be read
with Interest;
Section 1928. Where a tunnel is
run for the development of a vein or
lode, or for the discovery of mines, the
owners of such tunnel shall have the
right of possession of all veins or odcs
within 5000 feet from the face of such
tunnel on the line thereof, not previ-
ously known to exist. discovered in
such tunnel, to the same extent as if
discovered from the surface, and To-
cations on the line of such tunnel Of
veins or lodes not appearing on the
surface, made by other parties after
the commencement of the tunnel, and
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with reasonable diligence. shall be in
valid, but failure to prosecute the
work on the tunnel for six months
shall be considered as an abandonment
on the line of such tunnel"
Regulations Under Above Law.
"16. The effect of section 1928, Re-
vised Statutes is to give the proprie-
tors of a mining tunnel run in good
faith the possessory right to 1900 feet
of any blind lodes cut, discovered, or
intersected by such tunnel, which
We're not previously known TO exist
within 5000 feet from the face or point
of commencement of such tunnel, and
to prohibit other parties, after the
commencement of the tunnel from
prospecting for and making locations
of lodes on the line thereof and within
said distance of 5000 feet, unless such
lodes appear upon the surface or were
previously known to exist. The term
face" as used in said section, is con-
strued and held to mean the first
working face formed in the tunnel.
and to signify the point at which the
tunnel actually enters cover, it being
from this point that the 5000 feet are
to be counted upon which prospecting
is prohibited as aforesaid.
IL To avail themselves of the |
benefits of this provision of law, the
proprietors of a mining tunnel will be
required, at the time they enter cover
as aforesaid to give proper notice of !
their tunnel location by erecting a =
substantial post, board or monument |
at the face or point of commencement
thereof, upon which should be posted .
a good and sufficient notice, giving
the names of the parties or company
claiming the tunnel right the actual
or proposed course or direction of the
tunnel, the height and width thereof,
and the course and distance from
such face or point of commencement
to some permanent well known objects
In the vicinity by which to fix and de-
termine the locus in manner hereto
fore set forth applicable to locations
Of veins or lodes, and at the time of
posting such notice they shall, in or
Ter that miners or prospectors may
be enabled to determine whether or ,
not they are within the lines of the Il
establish the boundary lines
hereof by stakes or monuments plac-
ed along such lines at proper intervals, {
% the terminus of the 5000 feet from {
he face or point of commencement of
he tunnel, and the lines so marked :
viii define and govern as to specific
boundaries within which prospecting
or lodes not previously known to ey-
st is prohibited while work on the
is being prosecuted with reas-
nable diligence.
rs. full and correct copy OF ),
UGH notice Of location defining the
unnel claim must be filed for record u
With the mining recorder of the dis ?
riot to which notice must be attached q
he sworn statement or declaration of /
he owners. claimants or projectors Of L
uch tunnel, setting forth the facts in J.
ne case; stating the amount expended 8
y themselves and their predecessors Il
l interest in prosecuting work there a
n, the extent of the work performed, ,s
nd that 1t is bona tide their intention Il
ated and described with reasonable p
iligence for the development of :,
Elm or lode. or for the discovery of n
lines, or both, as the case may be. al
his notice of location must be duly az
'corded, and, with the said sworn -
atement attached, kept on the re-
riders files for future reference
SOUTHERN OREGON GOLD. -