The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-07
HOW TO STAKE CLAIMS A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE ALASKA MINING LAW-FOr Your Information

MINING LAW-For Your Information QUALIFICATIONS OF LOCATOR:
 Any citizen of the United States, or person who has declared his intention to become such may make a valid location of unapproprated mineral lands in Alaska. A woman, minor, and corporation under certain circumstances), if citizens, may make valid mineral locations. A citizen of Canada has no greater rights in Alas ka, to locate mining claims, than any other alien. PREREQUISITE VALID MINING LOCATION:
 Discovery of valuable placer minerals or discovery of valuable mineral bearing rock in place must precede valid placer or lode loca- tion and without discovery, no valid location can be made. The inception of your title dates from discovery, not from the date you place your stakes
 A placer discovery may be described as a discovery of placer mineral sufficient to induce reasonably prudent person in expending fur ther labor or money in its development and ex- ploration.
 A lode discovery must be discovery of mineral bearing rock in place as distinguished from mineralized float or slide
 MARKING BOUNDARIES (Placer Claims)
 A post not less than three feet high and 4 inches in diameter should be placed at each cor ner and angle of the location. These posts should be numbered consecutively from the Number post Gnitial posD and on each post should be marked the name of the claim, name or nam es of locators and date of location. location notice should be written on or attached to the initial post showing (a) date of discovery (b) date of location Co name of claim (d) name or names of locators (e) number of feet in length and width claimed C) and description of the claim with reference to some natural monument object sufficient to identify it. Where timber is not available for posts the corners and angles should be marked by piles of stone with the same markings.
 Boundary lines between posts should be clearly marked on the surface of the ground that they may be easily traced. Boundary lines between posts are presumed to be straight lin es though the surface markings between posts may vary sonwhat from straight line which is always the shortest distance between two posts.
 MARKING BOUNDARIES Gode Claims)
 The initial post with location notice thereon must be placed at or near the place of discov- cry. End staKes should be placed in the middle of the vein and at the four corners of the claim. Your three end stakes should be in line, end lines should be parallel to each other, and should be, as nearly as possible at right angles to the course of the vein. You are allowed to locate 1900 feet along the course of the vein and 300 feet each side of the center line thereof. Boundaries should be clearly marked as in plac- CT locations.
 RECORDING
 AM placer and lode claims should be record ed in the office of the recorder of the mining district wherein such locations made with in 90 days after the date of location.
 SIZE OF PLACER LOCATIONS
 Single placer claims shall not exceed 20 acres and shall not exceed 1920 feet in length (l32O 66O).
 uength not material when locating frac- ton between two senior locations).
 Association Placer Claims shall in no case exceed 160 acres and shall not exceed 2640 feet in length (Maximum Association would be 2640 2640).
 You may locate for yourself or have locat- ed for you by attorney each month not to ceed two twenty acre claims in any mining district which may be two single locations, two twenty y-acre units In different associations, or single claim and one unit in association. LOCATION BY POWER OF ATTORNEY
 Powers of Attorney must be in writing, wit messed by two witnesses, acknowledged before an officer authorized to take acknowledgements and recorded in the mining district where it is under. Powers of Attorney become void two years after their date of execution and no valid location may be made under such power of at