Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-10-25
RESERVATIONS OPEN AFTER
 NOVEMBER lST 1919

This office is in receipt of the fol lowing communication concerning the location of mineral locations cn Indian reservations:
 DEPARTMENT OF THE INFERIOR
 Washington, D. C., Sept. 20, 1919. act of June 30, 1919 lPub., No. 3, auth prizes the location of mining claims by citizens of the United States on unal- lotted lands of Indian reservations, af- ter such lands shall have been declared by the Secretary of the Interior to be subject to exploration for the discovery of gold, silver, copper and other Valu- able metalliferous minerals. Should be found locators have the privilege within one year of entering into lease covering the land located. In accordaE- ce herewith hereby declare the follow ing described unallotted Indian lands subject to exploration on and after s2 o'clock m. on Saturday, November l, 1919, and, with the exception of such land therein as may contain springs, water holes, or other bodies of w.t,er, subject to location and lease:
 In this list that follows are inclu !ed the portions of the following in Ari- zona, the Moqui, the Salt River, ,he san Carlos, the Colorado. the Fort Apacre, ern Navajo, all of the San Juan and all of the Navajo.
 To carry this provision of Jaw !rto effect the following general regulations
 1. From time to time unallottcl land on Indian reservations within he States named in the section above quot ed will be declared subject to cxplvra- tion. The land will be opened only af- tr reports have been received from tae superintendent or other officer Tn charg e \ Thereafter called the officer in charge) as to the desirability of such action and of the part. if any, which should b. re- served in the interests of the Indians. Anyone desiring to prospect on any psr- ticular reservation may obtain ,nforlna. /. tlon from the officer in charge thereof as to whether it is subject to lease. \ 2. All persons prospecting pn unaj- lotted Indian land under these reguia- tions, or who may acquire rights ,of oc- cupancy of such lands ths,eundet, ir the use of the lands, are oounl to a strict compliance with all the laws of the United States prohibiting the intro duction of intoxicants into the Indian country and with the laws of the United States and the regulations of the De- partment of the Interior prescribed hereunder in respect to trade inter- course with the Indian tribes.
 3. Should valuable metalliferous miri- erals be found the section contempla ses the location of mining claims in rEe same manner as mining claims ato To- ted States. Should the locator fail to file duplicate copy of the location no- tice with the officer in charge of the land within 50 days or fail within one JCdi thClSdltCI lo Hldhc through the officer in charge to the Secretary of the Interior for a lease Of the land he will thereby forfeit all pref. erence right to a lease. Any locator states mining laws and the regulations of the General Land Office pre- escribed hereunder as to the location pf min ing claims will also forfeit all prefer ence right to lease.
 The regulations of the General Land Office provide in effect tfat iio iole claim can exceed parrallelogram 1,e00 feet in length by 600 feet in width, but whether surface ground of that width can be taken depends upon the local regulations, or State or Territorial law S in force in the several mining districts; i; { that no such local regulations. or State or Territorial laws shall limit I vein or a lode claim to less than 800 feet along the course thereof, whether the location is made by one or more persons, nor can surface rights be limited 10 lees than 50 feet in width; that all records of mining locations shall contain the name or names of the locators, tha date Nof location. and such a descrii tton of the claim or claims located by refer ence to some natural object Ur pcCinan- ent monument as will identify the claim; that no lode claim shall be located untl! within the limits of the claim; that rhe claimant should, therefore, prior to To- eating his claim, unless the vein can be traced upon the surface, sink a shaft VI run d tuIHcl UT uTlll lO u JulllcltHt depth therein to discover and develop a mineral bearing vein, lode or crevice, and determine if possible the general course of such vein in eve:y direction from the point of discovery, by which direction he will be governed in mar ing the boundaries of his claim on the surface; that his location notice should give the course and distance as nearly as practicable from the discovery sha,t on the claim to some permaIiant, well. known points or objects. such, for in stance as stone monuments, blazed trees, the confluence of streams, point Of :n- tersection of well-known gulcnes, ravin- es, or roads, etc., which may be in the immediate vicinity; that the claimant should also state the names of adjoin- ing claims or if none adioio,ng the rel ative positions of the nearest claims {, that he should drive a post or erect a monument of stone at each corner of the surface ground and at the point Of dis covery or discovery shaft should fix a post, stake or board. upon which should be designated the name of the lode, the name or names of the locators, the num- Der of feet claimed and in which dir ection from the point of discovery, it being essential that ihe location notice filed for record should state whether the entire claim of 1.500 feet is taken on one side of the point of discovery or whether it is partly upon one and partly upon the other; and if the latter, how many feet are claimed upon each Sioe r of the discovery point.
 | W mine only within the exterior boundaries of the leased lands and to lines drawn vertically downward therefrom. The provision of the general mining laws that the locator of mining claim shall have the exclusive right, to all veins, lodes, or ledges throughout their en- tire depth, the tip or apex of which lies inside the surface lines, extending downward vertically, does not apply to these leases, since the act limits tine application of the general mining laws to the manner of the location of mining claims.
 5. Individual placer. claims are limit ed by the general mining laws to not more than 20 acres to one person, 40 acres for two, and 160 acres for an aSso- citation of eight or more persons. To- cations, if upon surveyed lan1 must be located in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the survey. If made up- on unsurveyed land the locations must be marked in the same manner as lode locations, but shall conform as nearly as practicable to what would be public land surveys and the rectangular sub divisions thereof.
 6. Before a lease will be granted cov- ering a lode mining claim, or placer claim, on unsurveyed land, It win be necessary for the locator, at his ex- pense to have the claim surveyed by a United States surveyor. The survey