Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-12-13
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR


In the United States District Land Office
at Lewiston, Idaho, December 6, 1923.
No. 07951.
In the Matter Of the Application Of Thomas
III. Minear and Charles e. Shepard, as
Trustees Of the Idaho Comstock Owners
for United States Patent for the Ida
ho- Comstock Group, Mineral Survey No
1000, Lewiston Land District.
Public notice is hereby given in the
above entitled matter by the undersigned,
that Thomas II. Minear, OF Tacoma Pierce
County, State Of Washington. and Charles
p. Shepard. Of Seattle, King County,
of the Idaho Comstock Owners, an un-
Incorporated association, the members
whereof and beneficiaries Of said Trust
are said Thomas III. Minear individually,
his wife Cleora II. Minear. and said
Charles Il. Shepard individually, having
procured to be duly surveyed, and to be
exhibited in an official plat of such sur
vey, 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 and designated in said
survey and its field notes and in said
plat thereof as the Idaho COmstock Group,
undersigned. in said District Land Of
flee at Lewiston, Idaho. for the issuance
to them as such Trustees Of n United
States Patent for said Idaho Comstock
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
or Washington; that said thirteen
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
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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 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 towit: Comstock
70. Claim (named Hillside in the original
notice Of location), original notice record
ed in book Of Mining Claims at page
178, latest amended notice recorded in
Book 60 of Mining Claims at page "a;
Comstock X claim, original notice, Book
SO at page 20, latest amended notice, book
go at page rs; Comstock / claim, original
notice, book 80 at page 521, latest amend
ed notice, Book 60 at page 60; Comstock
Comstock A claim, original notice, Book
6 at page 357, latest amended notice, Book
go at page 66; Comstock d claim, original
notice. Book 81 at page 317, latest amend
ed notice, Book 60 at page 6S; Comstock
II claim, original notice, Book 81 at page
800. latest amended notice, Book 60 at
page 60; Comstock b claim, original no
tice, Book 50 at page 3l5, latest amend.
ed notice, Book 90 at page 90;
Monroe claim, original notice,
book 8 at page III. latest amended notice,
book 60 at page II; Comstock G claim,
original notice. Book 30 at page 39S. latest
amended notice. Book 60 at page z; In.
dependence claim, original notice, book 3
at page 80. latest amended notice, Book
notice. Book % at page 316, latest amend
ed notice Book go at page 20; ComstOck
II claim, original notice, Book 81 at page
1877 latest amended notice, Book 90 at
page 78: and Comstock J claim named
Pinchout claim in the original notice OF
locatiOn), original notice. Book 10 at page
10, latest amended notice, book 90 at
page II, in said office.
That in their said application Tor pat
ent said Trustees show that they ac-
quired by n chain of conveyances from
fhe original locators of said several claims
TO themselves as such Trustees, the pos
sessory title to all of said thirteen lode
mining claims: and they have filed with
their said application an abstract or thelr
title thereto, which sets forth s9id sunury
conveyances in more detail ana is re-
ferred to in said application.
And notice is hereby further given, that
said Idaho Comstock group and SAID thlr-
teen lode mining claims composing ~ are
more fully described in the official heid
notes OF said survey thereof, copy OF
which has been filed with and by rerer-
ence made a part OF said application In
said Registers office at lewiston iuano'