The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-04-01
MINING REGULATIONS
INDIAN RESERVATIONS
INTERESTING TO PROSPECTUS
AND OTHERS SEEKING
MINERAL RIGHTS.

j. r. Jones, of the Pnited States
bureau of mines, gives the following
digest Of the law governing mining To-
cations on Indian reservations:
Section 20 Of the Indian appropria-
ton act of June 80. 1918, authorize.
the location of mining claims for met
alliferous minerals on such land with
in Indian reservations as the secretary
of the interior may designate. Up tc
date the secretary has designated as
being opened to such locations certain
parts Of the following reservations:
Arizona-Moqui Indian reservation
Salt River Indian reservation, San
Carlos Indian reservation, Walapai
Indian reservation, Fort Apache In
dian reservation, Western Navajo In
dian reservation.
Arizona and New Mexico-San Juan
Indian reservation, Navajo Indian res
ervation, Hoopa Valley Indian reserva- .
ton, Tule River Indian reservation, Fit.
Yuma Indian reservation, Morongo In
dian reservation.
Idaho-F'ort Hall Indian reservation,
Nez Perez Indian reservation CFort
Lapwai SCHOOL,.
Montana-Rocky Boy Indian reser-
walton, Tongue River reservation.
Nevada-Pyramid Lake Indian res
ervatiOn (Nevada SCHOOL,, Western
ShoshOne Indian reservation
New MeXico-Mescalero Indian res
ervation, Pueblo Bonito Indian reser-
walton.
Oregon-warm Springs Indian res
ervation.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Indian reser-
walton, Neat Bay Indian reservation.
Making Locations.
Locations are to be made in the
same manner as a location would be
made on public lands under the mining
law, but within sixty days after MAX
ing the location it should be recorded
with the superintendent in charge of
the reservation. The location may be
held for one year only and, during that
time if the locator desires to continue
his mining operations he should ap-
ply to the superintendent for a lease. !
The lessee will have the right to
mine only within the exterior bound
aries of the leased land; in other
words, no extralateral right will attach
to any location or lease.
In continuity with the mining laws, /
individual placer locations will be linn
tied to twenty acres, those for two per-
sons to forty acres, and a claim of an
association consisting of eight or more
persons to 100 acres. If on surveyed /
land, they must be located in conform
ity to the legal subdivisions of the sur
vey; if on unsurveyed land, they must /
be marked in the same manner as lode |
locations, but shall conform aus nearly /
as practicable to what would be pub
lie land surveys and the rectangular
subdivisions OF such surveys.
Before a lease is granted covering
any location, the claim must be sur
veyed by United States deputy min
eral surveyor.
Low Royalty Is Paid.
Each lessee will pay a royalty on
production computed on the net value
Of the output of the mfnrals at the
mine. This royalty will not be less
than five per cent, but in view of the
impossibility of fixing in advance by
regulation the exact royalty to be i'm
posed upon the different minerals
found, the royalty governing each lease
will be fixed and determined prior to
the issuance of the lease and incor-
porated to the issuance of the lease
and Incorporated therein. The term
met value of the output of the min
erals at the mine" is construed to
mean the gross value of the ores, less
the cost of the mining said ores, the &
cost of concentration, of handling, of [
transportation. of shipping from the G
mouth of the mine to the works where
the ore is treated, and the cost of mill
ing, reducing, or smelling. Cost of
mining said ore" covers only the cost
of mining the ore produced and
brought out of the mine during the :
month. and does not include cost Of
Of preliminary workings
or the cost of the mining plant. n
In addition to THE royalty on pro- n
duction the lessee will be required to /
pay an advance annual rental of % n
cents per acre for the first year, so I
cents per acre for the second, third,
fourth and fifth years, respectively, Il
and 81 per acre for each year there a
after, the rental for any one year to n
be credited against the royalties as Il
the accrue for that year; and to ex g
pend annually not less than 500 in
development work for mining claim C
located or leased in the same manner @
as required under the mining laws Of V
the United States. o
Ground Limitation. o
Lessees will be permitted to use not a
to exceed forty acres Of unoccupied il
land for the purpose Of camp site. v
milling, smelling and refining works. a
Or for other purposes connected with I
the development of the leased land. An c
annual charge Of not less than 81 per Z
acre will be made for such permit. [
Lessees will be required to carry on
mining operations to the fullest prac- 2