The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-11-16

kaown line OF the reef or in case the
position OF the reef (yein) was not
sufficiently known. an arbitrary point
was selected and from this base line
right angled lines were extended out
In the direction of the dip of the vein.
This method OF defining boundaries
within which the miner could work il
almost identical with the plan that
ives later adopted on the Comstock
lode for the settlement Of disputes
over boundaries.
in 1852 the regulations were altered
so that claim had width of 100
yards and the owner was entitled to
all veins found therein, instead of one
Elm only as under the former act, and
cnuld follow any vein into unoccupied
ground. In 1855 the system of verti-
cal boundaries was adopted because
the extra lateral system was found
to lead to disputes"
In western Australia under existing
law, individual leases are granted of
areas necessary to work the vein to
depth Of 5000 feet, and IL the min
eral is gold the length along the out
crop of the vein shall not exceed 50
chains, and If mineral other than gold
the distance along the outcrop shall
not exceed 80 chains. This right to
mine in depth is virtually equivalent
to the exercise of an extra lateral
privilege.
Rhodesia.
All property in minerals and min
Ing rights in Rhodesia has been
granted by the crown to the British
South Africa company The system
Of mining law in force there was
adopted in 1908 and Is largely copied
from the American law. A reef claim
is a parallelogram $50 feet long on
tne course of the vein with a width
OF 600 feet at right angles to the
length. A block is a group of not to
exceed 10 contiguous claims, thus
forming a parallelogram 1900 by 600
feet, the exact size of a lode claim UNI
der American law. The extra lateral
right is defined in the ordinance to be
TIE right of following a reef on its
dip in any block beyond the limits of
the vertical block. The course of a
reef is defined to be line on the sur
face marking the intersection of the
center of the reef with such surface.
If the reef were blind, that is, situated
below the surface, the points where it
approached closest to the surface We're
projected vertically upward. This is
the course of the apex or lode line of
the American law.
The miner had the extra lateral
right of pursuit of such portions of
his discovery reef on its dip outside
the limits of his vertical block as are
comprised between vertical planes in
definitely extended and passing
through the end lines of his block"
British Columbia.
The various provinces of Canada
nave adopted the vertical boundary
system of mining law but British Col
ulnbia in 1891 passed mineral act
Section 81 of which provided that
1.-The lawful holders of mineral
claims shall have the exclusive right
of possession of all the surface in
cluded within the lines of their loca-
tlons, and of all veins, lodes and
lodges throughout their entire depth,
the top or apex of which lies inside
Of such surface lines extended down
ward vertically, although such veins,
lodes or lodges may so far depart
from a perpendicular in their course
downward as to extend outside the
vertical side lines of such surface To-
cations, ETC."
The section also provided that if a
location were laid crosswise of vein
instead of along it's course the locator
secured only so much of the vein or
lode as 1t crossed and the side lines
became the end lines for the purpose
Of defining extra lateral rights. A To-
cation was deemed to be laid crosswise
when the angle made by the center
line of the location and the general
course of the vein was greater than
As degrees.
This section of the act was repealed
by Section of the amendment act of
1892, which provided that "the owner
of mineral claim shall be entitled to
all minerals which may lie within his
claim, but he shall not be entitled to
mine outside the boundary lines of his
claim continued vertically downward"
Subsection B preserves rights of To-
cations under the former acts.
AS a result of this brief period dur
ing which the extra lateral right was
sanctioned, rights to a number of
such mining claims became vested.
Tie British Columbia reports indi-
cate that several cases have arisen
where these rights are involved.
Sufficient examples have been pre-
sented to indicate that there has been
a powerful tendency at work based on
fundamental reason and natural law
to segregate the mineral bearing vein
from the surface, and to grant the vein
10 the miner. Instead of combining him
to inflexible surface boundaries ex-
tended downward vertically, the ten
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