The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-07

 combined length of the four locations would be l2 miles 660 feet wide. No matter how many powers of attorney you have and you can- not locate over ia miles of creek Tn any one month. By using additional powers of attorney you can secure greater width but no greater length.
 There appears to be no limit to the number of lode claims you may locate in any month or mining district or under powers of attorney, pro- vided always that every such location IS support ed by bona fide discovery of mineral in place, and the other elements necessary to make a valid location.
 ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LABOR OPlacer)
 Under the law passed by the 1885 Territorial Legislature at least one hundred dollars worth of labor or money must be expended each year for every 20 acres or fraction thereof contained in every placer location made on and after that date No assessment labor is necessary during the fractional year in which the lection is made (to July lst following). failure to perform the annual assessment labor in any year that it is required constitutes forfeiture. Assessment lab or must be fully performed before noon on the First day of each July, and if not fully per formed before that time, any person may re- locate the claim as if no prior location had ever been made. (The law allowing resumption of lab  See Act of Congress, March 2, 1907 which has never been repealed)
 ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LABOR Lode Claims)
 The same rule applies to Lode Claims to the extent that it is safe rule to go by, in connec- tion with lode claims now in existence.
 While the matter has never been before the Courts it is believed that with the repeal of the Wickersham Act in 1885, all mining claims heretofore located were thereafter and are now, with regard to annual assessment labor, subject to the general mining laws of the United States which require that but $l0000 work and labor be performed upon mining claim each year; in other words all claims located prior to March l4l935, whether 20-acre claims or association claims require but Sl0o.o0 s;oc.h of work or lab or to be expended thereon for it's benefit to fully satisfy the requirement of annual assess ment labor as by law required
 The Territorial Law of 1885 does not at tempt to regulate annual assessment labor on claims located prior to its passage It might be argued that claims located under the provisions of the Wickersham Act must comply with the Wickersham Law as 10 assessment labor but the ground for such contention seems far fetched. AFFIDAVITS OF ANNUAL LABOR
 It is not necessary 10 record affidavits of annual labor but ii is a good policy to do so Facts alleged in such afidavits are presumed in law to be true and can be discredited only by preponderance of evidence to disprove them.
 If you fail to record affidavits of annual lab or, the burden of proof rests upon you to prove that the said assessment labor was actually per formed as required by law. An adverse claim ant is in much better position to contest your rights where affidavit appears on the records. RIGHTS ACQUIRED UNDER A
 VALID PLACER LOCATION
 Under valid placer location acquires the exclusive right 10 the use and possession of the surface of the clam, everything thereon and everything hereunder, except that he acquires no right to lodes, ledges veins known to exist at the time of his placer location Where any such known lode, ledge. or vein is not appropriated at the time of making the placer location, and it, or part thereof is within the boundaries of the placer location, separate lode location should be made by the placer locator to fully protect all his rights
 If at the time of making the placer location known lode, ledge vein exists within the boundaries of such location, the placer locator has the right to prevent stranger from pros pectng within his location for such unknown lode or mineral bearing rock.
 One who relocates an abandoned or for feited placer lode claim acquires title to any and all permanent improvements made by quires title to the ground. When one abandons or forfeits his rights under mining location, all of his rights to the claim revert to the govern ment, and thereafter to later bona ide locator
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