Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-12-27
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR

PATENT
In the United States District Land Office
at Lewiston, Idaho, December 6, 1923.
No. 07951.
I'm the Matter of the Application of Thomas
II. Minear and Charles Il. Shepard, as
Trustees of the Idaho ComstOck Owners,
for a United States Patent for the Ida
no. Comstock Group, Mineral Survey No.
5000. Lewiston Land District.
Public notice is hereby given in the
above entitled matter by the undersigned,
that Thomas III. Minear, of Tacoma, Pierce
County, State of Washington. and Charles
Il. Shepard of Seattle, King County,
state of Washington, Jointly as Trustees
Of the Idaho ComstOck Owners, an I'M
Incorporated association, the members
whereof and benefciaries of said Trust
are said Thomas III. Minear individually.
Charles L. Shepard individually, having
procured to he duly surveyed, and to be
exhibited in an official plat of such sur
vey, their thirteen lode mining claims
tiguOus body of United States public land
mineral in character and subject to entry
I'm the Lewiston District Land Office at
Lewiston, Idaho, and which claims are
survey and its field notes and in said
Mat thereof as the Idaho COmstock Group,
lave made and filed application to the
undersigned. in said District Land Of
fee at Lewiston. Idaho, for the issuance
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
Of Washington; that said thirteen
lode claims are all situated
upon and comprise only mineral land or
the United States. unsurveyed except by
said Mineral Survey No. 5000, and are
ill situated in the Dixie Mining District
I'm 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 or
the original notices of location ana OF
he latest amended notices or locatlon
he office of the recorder for said ldaho
County at Grangeville, Idaho, IN the
hooks of Mining Claims In the BOOKS ana
ut the pages thereof respectively next De
low set forth as follows. towit: Comstoek
II. Claim (named Hillside in the original
notice of lOcatiOn). original notice record
cd in book of Mining Claims ar page
17S, latest amended NOTICE RECORDED "a.
C0mstock claim. original notice. BOOK
e Mt mage %, latest amended NOTICE. DOCK
GO Mt page 7S: Comstock | claim, orlglnal
notice. book 80 at page 52l, latest amend
oil notice Book go at page So: COmstock
claim (sometimes otherwise known as
comstock A claim. original notice, BOOK
& at page 357. latest amended notlce. booH
60 ut page &C., COmstOck y claim original
notice. Book 80 at page 317. latest amend
cd notice Book 60 at page 6S; Comstock
" claim. original notice. BOOK % at en pag -
200 latest amended notice. Book 80 at
mage go: Comstock claim. original no.
fice. Book 80 Mt page 315. latest amend
cd notice Book 60 ut page iU'
Monroe claim original NOTICE
hook 3 at page TT latest amended NOTICE
hook 60 at page II; Comstock g claim,
original notice Book 80 ut page 39S latest
amended notice. Book go at page e; lho
denendence claim. original notice BOOK
~ nore 90 latest amended notice. Book
IN If mage "a: Comstock G claim original
notice. Bool, 80 AZ page 318, latest amend
cd notice Rock 90 at pare 70; Comstock
II claim. original notice. Book y at mage
2o7 LATEST amended notice, Book ~ n,
noge 76: and Comstock J claim tnameu
pinchout claim in the original NOTICE OF
Iocation). original notice. Book 10 at page
10. latest amended notice. DOCK oo ut
no 70 n In said office. a., ~.
THAT in their said application for pat
emf said Trustees show that thev &c
cuired nv q chain of cOnveyances IRON
Tho original locators Of said several claIlns
60 +bomseIves MS such Trustees. the DOS
sossorv titIe TO all of said thirteen loue
mining claims and they have nlen w lLn
thoir said application an abstract OF tn 1I
title thereto. which sets forth sal1 Slnu 10y
convevances in more dettan anu -
forrad 70 In said application -.
Ana notice Is hereby further given. tnat
eoid idaho Comstock group and said tnlr
teen lode mining claims composing W
80 f,,iI,. described n tho official nero
un,os ~ said survev thereof n copy. OF
witch has heen fled with and by refer-
enee made a part Of said applcation III