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

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taking it's course within the boundar-
les of nelghboring mine, the own
er was required TO select one of the
branches as his principal vein which
he could follow into his neighbor's
ground. Gamboa notes that these
regulations conform to the practice In
1.-THE mines of Germany.
The ordinance of 1888 materially
changed the Spanish mining law. Ar
ticIe of Title VIII states that uni
formity of size of surface claims can
not be observed underground and at
the same time equality between claim
ants preserved, for the inclination of
the vein with the plane of the horizon
makes the amount of vein material
included within the pertenencia great
or or smaller and it may we'll happen
that when a miner after great expense
end labor reaches the boundaries of
mis- claim where the vein begins to be
rich, an adjoining owner, who has
placed himself a& that point with more
cunning than labor, may compel him
10 stop working further $50 that from
this arises one of the greatest and
most frequent causes of litigation and
dIssension among miners" AS a re-
suit, the new code provided that each
miner is entitled to 200 Castillean
varas, which are called de medir (long
or running measure) along the therad,
direction, or course of the vein taken
on a level. TO square the claim O
rectangle was formed by taking 100
varas on each or either side of the
vein, If the vein were vertical, and
this width increased as the dip of the
vein might flatten till the claim at
tanned maximum width of 200 varas
for Veins dipping at an angle of As de-
grees or less. The ordinances voiced
the opinion that by the time the YER
teal boundaries of the claim were
reached the vein will have been con-
siderably exhausted.
Article IA referring to the permis-
sion granted under the former law of
1884 to enter another mine and con-
tinue following the vein until the own
er OF the other mine can extend his
workings SO as to stop the adverse
ENTRY, states that 1t is THE most fruit
fnl cause of the bitterest lawsuits.
dissensions and disturbances among
miners and the adverse entry occurs
more often through fraud or accident
rather than as the result of merit or
industry. Therefore entering the per.
tanencia of another is prohibited.
Article Is provides for an excep-
ton, however, and If miner pursu-
Ing his working fairly and following
his vein reaches the pertenencia Of
another or discovers there vein un-
discovered by the adjoining owner.
ne shall be obliged to give such adj
Joining owner immediate notice and
thereafter share equally with him all
that he may extract from the adjoin-
ing pertenencia and for failure to give
such notice of invasion of the Others
territory he lost all right to the ore
taken out and also paid double its
value as a penalty. The other owner
could stop this invasion at any point
that his own workings encountered
the invaders
Article IL continued the right to
follow the vein into unclaimed adj
joining territory but compelled the
cenouncing Of a new adjoining perten-
eneia covering the vein.
Article II confirmed each owner to
nat portion of the vein included with
! his boundaries and specifically de-
nled the right either to the discover
er of the vein or to the owner Of tba
apex to claim it in it's whole extent
OF Wherever it may happen to be-"
rms was the mining law in force
IN Mexico from 1888 up to the time Of
discovery of gold in California. Ray
mond makes the comment that
This law is remarkable for an at
tempt to reconcile the two systems Of
square and inclined locations nv an
elaborate graduation of the size and
shape of the surface claim according
10 the dip of the vein"
lie points out the impossibilitv of
administering such law in accord
ance with the facts, for an openinp 10
yards deep was required to determine
the dip of the vein, which was then
enormously assumed to follow uni
FORM course and dip.
The ordinances of 1888 have loro
SINCE been superseded by mining
codes which have abolished the grad
tated forms of claims.
Australia.
Inc local court regulations Of NAL.
con OF March 6, 1857, provided that tho
width of claim should be 100 foot ~,
eech side of the line of the reef with
the dips and angles of all reefs with
IN the boundary and the right 70 fn,
low them to whatever distance thew
might dip. 'os
IN New South Wales the MINING
regulations of August S, 1858 nro
vided that: p'o-
Miners occupying any portion of
quartz reef ortvein shall be entitled 70
follow and work 1t in anv diroc,,on
tnat such reef or vein NAV taka