Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-12-20
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR

PATENT
In the United States District Land Office
at at LEWISTON eyos1 Idaho December g. 1928
In the Matter of the Application of Thomas
H. Minear and Charles q. Shepard, as
Trustees of the Idaho Comstock Owners,
no Comstock Group, Mineral Survey No.
5000. Lewiston Land District.
Public notice is hereby given in the
above entitled matter by the undersigned,
County, State of Washington, and Charles
.. Shepard, of Seattle, King County,
State Of Washington. Jointly as Trustees
of the Idaho Comstoek Owners. an I'M
whereof and benefciaries Of said Trust
are said Thomas H. Minear individually,
his wife Cleora II. Minear. and said
Charles Il. Shepard individually, having
exhibited In an official plat of such sur
yey, their thirteen lode mining claims
hereinbelow mentioned, comprising a con-
tiguous body of United States public land
mineral in character and subject to entry
in the Lewiston District Land Office at
Lewiston, Idaho, and which claims are
together known WI and and designated in said
plat thereof as the Idaho Comstock Group,
have made and filed application to the
undersigned, in said District Land Of
to them as such Trustees of a United
States Patent for said Idaho Comstock
group of claims; that said applicants as
Trustees as aforesaid are in the lawful
possession of all of said claims, for said
Idaho Comstock Owners, and that said
Trustees and all of said beneficial owners
are citizens Of the United States and res
idents and citizens of the State
lode claims are all situated
upon and comprise only mineral land of
the United States, unsurveyed except by
said Mineral Survey No. 5000, and are
all situated in the Dixie Mining District
in Idaho County, State of Idaho, within
said Lewiston Land District, and within
the limits of the Nez Perez National For
est; that said claims are severally named
and known as follows and the records OF
the original notices of location and of
the latest amended notices of location
thereof respectively are to be found In
the office Of the recorder for said Idaho
County at Grangeville, Idaho, in the
books of Mining Claims in the books and
at the pages thereof respectively next be-
low set forth as follows; toWlt; CoIhstoch1
u. Claim (named Hillside in the original
notice of lOcatiOn), original notice record
ed in book 8 of Mining Claims at page
IT'S, latest amended notice recorded IN
Book 60 of Mining Claims at page "a
Comstock X claim original notice, Book
5S at page 20, latest amended notice, BOOK
60 at page IS; COmstock | claim, original
notice, book % at page 52l, latest amend
ed notice, Book 60 at page 50; Comstock
claim sometimes otherwise known as
Comstock claim, original notice, Book
9 at page 357 latest amended notice, BOOK
go at page 66; Comstock ID claim, original
notice, Book 81 at page 81, latest amend
ed notice, Book go at page 6S; Comstock
H claim, original notice, Book 50 at page
399 latest amended notice, Book 6O at
page SO; Comstock B claim, original no
tice. Book so at page 315. latest amend
ed notice. Book 60 at page 20;
Monroe claim, original notice,
book at page III, latest amended notice,
book go at page IL; Comstock q claim,
original notice, Book 50 at page 39S. latest
amended notice, Book 60 at page q; In
dependence claim, original notice, book
at page 80. latest amended notice Book
go at page IA Comstock G claim, original
notice, Book 80 at page 316, latest amend
ed notice, Book 60 at page 70; Comstoek
It claim original notice, Book 81 at page
397 latest amended notice, Book go NJ
page rs: and Comstock J claim (named
Pinchout claim In the original notice OF
location), original notice, Book 10 at page
10, latest amended notice, DOCK oO at
page IT, in said Office.
THAT In their said application for pat
ent said Trustees show that they ac-
quired, by a chain of conveyances from
the original locators of said several claims
TO themselves as such Trustees. the pos
sessorv title to all of said thirteen lode
mining claims: and they have fled with
their said application an. abstract OF thelr
title thereto. which sets forth sald suhury
conveyances in more. detail ana IL re-
ferred 10 I'm said application.
And notice is hereby further given, that
said Idaho Comstock group and SAID thlr-
teen lode mining claims composing IL are
more fully described In the Official neld
notes of said survey thereof, a. copy. OF
which has been filed with and by refer- |
ence made part of said application 10